Not exact matches
With many Americans choosing to eat less
meat in recent years, often to help reduce the environmental effect of
meat production, UCLA geography professor Gregory Okin began to wonder how much feeding pets
contributes to issues like climate change.
Post also points out that lab - cultured
meat will help lower methane
production, which
contributes to climate change.
One way a diet rich in animal - sourced foods —
meat, eggs, and cheese — may
contribute to heart disease, stroke, kidney failure, and death is through the
production of toxin called TMAO.
Runoff from chemical inputs and CAFO waste pollutes our water and
contributes to global warming; monoculture — planting a single crop over a large area year after year — depletes soil and reduces biodiversity; overuse of antibiotics in
meat production threatens our ability to fight human disease.
The same
meat production the United Nations want us to reduce, because it
contributes more global greenhouse gas emissions than worldwide transport.