Current Events > Study suggests eating beans instead of beef would sharply reduce greenhouse gas

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https://news.llu.edu/for-journalists/press-releases/research-suggests-eating-beans-instead-of-beef-would-sharply-reduce-greenhouse-gasses#overlay-context=user

In a 10-page paper released May 12, Harwatt and her colleagues noted that dietary alteration for climate change mitigation is currently a hot topic among policymakers, academics and members of society at large. The paper, titled “Substituting beans for beef as a contribution towards U.S. climate change targets,” can be found online.

In addition to reducing GHG, Harwatt and her team — which included Joan Sabate, MD, DrPH; Gidon Eshel, PhD; the late Sam Soret, PhD; and William Ripple, PhD — concluded that shifting from animal-sourced to plant-sourced foods could help avert global temperature rise.

Thanks Captain Obvious University! Imagine actual doctors publishing a 10 page paper to state such a thing.
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TC seems upset
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We would also need to stop drinking milk, surely?
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If you put a frog in a pot of boiling water, the frog will jump out. If you put the frog in a pot of cold water and slowly heat it up, the frog won't notice, and it will die.

Or in other words, scientists have too much free time on their hands.
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Not torturing and machine raping billions of animals a year would be a nice plus, too

beans beans the musical fruit. the more you eat, the more you toot.

How does this reduce gas exactly? >_>
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File this under no fucking shit
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Why not just say eating less meat instead of specifying beans
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1) Cows produce a figurative metric asston of greenhouse gases
2) Cows need to eat food (corn, grass) to produce less food (dairy, meat)
3) As demand (and subsidization) for cows decreases, greenhouse gas production goes down

Whee.

voldothegr8 posted...

Imagine actual doctors publishing a 10 page paper to state such a thing.

Seeing as some people think climate change doesn't exist, especially policymakers, they often need to be repeatedly bludgeoned over time.

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emblem boy posted...

Why not just say eating less meat instead of specifying beans

Amino acid / protein intake.
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Science requires evidence and quantification, rather than utilizing your lay intuition. If scientists never studied things that seemed "intuitively obvious", we would have a very different, and much less sophisticated understanding of our natural world.
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Even aliens love cows, people. They abduct them and eat them all the time!

#thetruthisoutthere
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It's kind of an obvious conclusion, still a lot of people don't think of the difference in resources required for growing and maintaining livestock compared to just growing vegetable gardens. We could dramatically decrease our contribution to the current situation, if we organized our meals around this and significantly cut down on meat consumption. I doubt all of us going vegetarian would be enough though.
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This will just transfer the methane output from cow farts to human farts.

But seriously, that's great and all, but no one wants to eat a bowl of beans when they could have a pot of roast or a nice steak.
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