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Inside the Republican effort to force millions of farm animals back into cages (www.vox.com)

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I'm also returning to a more plant based diet in part because of animal cruelty but also because creating demand for plant based meat alternatives could potentially reduce the need for agricultural land use by ~70%. But not all animal production has the same impact on climate change: just cutting out beef and eating more nuts will help.

Graph of carbon footprint for protein rich food industries. Beef is by far the worst, with chicken, eggs, and farmed fish being the best animal sources; and beans, peas, and nuts actually being the best, with some of these actually being carbon negative