Animal agriculture is a key driver of climate change: https://sentientmedia.org/how-does-livestock-affect-climate-...
Along with the high price, that's one more reason to not buy it.
Animal agriculture is a key driver of climate change: https://sentientmedia.org/how-does-livestock-affect-climate-...
Along with the high price, that's one more reason to not buy it.
In a recent Ezra Klein podcast about data center backlash he mentions being vegetarian and says something along the lines of "being anti data center because of water consumption is hypocritical if people eat meat"
Eh, that's pretty specious reasoning. If I start a business selling space water cannons that anyone can use to spray water at the ISS as it flies by. If these cannons are consuming whole farms worth of water in use and just blasting it out into space, you can still be mad at the water waste because you think that water could be put to better uses like growing animals for hot dogs and chicken nuggets, and not fleeting entertainment for people to have interplanetary water fights.
Beef is particularly egregious.
Poultry and even pork are about an order of magnitude more efficient.
It's interesting how long the market was wildly subsidized to hide the true cost of beef.
There’s research now that high density rotational grazing does the opposite.
You have to cut out feedlot finishing to get those benefits on a macro scale, which would drastically reduce beef output. It's the same problem organic has, but maybe even worse since 99%? of cows are feedlot-finished.
Which isn't really a negative to me, but I think people should be honest about what is actually necessary to get the benefits of this form of beef production.
Link?
A person eating one single hamburger uses more water than an entire year of LLM use for the same person. Yet we are very concerned about water use in data centers, but nobody cares about McDonalds.
All economic activity is a key driver to climate change. Why single out one thing? You're clearly imposing a self-serving moral judgement on other people.
> All economic activity is a key driver to climate change
what a pointless thought-terminating cliché
> You're clearly imposing a self-serving moral judgement on other people.
Just because you are the wrong side of morality does not mean they are incorrect
Some of need to eat animal foods to live because genetics. I am of Sami heritage and I am tired of people telling me my genetics are the problem.
your infinitesimally rare edge case is not a negation of the comment you are responding to. Also I don't think there is even any good evidence that some people have genetic heritage that means they can only eat animal foods
Where I can learn more about the genetic need of people of Sámi heritage to eat animal food?
When I tried to search for the details, I found only that it was a traditionally meat heavy diet.