[hernkingAnank]

This idea that cows and other livestock are somehow a danger to the planet is utter non-sense. If it wasn't cows and humans farting and defecating it would be bison, mammoths and Neanderthals.

The problems with meat are all cased by big agri. Growing massive amounts of corn and grains to feed to cattle is unhealthy for them and causes disease for both the cattle and the people that eat them. It depletes the soil and is energy intensive because of all the machinery used to cultivate, harvest and then ship the grains all over the country. Petroleum is used to power the machines and create the fertilizer that is necessary to get depleted soil to produce a yield.

Compare that to grassfed beef.

Properly managed pasture never needs to be tilled and replanted, that gets rid of the need for much machinery. The cattle can be raised and sold locally, slaughtered on the property and butchered nearby. All of this is great for consumers and the environment and there is plenty of land suitable for pasture that is not suitable for cultivation. Also by not breaking up the soil every year and having it eroded the soil actually builds over time by being grazed not depleted like it would growing grains and corn.

The people that believe we should all be vegans to save the planet and feed the starving are a bunch of shrunken brain (due to insufficient healthy fats from animals) morons.

Would have to look them up but I believe there are studies that show children fed diets high in meat and diary are smarter and healthier then vegetarian children which is probably a big reason why the elite don't want us eating much meat. Same thing they would do back in the middle ages by not letting the commoners hunt in the "kings forest".