Cattle, Cowboys & Climate Chaos
https://ethicalrevolution.co.uk/cattle-cowboys-climate-chaos/
In recent decades, scientists have warned that industrial meat production, and beef in particular, fuels climate change and leads to deforestation, soil erosion, species extinction, ocean dead zones and high levels of methane emissions.
Yet today’s average American still eats three hamburgers per week! 🤯 🐮 🤮
The rise of an extensive and powerful American beef industry thanks to the near-elimination of bison across the United States in the 19th century led to beef becoming a marker of American identity.
Over a century later is now the time to forge a new identity?
Certainly if we’re hoping to avoid the impending destruction of society-as-we-know-it a lot of us are going to have to address the cow in the room.
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