Climate activism has intensified in the past few years as the planet warms to dangerous levels, igniting more extreme heat, floods, storms and wildfires around the world.
    • CoderKat@lemm.eeEnglish
      51·
      1 year ago

      They said emissions.

      Meat accounts for nearly 60% of all greenhouse gases from food production, study finds

      https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/sep/13/meat-greenhouses-gases-food-production-study

      As for the rest of what they said:

      The entire system of food production, such as the use of farming machinery, spraying of fertilizer and transportation of products, causes 17.3bn metric tonnes of greenhouse gases a year, according to the research. This enormous release of gases that fuel the climate crisis is more than double the entire emissions of the US and represents 35% of all global emissions, researchers said.

      • AnalogyAddict@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        1 year ago

        What this fails to account for is that a whole lot of land that produces beef can’t produce edible vegetables. It’s not so easy as flipping a switch.