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What Vegan Street hasn’t told us is the huge variabilities that can make a difference between a bumper crop and a massive crop failure. The other thing that Vegan Street hasn’t ever told us is the distinct advantage that livestock has compared to crops is simply legs vs. roots.
Mar 4, 2021 · Research suggests that if everyone shifted to a plant-based diet, we would reduce global land use for agriculture by 75%. This large reduction of agricultural land use would be possible thanks to a reduction in land used for grazing and a smaller need for land to grow crops.
Feb 4, 2020 · If I source my beef or lamb from low-impact producers, could they have a lower footprint than plant-based alternatives?The evidence suggests, no: plant-based foods emit fewer greenhouse gases than meat and dairy, regardless of how they are produced.
Jul 4, 2017 · What they find in their analysis is hard to debate: plant-based agriculture generates around 1.5 trillion more pounds of “product” than animal agriculture. And it does so more efficiently. This is because plant-based agriculture uses 115 million acres less land.
Sep 12, 2023 · Here, the authors use a modelling approach to show that replacing 50% of pork, chicken, beef and milk globally with plant-based alternatives can reduce GHG emissions by 6.3 Gt CO2eq year-1...
May 12, 2022 · In our analysis, directly substituting beef with other animal products (BEEF10 scenario) resulted in 2–5 times more pigs and chickens than replacing beef with plant-based alternatives (ALTP10 scenario).
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Apr 20, 2016 · Because many animal-based foods rely on crops for feed, increased demand for animal-based foods widens the food gap relative to increased demand for plant-based foods. This chart is based on data from the Working Paper, Shifting Diets for a Sustainable Food Future.
