Food for thought

[Coventina]

The meat industry causes more global warming (carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide) than all the cars, trucks, SUVs, planes, and ships combined in the world. (UN)

Production of a meat-based diet requires more than ten times the water required for a totally vegetarian diet.

Farmed animals in the US produce 130 times as much excrement as our human population.

The runoff from factory farms pollutes our rivers and lakes more than all other industrial sources combined. (EPA).

Friends, not food.

Namaste.

[msongs]

1. thanks for providing solutions nt

[Joe941]

6. The solution was there if you read - vegetarianism.

[Coventina]

2. kick for morning crowd

[WhiskeyGrinder]

3. What's the source on the amount of water required for a meat-based diet vs a vegetarian diet?

And in the point about factory farm runoff, does that include runoff from crops?

Animal farming is a great way to utilize certain types of land that would require large amounts of water to irrigate. I've read some interesting arguments about veganism being a colonizing perspective as well.

[Coventina]

4. link

https://www.zmescience.com/science/domestic-science/eat-vegetarian-save-water/

[WhiskeyGrinder]

5. Okay, so that link does acknowledge that when it comes to beef, there's a wide range of

possibilities for how much water produces a pound. The information that's missing is where the farming is happening, and whether the cattle are pasture-raised or grain-fed will also make a big difference. But environmental conditions have a big influence on what's best to raise in a certain area: Where a lot of water is available, it makes sense to produce vegetables. If you have more land than water, it makes more sense to farm for meat.

[flvegan]

7. True and thanks. Sadly they, inconvenienced on the left, don't care

Not sorting blame, but to be honest, too many as selfish as the right.

Hypocrites, but they don't want to hear that. Talking about electric cars and all. LOL

[Codeine]

8. Easier to brag about their new Tesla

than to make a simple dietary shift that would have an immensely greater environmental impact.

I’m just surprised that the thread is eight or ten replies long and none of them have mentioned bacon yet.

[flvegan]

10. Well, we can't possibly inconvenience them

Or dare to call out hypocrisy among our own.

I mean seriously, they're talking about batteries without knowing or acknowledging where those batteries come from. Seriously, don't come here to this alleged progressive hill without being ready to die on that hill to support your eating meat, dumbass. I'm seriously trying to sort out how being that fucking stupid works out.

BUT I CARE SOMEWHAT ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT UNTIL IT'S INCONVENIENT FOR ME!!!!!! #democrats #liberals #DU

[Coventina]

9. selfishness is difficult to overcome

I know I struggle with it in many areas of my life.

Giving up eating animals for me, however, wasn't much of one, once I was informed of the facts.

It was actually pretty easy.

[Socal31]

11. No thanks.

But to each their own.