Its start becaming modern to stopping eating meat because this will help the planet but I wonder how? Also, why still eating animal products is ok but only meat is not ok for the envoirement?
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Think about everything you’ve eaten in your life between when you were born and mature. Consider the weight of it: you’ve eaten many hundreds of times more in that time than your body weight. Farmed animals are bred and given hormones to mature faster, but they are still going to eat considerably more food than what they produce in slaughter. I don’t know what the ESG cause is, but animal products are also inefficient in the same manner, they just don’t require the (immediate) death of an animal for the product to be produced.
Growing meat requires a lot more calories in the form of animal feed then you get from the meat. Depending on the type of meat it can be 2 times as much up to 10 times as much. So in the worst case you might need 10 square feet of corn to make the same amount of food in the form of meat as you would do with 1 square foot of corn when eating it directly. The extra calories is released as carbon dioxide, methane and also causes other environmental issues in addition to the increased land use. But maybe more important the animal feed is being processed and transported in order to be used which in most cases will take fossil fuel. When you reduce the amount of meat in your diet you reduce the amount of fossil fuel used to make your meals, the land use and reduce other environmental footprints.
For animal products other then meat a similar logic applies. The chicken need food to lay eggs and the cows need food to make milk. And most of these calories is spent by the chicken and cows rather then end up in the products. But other animal products are byproducts from the slaughter industry and therefore would be made anyway as long as we have a meat industry. So the general advice is to reduce your consumption of meat, milk and eggs as these are the worst issues.
You can either feed people with 300kg of corn or feed that corn to a cow every month for 18 months to get 300 kg of beef to eat.
It takes more resources to grow 5400kg of corn than 300kg and thats before even looking qt the emissions the cows themselves make.
Just adding to the other comments, namely that vegetarian carbon footprint is less than “omnivore” but more than vegan.
Save the planet=go vegan,
Save the planet a little bit=go vegetarian
the total carbon emissions of people following a vegetarian diet are on average 22% lower than those who eat meat frequently. In the case of vegans, their greenhouse gas emissions are on average 37% lower than those who eat meat frequently.
https://theplanetapp.com/carbon-emissions-and-type-of-diet/?lang=en#:~:text=Specifically%2C%20we%20found%20that%20the,those%20who%20eat%20meat%20frequently.
Commercial cattle farming is the biggest agricultural contributor to global warming/climate change, due to the amount of cleared land it requires to raise and feed them. Cattle farming often results in deforestation and diversion of water resources that can, and does, harm local ecosystems.
It was big news a couple years ago where massive swaths of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil were being cut down for cattle farming, most of which is being exported to China and other pacific region countries.
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