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Organic Egg Farming Is Twice As Bad For The Environment, Finds Study | reducing egg consumption could reduce the sector's significant environmental impact (plantbasednews.org)
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[–] 6 points 2 days ago (1 child)

The title is misleading. The problem is industrial scale egg-farming and the meaningless "free-range" label; most people see "free-range" and think "pastured." The marketing is unfortunately working exactly as intended. Industrial scale anything is going to be bad for ecosystems, animals, and people.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 2 days ago

    Indeed, around 1% of free-range are actually on pasture, but fully pasture-based systems are also significantly worse on resource and land efficiency, so the stats are worse for pasture systems. They also require an increase in the number of chickens

    There is really not an at scale way to get there. Production and consumption levels of animal products have to go down

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