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[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

This part is kinda crazy.

Producing a kilogram of cheese currently emits around 24 kilograms of carbon dioxide or equivalents, compared with 100 kilograms for beef but well under 2 kilograms for most plant-based foods.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Yeah, raising cattle produces a ton of greenhouse gases from the usual industrial agriculture sources - growing feed for livestock, transporting animals, processing animals, etc.

And above that, cows specifically produce a lot of methane, and feeding them grain in feed lots produces even more methane than normal, because it's not the diet they evolved to eat, and methane is such a powerful greenhouse gas it doubles the overall impact of cattle production.

If you eat an average Western diet, cutting beef from your diet would benefit the environment more than cutting any other single food, by far.

Tldr cow farts.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

We are vegan. However we read something about seaweed cutting out by either a lot or completely either the farting or the methane in their farts, so that might be a solution to that problem if they are going to continue to fart anyway.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Oh heck yes!

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I heard some very good reviews of a small vegan cheese manufacturer from Germany called Veeze.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Oh man. Cheese. The only thing, I really would love to have a 1 to 1 vegan replacement.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

That's awesome. I love cheese, and while I happily went without it when I went vegan, I'd certainly welcome a vegan product that was more like the dairy original. Especially since it'd be safe for my lactose-intolerant ass.

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