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Cows are bad for the environment, study funded by junk food companies


The recent major study from The Lancet which is responsible for this latest round of attacks on family farming was funded by DuPont, PepsiCo, Dannon, Nestlé, Cargill, and Kellogg’s.

The study called for people to reduce meat consumption to under one half ounce per day, and to increase sugar intake to 8 teaspoons. Sounds like Moochelle Obama's school lunch guidelines. It's a bizzare essay format study that uses activist lingo, and gets a lot of attention in the media... just because.

A funny comment that I read about it: "What rich white people in Sweden were not paying attention to is that livestock are really important to the majority of people living in poverty in the world in places where, what are you going to do in Kenya where it’s super arid and the Maasai have been herding cattle forever and ever? And we’re going to tell them that they need to go grow soybeans? With what seeds? Are they going to have to go buy them from Monsanto? Where are they going to get the water to irrigate? Where are they going to get the fertilizer if they can’t have animals? So I think it’s bordering on racist to have a grain-heavy diet as a global policy for the entire world."

It would be nice if liberals could recognize that there are large vested interests behind this political policy, so that we can be skeptical of them. They seem totally unaware of this fact.

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A meat-based diet is known to be damaging to the environment, and its excessive water footprint is now also a major concern. By contrast, a vegan diet uses five times less water than a meat-based diet, a study by the European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC) has found.
https://i.redd.it/hbwr6an0uwi21.png
https://www.livekindly.co/vegan-diet-less-water-than-meat/

Veganism is mainstream and widespread across Europe, including Sweden, and is spreading in Africa, where it's easy to *not* eat meat (where grains and vegetables dominate)
https://www.thenomadicvegan.com/vegan-african-food-6-ways/

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