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For a lower climate footprint, vegetarian diet beats local

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Re: For a lower climate footprint, vegetarian diet beats local

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Post by mlthoughts2018 »

hacknat wrote: post #2

Makes sense, cows are bad for the environment, no matter how far away they live from you.

Also reduced water requirements and longer term perishability for supply chains are huge. These foods are often also affordable by a wider set of the population, further improving supply chain efficiency. Finally, the aggregated benefits in terms of reduced diet-based diseases or chronic conditions that require waste in a variety of ways to systematically treat.

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Post by acd »

Did a new years resolution to try and do what I can to lessen climate change. Calculated carbon foot print with a calculator. Concluded main changes needed was to changes required eat less red meat and drive and ride cars less. Try and consume less new things, prefer buying used things. Buying quality items that lasts long instead of cheap buy and throw.

Changing to vegetarian diet and driving less had the biggest impact.

Re: For a lower climate footprint, vegetarian diet beats local

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Post by mlthoughts2018 »

vinni2 wrote: post #3
hacknat wrote: post #2

Makes sense, cows are bad for the environment, no matter how far away they live from you.

But a chicken or fish near you is far more environmentally friendly than vegetarian food from father places. So the title is a bit misleading.

Your claim seems to be refuted by a lot of sources,

https://medium.com/@annieleymarie/tabitha-writes-that-the-ma...

The title is not misleading. Local meat, fish & dairy are worse all around than far-away vegetarian foods.

This is not an argument for or against being vegetarian, just a more or less indisputable measurement of food production.

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Post by goalieca »

acd wrote: post #5

Did a new years resolution to try and do what I can to lessen climate change. Calculated carbon foot print with a calculator. Concluded main changes needed was to changes required eat less red meat and drive and ride cars less. Try and consume less new things, prefer buying used things. Buying quality items that lasts long instead of cheap buy and throw. Changing to vegetarian diet and driving less had the biggest im…

For me it was air travel. That was more than diet even though I didn’t travel much. Home heating was also a lot in my cold city.

Also, reduce then reuse then recycle in that order.

Re: For a lower climate footprint, vegetarian diet beats local

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Post by mtalantikite »

vinni2 wrote: post #3
hacknat wrote: post #2

Makes sense, cows are bad for the environment, no matter how far away they live from you.

But a chicken or fish near you is far more environmentally friendly than vegetarian food from father places. So the title is a bit misleading.

Are they? The study left out fish, so I didn’t see that conclusion in there. Also, the title is pretty much the conclusion of the study: eating vegetarian has a greater environmental impact than eating local.

Re: For a lower climate footprint, vegetarian diet beats local

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Post by wtdata »

Greenhouse emissions from meat/dairy production (the all chain) in highly efficient meat industries of 1st world countries, are negligible when compared to to other sources. [1]

Even when looking at the global numbers and taking into account countries with less efficient systems, the global total is still less than 15% of all greenhouse emissions. [2]

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/co2-and-other-greenhouse-gas-emis...

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_meat...

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