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In reply to the discussion: Are you willing to consider giving up meat to reduce greenhouse gases causing climate change? [View all]jcgoldie
(11,847 posts)About 10 years ago we started raising dairy goats as well. Still have a small herd of Angus cows. We don't do it the mass produced way with hormones and regular antibiotic use and feedlots a foot deep in manure. After reading a lot about environmental impacts my wife and I have given up the steak 3 nights a week lifestyle in favor of switching over to Boer meat goats. Well its still more impact than you vegans. But goats are browsers whose environmental impact is far less than cattle on several levels. We do also keep a lot of bees so I hope that also offsets some of the environmental pressures of meat production. Oh and we also live in humid southern Illinois in a 150 year old farmhouse with no AC. I guess what I mean by that is we all make choices and impact the environment in different ways, it isn't black and white about just eating meat or not.