How would becoming vegan help climate change? Real reasons please, not just the made up reason of cow gas.
people refuse to talk abt veg*nism when discussing climate change because there is no chance it would make any sort of meaningful change whatsoever and meat isn’t actually the issue at all. You can’t be mad that actual scientists don’t share ur agenda
that is patently false.
according to the UNs IPCC, vegan diets have the highest potential for ghg mitigation by 2050 of all diets
The livestock sector is by far the single largest anthropogenic user of land. its the main driver deforestation in the amazon
and a vegan diet could reduce global agricultural land by 75%
it would reduce food’s ghg emissions by 49% (61 to 73% in the US), acidification by 50%, eutrophication by 49% (for a 2010 reference year). the rewilding of the lands previously used for animal ag would allow soil carbon to re-accumulate and take a lot of CO2 from the atmosphere.
the livestock sector emits more ghg than the entire transportation sector, with the majority coming from beef and cattle milk.
in 2006 the FAO said: “The livestock sector emerges as one of the top two or three most significant contributors to the most serious environmental problems, at every scale from local to global”
Just in case you guys need more proof that these animal agriculture industry shill accounts are lying to you:
Livestock’s Long Shadow UN Report
World Watch Institute Report on livestock and climate change
World Bank causes of amazon deforestation report
Chatham House Thinktank report on meat and climate change
National Academy of sciences biomass and gas emissions report
Animal agriculture “a leading cause of everything”
Livestock methane pushes climate change
Vast animal-feed crops to satisfy meat needs destroying planet
Growth in Dairy affecting environment
Food Footprint- Animal Waste
NRDC – Livestock production destroying environment
WRI World Greenhouse Gas Emissions Charts
WRI Greenhouse Gas Emissions Flowchart
Scientific American on Methane
National Geographic Hog Farms Pollution
The planet’s prodigious poo problem
NCBI – Animal Farming and Global Warming Mitigation
Science Daily – Animal agriculture direct driver of deforestation
Environmental impacts of fish farming
The Guardian – Emissions from 13 dairy farms matched entire UK
Oceans are increasingly bearing the brunt of global warming
Farming emissions set to rise 80% thanks to meat eating
Cattle ranching leading cause of deforestation in Amazon
2,500 dairy cow farm produces as much waste as city of 411,000
Global animal farming and climate change
Biomass use, production, feed and emissions of animal agriculture
Impact of dietary change in greenhouse gas emissions
Impact of European livestock production
Environmental impact of beef
Biomass distribution of earth
WHO: Climate Change and Health
Misinformation on the Science of Grazed Ecosystems
Food Climate Action Network – Grazed and Confused?
The regenerative ranching racket
Benefits of Removing Livestock from Rangelands to Sequester Carbon
FAO: Tackling Climate Change Through Livestock
Is Feedlot Beef Better for the Environment?
Food-miles and the relative climate impacts of food choices in US
The Inefficiency of Local Food
Tyson Foods linked to largest toxic deadzone in US history
20 meat and dairy companies more GHG emissions than Britain, Germany or France
Big meat and dairy heating up planet
Meat industry using ‘tobacco company tactics’ to play down role in climate crisis
Fish trawling may unleash as much carbon as air travel
Animal agriculture’s impact on climate change
