I’ve read in an Article that meat production causes a lot of co² emission. Now I was wondering if we stopped eating meat completely, would that be sufficient to get under the threshhold of emissions what the planet can process? What is that threshold? Where are we now? How much does meat add to this?

  • commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    we need to stop ALL CO2 emissions where they aren’t necessary and unavoidable. Meat consumption (in the current industrial scale) is.

    meat consumption doesn’t emit co2 though

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      Sure it does. You use muscles to move the piece of meat from the plate to your mouth, to chew it, to digest it. That all uses CO2.

      Well, actually, it uses ATP, which has to be regenerated using cellular respiration, which emits CO2.

      Are you happy with that explanation and sidetrack that has absolutely nothing to do with the topic at hand?

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        1 day ago

        you think human breathing is a significant source of co2 emissions, and should be mitigated? how would changing the food being chewed change the emissions of breathing?