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Vegan Diets Have One-Fourth the Climate Impact of Meat-Heavy Diets, Study Finds
Yale Environment 360 via Yahoo ^ | July 21, 2023 | By Yale Environment 360

Posted on 07/21/2023 10:59:57 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

A plant-based diet yields one-fourth as much heat-trapping gas as a diet rich in meat, according to an exhaustive new analysis.

For the study, researchers analyzed the eating habits of more than 55,000 Britons, drawing on data from more than 38,000 farms in 119 countries to gauge the environmental impact of their diets.

The analysis found that plant-based diets produce 75 percent less heat-trapping gas, generate 75 percent less water pollution, and use 75 percent less land than meat-rich diets — those that include at least 100 grams of meat daily, the equivalent of one steak around the size of a deck of cards.

“Our dietary choices have a big impact on the planet,” Peter Scarborough, a researcher at Oxford University and lead author of the study, said in a statement. “Cutting down the amount of meat and dairy in your diet can make a big difference to your dietary footprint.”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: globalwarming; hoax; marxism; propaganda
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1 posted on 07/21/2023 10:59:57 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Fags do die younger.


2 posted on 07/21/2023 11:00:39 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Not buying it.

I just don’t believe it.

Anyone can do a *study* proving anything they want. You just ignore all the ones that don’t support your predetermined conclusion and publish the one that does.


3 posted on 07/21/2023 11:01:17 AM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

If it is from Yale, I am not smoking it.


4 posted on 07/21/2023 11:02:11 AM PDT by rovenstinez ( )
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To: EEGator

““Our dietary choices have a big impact on the planet,” Peter Scarborough, a researcher at Oxford University and lead author of the study, said in a statement”

Kiss my ass you bug eatin” mofo


5 posted on 07/21/2023 11:02:52 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

There are many many many many many more meat eaters than vegans so meat eaters WIN


6 posted on 07/21/2023 11:03:10 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

no kidding. didn’t need a study to know if a person grows food and eats it, that’s a lot less to grow to feed animals or pasture land to feed animals that they at some point would then be harvested to eat too.


7 posted on 07/21/2023 11:03:20 AM PDT by b4me
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To: V_TWIN

I had lamb for lunch…same as yesterday.


8 posted on 07/21/2023 11:03:54 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Who cares? I just ate some BBQ ribs and don’t feel guilty in the slightest. Planning on eating some more later. Vegans and climate wackos can go suck on (but not eat) some fish heads.


9 posted on 07/21/2023 11:04:28 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy - EVs a solution for which there is no problem)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
"heat trapping gas"

That's CO2. Which is what plants require. And therefore drives the food production for vegans. Why don't we all just eat what we want to eat? Seems like a natural system of equilibrium.

10 posted on 07/21/2023 11:04:49 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (It's not a government. It's a criminal enterprise. Fear it, but do not respect it.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Lab Grown Meat Diets Have Four Times the Climate Impact of Real Beef Diets, Study Finds.

https://www.ucdavis.edu/food/news/lab-grown-meat-carbon-footprint-worse-beef#:~:text=The%20scientists%20defined%20the%20global,the%20average%20for%20retail%20beef.


11 posted on 07/21/2023 11:05:00 AM PDT by CodeJockey
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I wonder if they took into account the methane created by an all vegetable diet.

(cue the campfire scene from Blazing Saddles)


12 posted on 07/21/2023 11:05:03 AM PDT by farmguy ( )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Not one of these researchers or politicians is going to give up meat.


13 posted on 07/21/2023 11:06:07 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I’ll believe them when they commit to clearing off the Serengeti of the vast herds of animals.


14 posted on 07/21/2023 11:06:08 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything)
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To: CodeJockey

Lab Grown Meat from cancer cells and you know where that will lead


15 posted on 07/21/2023 11:07:09 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: metmom

Believe the science.


16 posted on 07/21/2023 11:07:22 AM PDT by sauropod (Sun Tzu: “The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting”)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Climate change is nothing but a scam.


17 posted on 07/21/2023 11:07:30 AM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I feel so bad I may have to eat a steak later to make me feel better.


18 posted on 07/21/2023 11:07:34 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉)
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To: rovenstinez

Actually l don’t care one bit whether it’s true or not. Let the woke a-holes eat bugs and crab grass while we enjoy a good steak


19 posted on 07/21/2023 11:07:38 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Yeah? So....🙄


20 posted on 07/21/2023 11:07:41 AM PDT by Maskot (Put every dem/lib in prison........like yesterday!!! )
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