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Time to ditch the burgers? Eating meat creates FOUR times more greenhouse gases than being vegan, study finds (only 7.51 years left)
Daily Mail ^ | 7/21/23 | Jonathan Chadwick

Posted on 07/21/2023 6:01:14 AM PDT by Libloather

The summer holidays are nearly here which would normally mean there's never been a better time to fire up the barbeque and line it with beef burgers.

But a new study shows you might want to swap them for meat-free alternatives if you want to do your bit to save the planet.

University of Oxford experts say eating just 100g of meat per day – less than a single burger – creates four times more greenhouse gases compared with a vegan diet.

The researchers now want to see prompt policy action from government and organisations to trigger 'dietary shifts away from animal-based foods'.

Previous studies have already suggested there are personal health benefits from ditching a meat diet, including reduced risk of heart disease.

The new study was led by experts from the Livestock, Environment and People (LEAP) project at the University of Oxford, which is working to understand the 'health, environmental, social and economic effects of meat and dairy production'.

'Our dietary choices have a big impact on the planet,' said lead author Peter Scarborough, professor of population health at Oxford's Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences and LEAP project investigator.

'Our results, which use data from over 38,000 farms in over 100 countries, show that high meat diets have the biggest impact for many important environmental indicators, including climate change and biodiversity loss.

'Cutting down the amount of meat and dairy in your diet can make a big difference to your dietary footprint.'

Scientists have long been vocal about the huge carbon footprint of humanity's love for meat, fish and dairy, especially beef.

Animal agriculture contributes to global warming because of the methane, nitrous oxide and carbon emissions of livestock and their supply chains.

What's more, deforestation to make way for space to rear cattle reduces the...

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Agriculture; Business/Economy; Conspiracy; History
KEYWORDS: beef; burgers; climatechange; con; fake; fraud; globalwarming; greenhouse; hoax; loot; scam; study; vegan; vegetables
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To: bk1000

All the cool animals are predators. Grass eaters have lots of retards amongst them. Some are cool…


21 posted on 07/21/2023 6:19:57 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: Levy78

It’s almost as good as Chatsworth Osbourne, Jr.


22 posted on 07/21/2023 6:20:06 AM PDT by .44 Special (Taimid Buacharch)
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To: Red Badger

LOL!


23 posted on 07/21/2023 6:24:46 AM PDT by Deaf and Discerning
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To: Libloather

If we kill off all the liberals, we can still eat burgers.


24 posted on 07/21/2023 6:25:40 AM PDT by CodeToad (No Arm up! They have!)
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To: Libloather

I don’t GAF. I will stick to eating cheese burgers along with beef tips over rice and a steak when I can afford one.


25 posted on 07/21/2023 6:26:28 AM PDT by sport
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To: Libloather

AH ditch this ,,!,,


26 posted on 07/21/2023 6:27:30 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Libloather

Rabbits eat grass and make meat.

Are they planet killers?


27 posted on 07/21/2023 6:28:50 AM PDT by Brian Griffin (ARTICLE I SECTION 2....The President...may require the opinion, in writing)
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To: Libloather

They can have my burger when they pry it from my cold, ketchup-stained hands...


28 posted on 07/21/2023 6:29:36 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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To: Libloather

Cows are vegan, hamburger comes from cows, eat a vegan.


29 posted on 07/21/2023 6:29:36 AM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: Libloather

I have one question for these people. If you eliminate cattle due to the “greenhouse gases”, where are these organic farmers going to get the fertilizer to grow their vegetables ?


30 posted on 07/21/2023 6:32:02 AM PDT by TheCipher ( RINO politicians in DC are the only reptiles in the world with no backbone)
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To: Libloather

For Mr. Jonathan Chadwick:

I’ll eat my burger and fart in your face, thank you!!!!!!!


31 posted on 07/21/2023 6:33:52 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: Libloather
University of Oxford experts say eating just 100g of meat per day – less than a single burger – creates four times more greenhouse gases compared with a vegan diet.

Don't care.

And if greenhouse gases kill off every leftard, then all the better.

Let's get'r done.

32 posted on 07/21/2023 6:35:04 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: Libloather

Yo Jonny. Why don’t you live your goofy life and let the rest of us live ours. Get a job, idiot.


33 posted on 07/21/2023 6:35:21 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (No more new laws until we start enforcing the crap we already have!)
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To: Da Coyote

Exactly. Just an awesome mushroom & swiss last night at the Train Station restaurant in Tamaqua, Pa.


34 posted on 07/21/2023 6:36:40 AM PDT by stevio (Fight until you die.)
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To: Libloather

If the left wants to eat bugs and not eat meat, more power to them. Just don’t force it on me.


35 posted on 07/21/2023 6:41:37 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (The Democrat Party - Dumbing Down America Since 1965.)
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To: odawg

3 primary gasses (Nitrogen, Oxygen, Argon) make up make up 99.964% of earth’s atmosphere, everything else (including CO2 is a trace gas).


36 posted on 07/21/2023 6:41:47 AM PDT by Rlsau1
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To: Libloather
I plan to use some carbon credits to offset the meat I eat.......we can start the offsets by throwing University of Oxford experts off of a bridge.
37 posted on 07/21/2023 6:42:49 AM PDT by Repeat Offender (While the wicked stand confounded, call me with Thy saints surrounded.)
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To: EEGator

“Grass eaters have lots of retards amongst them. Some are cool…“

I’ve heard a couple of people, Kevin Costner and Ted Nugent, come to mind, dressing down a doe-eyed liberal about what it takes to raise a field of vegan food, and how every living creature in that field must be killed for its production.
One death of one cow can feed hundreds. It takes hundreds if not thousands of deaths to raise a field of soybeans.


38 posted on 07/21/2023 6:43:16 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: Libloather

2050

The residents of Leftyville fear another fire season.

The local dairy farms have all been shut down.

The fields are full of tall, dry grass.

All it takes is one lightning bolt from above and severe man-made climate change will happen, causing them to have to flee their McMansion estates.

Due to zero emissions requirements, no airborne firefighting efforts will be made.


39 posted on 07/21/2023 6:44:06 AM PDT by Brian Griffin (ARTICLE I SECTION 2....The President...may require the opinion, in writing)
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To: Libloather
I'd love to film a liberal coming to my property and yelling at all the dense trees that carbon dioxide is a pollutant.


40 posted on 07/21/2023 6:44:33 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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