I know that cutting down trees to make way for agriculture is a big factor in the global decline of the environment. And I know the problem with burning fossil fuel is that it is releasing CO2 stored in ground from millions of years ago. What I don’t understand is how a cow or a chicken contributes new greenhouse emissions?
fyi I don’t really eat beef and are trying to be flexitarian so this isn’t about defending eating meat.
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Methane. If you burn a forest down you release mostly CO². Cows can convert plant matter to a lot of Methane wich is a much worse greenhouse gas.
We currently research on how to feed them in a way that makes them less “gassy”
Other than the greenhouse gases meat production also uses up a lot of water and agricultural space. If you’d only eat plants instead of growing plants and feeding them to cattle you could feed more people, or have more natural forests wich store a lot of carbon
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