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Beef is a product made from cows. Cows require land, food, water, and infrastructure. Producing beef leads to the destruction of ecosystems, like the Amazon Rai

Beef is a product made from cows. Cows require land, food, water, and infrastructure. Producing beef leads to the destruction of ecosystems, like the Amazon Rainforest [1]. By consuming beef, you are contributing to this phenomenon the article discusses. The emissions from your car, similarly, contribute to climate change and the destruction that goes with it as well. The lifestyle one chooses to lead, the products one consumes, and the decisions a person makes are all very much factors in the reduction of animal populations. I'm starting to believe that you aren't arguing in good faith, in part because your statements are just thrown out there without any evidence or citation. Sure, a pound of beef or chicken contains more protein or calories than a pound of vegetables. But that's a nonsensical and misleading claim - many more pounds of vegetables went into producing that pound of beef and chicken. Many of those calories, by the way, were exhausted by the metabolic processes of those animals too. A much more efficient utilization of resources would involve just using those vegetable calories directly. [1] http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/194008291300600309 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/194008291300600...

deialtrous2 8y ago
>Beef is a product made from cows. Cows are not globally fungible. Beef production in the US has absolutely nothing to do with the amazon being destroyed. There is no part of the amazon in the US, no US cattle are raised in the amazon, no feed fed to US cattle comes from the amazon. US beef production is not related at all. >I'm starting to believe that you aren't arguing in good faith, in part because your statements are just thrown out there without any evidence or citation. Sure, a pound of beef or chicken contains more protein or calories than a pound of vegetables. But that's a nonsensical and misleading claim I did not make that claim. I responded to someone else making a misleading claim. Assuming bad faith makes it more likely to misread things. >many more pounds of vegetables went into producing that pound of beef and chicken. No vegetables go into producing it. Grain might, but vegetables do not. Lettuce is far more wasteful of land than beef is, but we do not see campaigns against lettuce consumption, only against beef consumption. This is not logical.

deialtrous2 8y ago

>Beef is a product made from cows. Cows are not globally fungible. Beef production in the US has absolutely nothing to do with the amazon being destroyed. There is no part of the amazon in the US, no US cattle are raised in the amazon, no feed fed to US cattle comes from the amazon. US beef production is not related at all. >I'm starting to believe that you aren't arguing in good faith, in part because your statements are just thrown out there without any evidence or citation. Sure, a pound of beef or chicken contains more protein or calories than a pound of vegetables. But that's a nonsensical and misleading claim I did not make that claim. I responded to someone else making a misleading claim. Assuming bad faith makes it more likely to misread things. >many more pounds of vegetables went into producing that pound of beef and chicken. No vegetables go into producing it. Grain might, but vegetables do not. Lettuce is far more wasteful of land than beef is, but we do not see campaigns against lettuce consumption, only against beef consumption. This is not logical.