And that’s without accounting for the feed iirc, which is the majority of our farmland. Then we have to water that shit, grow it, transport it to the livestock so they can eat it, etc.
It’s incredibly resource intensive to raise a living being.
Edit: I didn’t even touch on all the deforestation for livestock feed, which is a whole other conversation
I didn’t even touch on all the deforestation
the paper does, and it's deeply flawed. no one should trust these over simplifications of our vastly complex agricultural systems.
Lots of different estimates, but looks like between 11% and 20% of ghg emissions are livestock. That's way higher than I thought.
https://thebreakthrough.org/issues/food-agriculture-environment/livestock-dont-contribute-14-5-of-global-greenhouse-gas-emissions
And that’s without accounting for the feed iirc, which is the majority of our farmland. Then we have to water that shit, grow it, transport it to the livestock so they can eat it, etc.
It’s incredibly resource intensive to raise a living being.
Edit: I didn’t even touch on all the deforestation for livestock feed, which is a whole other conversation
the paper does, and it's deeply flawed. no one should trust these over simplifications of our vastly complex agricultural systems.
it's not, and the methodology is flawed.
https://openknowledge.fao.org/server/api/core/bitstreams/57aee0d5-0013-4182-abe7-55e1a817f553/content
Gotta be flawed if it says animal-based foods are only 2x as bad as plant based ones lol. Talk about an understatement