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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.
Mar 4, 2024 · If everyone shifted to a plant-based diet, we would reduce global land use for agriculture by 75%. This shows just how much of today’s agricultural land use and destruction of biodiversity is due to our consumption of animals and their products.
Mar 4, 2021 · As a rule of thumb: smaller animals are more efficient. That’s why chicken and fish tend to have a lower environmental impact. This is why eating less meat would mean eliminating large losses of calories and thereby reducing the amount of farmland we need.
Apr 20, 2016 · Production of animal-based foods accounted for more than three-quarters of global agricultural land use and around two-thirds of agriculture’s production-related greenhouse gas emissions in 2009, while only contributing 37 percent of total protein consumed by people in that year.
Mar 22, 2017 · From a sales/value perspective, animal-based agriculture has a value 9% higher than plant-based agriculture. The sales/value difference equals $34.7 billion, with the animal-based agriculture...
Mar 26, 2018 · The calculations presented here show that favoring plant-based diets over less efficient animal-based ones can potentially feed more humans than complete elimination of conventional food losses. Surprisingly, this holds even for the most efficient livestock categories, eggs and poultry.
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The worldwide phase out of animal agriculture, combined with a global switch to a plant-based diet, would effectively halt the increase of atmospheric greenhouse gases for 30 years and give humanity more time to end its reliance on fossil fuels, according to a new study by scientists from Stanford University and the University of California, Ber...
