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The Meat of the Matter

Interesting points, everyone. I have to say, that from a purely logical POV, we seriously have to think about eating much less meat. For example, it takes 16 pounds of grain to produce 1 pound of beef- how much carbon is realeased in growing the grain? Maybe we sould eat the grain instead of the poor-yield meat!

Not to mention the water to grow the grain, and hydrate the animal. With climate change, many places will be drier and water will become a hot comodity.

And what about those, um, "methane releases" from cattle and sheep? Methane is even more implicated in climate change than CO2 is! The methane studies cite livestock and sheep as the biggest contribtors.That's why New Zealand scientists are trying to genetically engineer non-methane releasing sheep to cut down their methane contribution, rather than tapering off the sheep farming.

Then there's the animal transport to the slaughterhouse. You can only pack so many of them in a truck. Not too efficient!

So, you've got animals which the raising and transport of leaves a large carbon footprint for such a low food yield, and they leave a methane footprint, to boot! Sounds like a no-win to me.

On another note, how about a return to Victory gardens and neighborhood gardens? Talk about local!On If buying locally isn't the answer, then what is? posted 2 years, 3 months ago 28 Responses