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Eating Meat Is Bad for Climate Change, and Here Are All the Studies That Prove It
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this post was submitted on 07 Jan 2024
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“Think harder”
Yup… that
Hey, I can’t speak for everyone here, but I’m eating locally sourced meat raised on an isolated island, and you chose to question that, as if you actually have any idea what goes on here.
edit: we also locally source invasive pigs that otherwise would be tearing up the landscape. And there’s a population of people that love going after the invasive feral chickens.
These guys imagine that if the cows were exterminated the emissions would go away. It's like they haven't heard of nature. The cows' niche will quickly be filled by feral deer which are exactly as bad as cows for methane
If you kill all the deer and leave the land empty of animals you still get the emissions as the grass rots in the open air (rotted by the same bacteria the cows and sheep use)
You can't save emissions by reducing cattle numbers, you can just move the emissions from "farming" to "nature"
Ikr? Like, what do they expect from us here? I’m in favor of finding ways to reduce aspects of cruel commercial industry practices in general, but they also don’t want us to humanely kill any cows, invasive deer, wild pigs and feral chickens for any reason at all? They’ll just completely overgraze the available grassland, decimate crops and orchards, tear up native tree roots in the forests, and/or shit on literally everything while causing property damage. Or just not eat them when we have to cull the population? Seems like a waste. These people just haven’t thought it all through as well as they give themselves credit for.