People Still Don't Get the Link between Meat Consumption and Climate Change

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5. It doesn't wash with me

unless they are talking about the fossil carbon foot print for raising, shipping and processing meat as opposed to that of plants grown for human consumption. The methane and CO2 from livestock production is part of a natural cycle. The feed they eat drew carbon out of the air. When plants decay, are burned or consumed that carbon is released back into the air. It is all part of a natural cycle. Get rid of ranches and it will still happen. Trees are thought of as a carbon sink but that carbon is only sequestered until the wood rots or is burned. The carbon goes back into the air.

There are arguments to be made that a plant based diet makes economic sense and ethical reasons for the same, but it doesn't wash with causing climate change. The only way to break that natural cycle is to eliminate life on earth. That would save us from climate change-oh wait we would not be here.