Plans to present meat as ‘sustainable nutrition’ at Cop28 revealed (www.theguardian.com)

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Given what we know about the limits of soil seqeustration this is basically a PR exercise by the meat industry to keep the methane flowing into the atmosphere.

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[-] Gloomy@mander.xyz 3 points 11 months ago

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.

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