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Vegan Diets Cut Emissions, Water Pollution and Land Use by 75%, Major Study Finds (www.ecowatch.com)
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study link is here: Scarborough, P., Clark, M., Cobiac, L. et al. Vegans, vegetarians, fish-eaters and meat-eaters in the UK show discrepant environmental impacts. Nat Food 4, 565–574 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-023-00795-w

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[–] Nechesh@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Totally, organic is not the same as sustainable.

[–] whelmer@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Organic is very much ~~the same as~~ about sustainability. The degree to which a particular enterprise succeeds in living up to organic principles and to internationally recognized organic standards is a different question.

Organic standards are available to be read. Here is the Canadian standards. You'll notice that sustainability is very much the organizing principle.

Organic standards are not the be-all and end-all of sustainability, that is true.