How much worse is beef for the environment than for cars

How much worse is beef for the environment than for cars

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It's easy to think that the environmental comparison between cars and burgers might be silly.

When driving a car, you can easily see gas smoke flying into the sky from the beginning.

However, roasting beef on a hot summer day has an even bigger impact than you may not be aware of!

Let's see why there is such a big difference between beef and beef.

Beef maggots are very poisonous!

While the negative effects of beef come from total production, even their lice are deadly!

According to the United Nations, the combination of burping and fart accounts for at least 4% of total greenhouse gas emissions.

Why is this?

Science tells us that methane, found in heartburn and fart, retains heat in the atmosphere better than CO2.

So while cars can emit more CO2 by volume, the methane is 23 times stronger, meaning cows will do more harm.

In other words, the cows produce 4 tons of CO2 equivalent environmental damage!

Seeds and Grass.

Part of the problem is what cows need to eat and how they are processed.

When cows are raised for meat production, the goal is to get as much meat from the cow as quickly as possible.

Cows are often fed cereal instead of grass to speed production.

However, their body's slow digestive system is designed to digest grass, not grains.

Grains fed to animals are just another matter.

This impact is indirect, but it is there!

Buying grass-fed beef means their methane emissions are less potent and require less nitrogen, although even then Mother Nature is inferior to any other meat product.

CO2 plays its role.

Once the meat is ready from the farm, it needs to go from the slaughterhouse, to the processing center, then finally to your grocery store.

Being transported multiple times means the harmful effects from an 18-wheeled vehicle will go into the air multiple times.

More carbon dioxide burns into the atmosphere per pound of beef than burns a gallon of gasoline.

Overall, production is just a burger releasing the equivalent amount of greenhouse gases like driving almost 200 miles.

Beef production is more harmful than any other meat.

So delicious, compared to other animals, red meat requires 28 times more land than pork or chicken

The first obvious reason is that cows are usually bigger!

Plants and trees are extremely helpful in helping the earth convert CO2 into oxygen.

But there's only one other issue to add to the endless list, and that grazing is a major factor in global deforestation.

It has been determined that 80% of deforestation in the Amazon is due to grazing.

In addition, overgrazing is turning a fifth of the total grassland and range into deserts.

At a time when we need oxygen more than ever, swapping it for methane is not good!

Rain is not always a good thing.

A little-known fact about beef is that they are responsible for making two-thirds of the ammonia released into the atmosphere, feces and urine release ammonia into the air.

Since thousands of cows are bred on farms, this results in concentrated ammonia gas, which in turn produces acid rain.

When we think of acid rain, our minds can think of a dramatic spectacle of rain falling from the sky and burning our skin.

However, it is usually only harmful to plants, animals, or soil, so we don't hear about it as often as we don't see results directly.

However, cows still play an important role in this that should not be ignored.

How does this compare to cars?

By volume, cars emit more CO2 than cows emit methane.

So while cars can produce more CO2 by volume than methane, methane is even more problematic.

For some perspective, let's compare the average amount of methane produced by the cow to the equivalent amount of methane.

Every year, cattle emit CO2 equivalent to two billion tons of CO2 per year.

On the other hand, on average each year the vehicle can only produce 2.7 tons.

Automotive emissions decrease, beef emissions increase

Thanks to the efforts of people like Elon Musk, people are geared toward driving electric cars or cars that save gas more than people who are addicted to gasoline.

On the contrary, global poverty is getting less and less, which is great!

But as people make more money, they can also buy more meat products, including beef.

Don't blame the cows!

Although cows are the cause of many problems, it's not their fault!

That doesn't mean cows have to go extinct to save the earth, but man-made grazing and overgrazing need to be drastically reduced.

If they were left alone, the overpopulation would not be a problem.

The combined efforts of cow feed, fart, transport and deforestation, are all issues to be addressed.

And while the switch to a meat-free diet is ideal for everyone, it doesn't always make sense.

So at the very least, cutting your beef intake down to no more than once a week, or even not, will be beneficial to the earth and therefore for humans in general.

So next time you choose a hamburger, you might consider switching to chicken!