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Originally Posted by blankall
The thing they never seem to take into account in this whole meat consumption is bad thing is that the emisssions from the cows are coming from a renewable source. Yes the cows emit greenhouse gases. Those greenhouse gases are then recouped when new wheat is grown a small portion of that wheat ends up sequestered underneath the ground. As far as I can see the only way that wheat wuold contribute more to GHGs would be if the cattle feed you were using had to be transported large distances.
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Or if all the commercial pestisides and some of the fertilizers you used were petroleum based....which they are.