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Plans to present meat as ‘sustainable nutrition’ at Cop28 revealed
(www.theguardian.com)
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Raising animals for meat isn't inherently an awful thing for the environment. There is land that is useful for grazing but unsuitable for growing crops. Turning inedible grasses into meat is very useful but industrial scale grain fed and fattened meat production clearly is a problem.
That's a huge part of it. The second problem is that cattle produce a lot of methane as part of their digestive process. Other species produce a lot less.
We would need alot less land, if we only used it for plants to feed humans, instead of using it to produce meat. Land that is now used for grazing could be rewildered and contribute to countering the massive loss in biodiversity. It is one of the greatest errors of the system we live in, that everything is seen trough the lens of generating short term profits.