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stoicinmd t1_iqwn858 wrote

Animal agriculture uses a lot of land and contributes, by some estimates, as much green house gas emissions (primarily methane) as the transportation sector. Most of the corn in the US is grown to feed animals not humans. Converting land that is used to grow animal food to human food would reduce pressure on scarce water resources especially in ranch land out west and reduce dependence on pesticide and herbicides used if we reduced the overall farming footprint.

Here is one source: https://news.stanford.edu/2022/02/01/new-model-explores-link-animal-agriculture-climate-change/

There are many sources if you google something like “greenhouse gas emissions animal agriculture “

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