I heard something to do with Nitrogen and …cow farts(?) I am really unsure of this and would like to learn more.
Answer -
4 Parts
- Ethical reason for consuming animals
- Methane produced by cows are a harmful greenhouse gas which is contributing to our current climate crisis
- Health Reasons - there is convincing evidence that processed meats cause cancer
- it takes a lot more calories of plant food to produce the calories we would consume from the meat.
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Just globally. Not sure about specific countries. Virtually all of the Amazon deforestation, for example
But isn’t that an argument against deforestation, not against cattle itself?
We can’t have more cows if they don’t have food. We need to cut down trees to grow other stuff to feed the cattle. Global demand for beef is rising, mainly due to increases of standards of living in Asia.
So how do we raise more cattle without more farmland to grow food for them?
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The cows are the issue though. If people buy beef, it doesn’t come out of the sky. How do you raise an animal without feeding it?
You don’t. You enforce laws on deforestation. Either by replacing every cut tree with a new planted one somewhere not good for farmland, or just banning it. Supply would plateau and the price of the commodity will go up which is unfortunate but the reality of increased demand.
Ah yes, let’s stop illegal rainforest destruction by banning it. Nobody ever tried that l! /s
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Wow, again, I don’t think anyone has ever tried that
or at a stretch or could be an argument against beef. but the question was about meat generally.