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Epicurious Will No Longer Publish Beef Recipes

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There needs to be an informed decision pollution breakdown, industry by industry of the climate change impact.

Cows are the latest media exposed industry but I have no intuition on how they compare with other industries? Coal power plants? ICEs in auto industry? Petro-Chemical industry?

If the meat industry collapsed would we eliminate 20% of the world's pollution or 0.2%? I have no idea and haven't found any clear cut data on this?

Re: Epicurious Will No Longer Publish Beef Recipes

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There needs to be an informed decision pollution breakdown, industry by industry of the climate change impact. Cows are the latest media exposed industry but I have no intuition on how they compare with other industries? Coal power plants? ICEs in auto industry? Petro-Chemical industry? If the meat industry collapsed would we eliminate 20% of the world's pollution or 0.2%? I have no idea and haven't found any clear c…

This is the biggest problem with climate change in my opinion. Public education is abysmal and as someone that fully believes in it I still have the exact same issue - I have no clear understanding of the problem in order to make a clear decision as to where I could focus my efforts.

Re: Epicurious Will No Longer Publish Beef Recipes

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There needs to be an informed decision pollution breakdown, industry by industry of the climate change impact. Cows are the latest media exposed industry but I have no intuition on how they compare with other industries? Coal power plants? ICEs in auto industry? Petro-Chemical industry? If the meat industry collapsed would we eliminate 20% of the world's pollution or 0.2%? I have no idea and haven't found any clear c…

There's a good chart with a short text summary at Our World in Data: https://ourworldindata.org/emissions-by-sector

Re: Epicurious Will No Longer Publish Beef Recipes

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There needs to be an informed decision pollution breakdown, industry by industry of the climate change impact. Cows are the latest media exposed industry but I have no intuition on how they compare with other industries? Coal power plants? ICEs in auto industry? Petro-Chemical industry? If the meat industry collapsed would we eliminate 20% of the world's pollution or 0.2%? I have no idea and haven't found any clear c…

And what about forest-killing soy and avocado plantations? What about water-guzzling fields?

The “environmental” story of vegetarianism is such hypocritical bullshit.

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post #5

There needs to be an informed decision pollution breakdown, industry by industry of the climate change impact. Cows are the latest media exposed industry but I have no intuition on how they compare with other industries? Coal power plants? ICEs in auto industry? Petro-Chemical industry? If the meat industry collapsed would we eliminate 20% of the world's pollution or 0.2%? I have no idea and haven't found any clear c…

There's a good chart with a short text summary at Our World in Data : https://ourworldindata.org/emissions-by-sector

> Grants from Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Re: Epicurious Will No Longer Publish Beef Recipes

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There needs to be an informed decision pollution breakdown, industry by industry of the climate change impact. Cows are the latest media exposed industry but I have no intuition on how they compare with other industries? Coal power plants? ICEs in auto industry? Petro-Chemical industry? If the meat industry collapsed would we eliminate 20% of the world's pollution or 0.2%? I have no idea and haven't found any clear c…

Industry by industry doesn't reward good actors or innovation within an industry. Ideally we would just directly tax polluters and let the price reflect the pollution.

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There needs to be an informed decision pollution breakdown, industry by industry of the climate change impact. Cows are the latest media exposed industry but I have no intuition on how they compare with other industries? Coal power plants? ICEs in auto industry? Petro-Chemical industry? If the meat industry collapsed would we eliminate 20% of the world's pollution or 0.2%? I have no idea and haven't found any clear c…

There's a good chart with a short text summary at Our World in Data : https://ourworldindata.org/emissions-by-sector

This is really really cool.

So looking at the world data the global warming effect of the whole world livestock production is 5.8% which is aproximately the same as the methane emissions of accidental leaks in the Energy sector industries.

It seems logistically much easier to solve the problem of coal mining leaks and Oil and Gas methane leaks created by a few multinational conglomerates, than to try and curb a fractured meat industry spread through multiple (often developing) countries.

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