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Environment & Energy

cprise

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10. Definitely about more than just greenhouse gasses: water, deforestation, food scarcity

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Reply #9)

Sun Oct 4, 2015, 04:09 PM

Oct 2015

...these are all part of the picture that is making beef look very, very bad. When people insist on using their money to reward beef production, they are causing deforestation and crowding out crops that could feed many more poorer people.

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Where does the 11,000 gallons per day from meat come from? muriel_volestrangler Oct 2015 #9

Definitely about more than just greenhouse gasses: water, deforestation, food scarcity cprise Oct 2015 #10

Since the figures looked about 10 times too big, I looked for "1100 gallons", and that's the figure muriel_volestrangler Oct 2015 #11

Oops! My bad. But hey, "zero" is "nothing", right? n /t Binkie The Clown Oct 2015 #13

I hope no one brings that sniffer around my place madokie Oct 2015 #12

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