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Beef costs 60 kg of co2 to produce 1 kg of meat. Fruits an plants still release carbon in production, but much less.

Source:https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidrvetter/2020/10/05/got-beef-heres-what-your-hamburger-is-doing-to-the-climate/?sh=3d3933715206

Edit:Grammar

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first, i am suspicious of those numbers, and don’t think they tell teh whole story.

even if they did, cutting out meat from my diet would have no impact at all.

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Your skepticism based on nothing. Giving them your money supports their negative impact.

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i know for a fact that a meat eater died ten years ago. since then, the meat production has only risen. i could literally die and never buy another animal product, and it would not change the industry.

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People underestimate just how intensely wasteful meat is, at least the average meat you find in a grocery store. There is a few exceptions like fishing it yourself but even that is getting unfeasible with how high demand is in the general population

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