Switching to plant-based diets means cleaner air – and it could save more than 200,000 human lives around the world

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Switching to plant-based diets means cleaner air – and it could save more than 200,000 lives around the world

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But I like feeling like a real manly man when I eat my real manly meat in a real manly way with my real manly bros, surely that's worth a few hundreds thousands human lives a year ?
(And btw, plant-based diets could also save 100 million animal lives a year)
- I think it you want to see the environmental benefits, is less of saving animal lives and more ensuring that 100 million animals a year never exist?
  Edit: Not sure what is controversial about this. We stop eating meat to stop farming of livestock. No livestock lives are saved, just new animals aren't born into the mincer.
  
  What benefits? The animals fart methane. You probably do too..
Is this true of fake meats?
- All plant-based foods, whole-foods or not, have lower emissions than animal products
  EDIT with a source:
  Transitioning to plant-based diets (PBDs) has the potential to reduce diet-related land use by 76%, diet-related greenhouse gas emissions by 49%, eutrophication by 49%, and green and blue water use by 21% and 14%, respectively, whilst garnering substantial health co-benefits
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  Plant-based foods have a significantly smaller footprint on the environment than animal-based foods. Even the least sustainable vegetables and cereals cause less environmental harm than the lowest impact meat and dairy products [9].
  https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/14/8/1614/htm
- See https://youtu.be/w5GmDRW975g
Preach! The whole foods plant based diet is the healthiest.
200,000 extra people alive? I'm sure they'll be happy but that's going to do a lot of environmental damage from meeting their needs and other activity
- If that 200k includes you, do you mind not being saved so that you won't be the cause to environmental damage?
  
  Everybody wants to go to the party. nobody wants to stay and clean up.
- Yes but we'll tell all 200,000 to go vegan or else we'll go back to killin em.
Make plants free to eat then.
- It's not possible to make them free. Do you think plants grow on trees? Don't be ridiculous
- At least subsidise it, like my govrrnment does (Germany)
But if people don't eat the cows, then there will be more methane, ammonia, etc in the air.
Seems to me we should be eating more meat to reduce the cow population. Either that, or convince the farmers to breed less cows.
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- Eating less meat is exactly what encourages farmers to breed less cows.
  
  Have you ever met a farmer? It's like a fetish for many of them, to collect semen...
- How are people in this century not understanding that humans produce animals for consumption and that eating animals' meat does not come from a magical apparition. We don't eat cows that are out there, we create cows for you to eat (under 4 years)
- Omnivore logic.

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