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Eating meat creates four times more greenhouse gases than being vegan, landmark study finds
(www.independent.co.uk)
this post was submitted on 20 Jul 2023
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It's also much tastier.
There are plenty of things that create more greenhouse gases that should be more thoroughly regulated than eating meat.
There are also plenty of ways to improve the carbon foot print of cows (the worst offenders), like feeding them seaweed: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0249053
I'm looking forward to cultured meat becoming cheap and available. Then we can haz peopleburgers!
Fun fact there is a breed of sheep in I believe Shetland who only eat sea weed.
That is fun!
I'm all for lab grown meat if it can taste even 90% the same as real meat and have the same benefits.
My only problem with lab grown meat, is what if it actually ends up using more resources and energy then raising a cow or chicken?
What happens if lab grown meat is so successful that say chickens or cows go extinct? That's an interesting idea. I feel like that could be a Black mirror episode.
I doubt that chickens would go extinct. I dont care how effecient your lab grown eggs are if I can go into my backyard and get some.
As for cows perhaps theyd become more commonly pets.
Would you be good with Bezos saying
Yes. I’m all for automation of menial jobs.
But it is cheaper to hire slaves and let them piss in bottles, so you have to accept that as long as robots are not cheaper and faster. As long as robots are not 90% as fast and cheap as humans.
Land use is the main contributor. The OP article is knot great. Seaweed only helps with methane. Still, good.
Not it doesn't, and that was basically industry propaganda: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/13/seaweed-cow-feed-trial-fails-methane-reduction-australia
Did you read the article you posted?
"Australian trial of seaweed cow feed fails to achieve hoped-for methane cuts
Longest trial so far of supplement derived from red seaweed produced 28% less of the greenhouse gas – a much smaller reduction than in previous studies."
So, not as much as the 97% in the shorter trials, but 28% is certainly statistically significant, and doesn't really fall under the category of "industry propaganda." They also used less seaweed for this trial and used a breed not tested before, along with an open air sampling process, while other trials had been indoor, sealed environments. Even if other breeds had the same weight gain issue (no evidence of that so far) and needed to wait longer until slaughter it's still a 19% reduction.