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...
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All the cool animals are predators. Grass eaters have lots of retards amongst them. Some are cool…
It’s almost as good as Chatsworth Osbourne, Jr.
LOL!
If we kill off all the liberals, we can still eat burgers.
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.
AH ditch this ,,!,,
Rabbits eat grass and make meat.
Are they planet killers?
They can have my burger when they pry it from my cold, ketchup-stained hands...
Cows are vegan, hamburger comes from cows, eat a vegan.
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 ?
For Mr. Jonathan Chadwick:
I’ll eat my burger and fart in your face, thank you!!!!!!!
Don't care.
And if greenhouse gases kill off every leftard, then all the better.
Let's get'r done.
Yo Jonny. Why don’t you live your goofy life and let the rest of us live ours. Get a job, idiot.
Exactly. Just an awesome mushroom & swiss last night at the Train Station restaurant in Tamaqua, Pa.
If the left wants to eat bugs and not eat meat, more power to them. Just don’t force it on me.
3 primary gasses (Nitrogen, Oxygen, Argon) make up make up 99.964% of earth’s atmosphere, everything else (including CO2 is a trace gas).
“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.
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.
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