{"id":43568,"date":"2019-02-06T15:23:07","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T20:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=43568"},"modified":"2019-02-06T15:23:09","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T20:23:09","slug":"eat-less-meat-and-save-the-planet%ef%bb%bf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=43568","title":{"rendered":"Eat Less Meat and Save the Planet\ufeff"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Eat Less Meat and Save the Planet<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Salvador Dali\u00a0Portrait of Gala with Two Lamb Chops Balanced on Her Shoulder\u00a0<\/strong>1933<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Dr. D: <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eat less meat to save the planet<\/strong> \u2013 report (1)<\/strong><\/a>
The new diet that could save the planet<\/strong> (2)<\/strong><\/a>
What to eat to save the planet<\/strong>: Report urges \u2018radical changes\u2019 to world\u2019s diet \u2013 less meat, more veggies (3)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

These headlines, likely sourced from a recent article from \u201cThe Lancet\u201d (4)<\/strong><\/a> are a regular feature of our time, in diet, in environmentalism, and in global warming. They are well-researched, sourced by the world\u2019s experts, and put forward with the highest intentions. However, they are also completely wrong \u2013 dangerously, ignorantly wrong. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like most industries, agriculture and food production is a specialty, with its own language and details. I don\u2019t attempt to tell the Lancet how to perform heart surgery, for to do so would be ridiculous, dangerous, outside of my expertise. I wouldn\u2019t tell a geologist how to interpret the magnetic layers of rock, or how oceanographers should properly interpret sea water samples to guide us on fishing or pollution. Yet this is what they do for farmers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The primary drive of most such articles is that, with so many people, and so much hunger, we find that it takes \u201c2,500 gallons of water, 12 pounds of grain, 35 pounds of topsoil and the energy equivalent of one gallon of gasoline to produce one pound of feedlot beef.\u201d that \u201c64% of US cropland produces livestock feed.\u201d (5)<\/strong><\/a> That it takes \u201c20 pounds corn [to make] 1 pound beef.\u201d (6)<\/strong><\/a> Or that you can get 15lbs of beef per acre, but 263lbs of soybeans. (7)<\/strong><\/a> Also that cattle are the primary reason for deforestation, and a major cause of methane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Eat Less Meat and Save the Planet Dr. D:  Eat less meat to save the planet \u2013 report (1)The new diet that could save the planet (2)What to eat to save the planet: Report urges \u2018radical changes\u2019 to world\u2019s diet \u2013 less meat, more veggies (3) These headlines, likely sourced from a recent article from \u201cThe Lancet\u201d (4) are a regular feature of our time, in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[20,7762,24316,263,19702,4844,319,24317,23450,6044,5618,8756,588,16776,13924,3474,5177],"class_list":["post-43568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-agriculture","tag-beef","tag-cow","tag-energy","tag-farm","tag-fertilizer","tag-food","tag-grass","tag-green-new-deal","tag-malthus","tag-manure","tag-meat","tag-oil","tag-pasture","tag-raul-ilargi-meijer","tag-supply-chain","tag-the-automatic-earth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43568"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43569,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43568\/revisions\/43569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}