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i have watched videos against beef and defending beef long time ago.
now, i want just generally say, if you attack/deny beef, probably you should better also warn about possible lack of vitamin b12 in a beefless diet.
2:28 feeding people with grain is not understandable and trustworthy enouh, because people need like 50 different molecules and atoms, from food, while grains probably provide only like 30 of them. (i am lazy to check wikipedia).
I am a Vegetarian. Just when i thought to start a animal based diet for my chronic illness (MS) , I am seeing all this and now am in a BIG dilemma.
Some people don’t like the idea of being vegan yet so many people in the office are very vocal about how AMAZING my vegan lunches look.
I switched for health, and stay for the environment.
It also benefits the fight against antibiotic resistance.
Go all the way vegan for the most impact and the most healthy life.
The more you eat a food the more you cultivate the type of gut flora to digest that food. There’s a theory that your gut flora influence your food cravings making the food they like to eat what you like to eat.
I reckon it’s true. I can tell you my food tastes have changed I love love love greens and love a hearty vege soup or stew. And prefer it to a steak!
Mediterranean diets are also very good for people with Diabetes (obviously this is a generalization but it can help with glucose control and other comorbidities).
I aint doing allat
I have to say that I literally don't care – we have to eat and I'm gonna eat meat, even if I eat less due to the cost of it.
What food had to do with climate change
I don’t think this video accounts for the amount of carbon that animals actually reduce, cows for example eat a ton of grass, which than provides room for new grasses to go which can greatly reduce carbon in the atmosphere
This video assumes that supply and demand are completely intertwined, just because consumers lower their intake has no guarantee that producers change anything, the consumers aren’t to blame its the producers, they should switch production methods
Should also mention carbon negative meat, one and only .
Human Meat.
the more you eat the better it is for the planet.
A few points…
Much of the beef production emissions are due to methane from cows. So unless you are suggesting the mass slaughter of cows – the emission rate will not likely change if you eat beef or not. Note that the US cattle population since 2000 has been pretty steady – it has actually declined slightly over the past 2 decades.
The video states that one serving of beef is equivalent to 330 grams of carbon, which is equated to driving your car 3 miles. The average American commute is 40 miles per day. Furthermore it is stated that one serving of chicken is the equivalent of 52 grams of carbon or driving less than a 1/2mile when compared to beef. I've seen other comparisons that state 4 oz of beef is the equivalent to using 1.10 gallons of gas. It would thus seem that reduction of average commute or fossil fuel used would far outweigh most peoples carbon footprint when compared to diet.
If you further consider emissions due to food waste, emissions from meat production doesn't even compare. Global food waste contributes 9.3bn tonnes of CO2.
I reduced by 60mile/day commute to ZERO or the equivalent of about 12 hamburgers per week. Incidentally I might actually eat 2 per week at most. It's not about beef. It is about fossil fuels and food waste.
i’m genuinely asking this to understand because i want to reduce my meat intake, is carbon being emitted by me eating meat or its the production of the meat? my family will buy meat but i won’t eat it so is this still allowing me to reduce my emissions even if it is being bought?
Not cutting down on my meat consumption ever but I respect people who do
i’ve been vegan for 7 months now and i have never ever felt so
proud of myself
reminder that 100 companies cause 71% of all pollution but you're told your gas cars are bad and stop eating red meat (1 hour private jet ride = 1 year of an average co2 released per year per car)
No, in fact, now, I'm going to start eating MORE meat.
WOKE!
Then stop making fresh foods and vegetables so expensive.
Im 25 , im vegan from morocco north africa
I became vegan for the animals , planet and environnement , and my health
Vegetable is better than beaf. Wow