Eat beef, save the planet https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/08/eat-beef-save-the-planet/
Some good arguments to use with the "eet ze bugs" crowd:
"... Blood and bone from cattle is used as a fertiliser and is sequestered in soil. Cattle skins are used to make leather which is sequestered into footwear and other leather goods. The whole process of going from grass to grave involves a carbon cycle and short-term sequestration of carbon atoms.
The number of carbon atoms returned to the atmosphere from beef farming is less than that removed by grass growth. Therefore, cattle farming and eating beef is a carbon sequestration process. If the popular mantra is used, we are saving the planet by eating beef. ...
It is absolute nonsense to claim that beef farming accelerates hypothetical global warming. Carbon atoms are just being recycled. We are being conned with a scare campaign by unelected climate activists who want to control every aspect of our lives, including the source of our animal protein."
In the US, 30 million cattle today is less than 60 million bison in their heyday.
The average lifespan to slaughter is probably much shorter.
I will eat rib eye and be happy.
Eat beef, feed your patriot brain
Unelected and uneducated.
The Vegetarian Myth by Lierre Keith is a good book to read about it all, too.
The fact is that mono-agriculture is the biggest threat to the planet - clear cutting forests, mineral depletion in the soil, the fossil fuels to harvest (if you care about fossil fuels), etc etc.
Livestock can thrive on rocky and uneven land that can't be used for growing anything.
This was a handy tid bit also:
"If beef is replaced on the menu by insects, then I’ll pass. I will get all my nutrients from 47 pints of Guinness, 2 glasses of milk, and one of orange juice each day."
and how many cricket skins will be needed to make a shoe?
If you have cricket skin shoes, when you walk will they chirp like crickets?