Livestock and climate change: vegetarian for the environment?
First one may not get it at: Vegetarianism and abstain from meat and so do something good for the environment. But it's true: Those who eat vegetarian and therefore not support the livestock support, the environment automatically. For the many negative aspects of animal husbandry drags with it, which is ultimately on the environment and therefore also affect the climate.Starting with the clearing. Firstly, the need incredible amounts of animal enough space. This means that soft rain forests and other forests and farms to be created. Thus, the rain forests have shrunk by half!
Feed and methane
So much beef has incredible exhalations. At first this may sound funny, but it is a disaster for the climate. Thus, the methane emissions caused by cattle, about half of the manmade greenhouse effect! And that's still not all. Because the cattle must be fed, of course. Even this must be created huge plantations. The curious thing is: With the plantations, which are applied to the feed, could the entire hunger around the world silent? And the cattle after slaughter must be also transported further, which in turn increase the CO2-emissions, as per KG meat must be driven about 250 KM.
What to do?
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