RE: Cattlemen denied the sole use of the term meat?21 Sep 2021 17:13
RWT2: the seaweed additives for cows only reduce UP TO 55% of methane emissions from cows. Those methane emissions are only about a third of the total emissions from livestock, so it's actually UP TO 1/6 of the total emissions, which is nowhere near enough.
But most importantly, GHG emissions are only just one of the impacts from livestock. Equally important are the massive amount of space needed for them and their food, their water consumption, the pollution they create and the problem with antibiotic resistance. And THEN there is JUST the matter of animal welfare (which in many people's eyes is the most important one).
All in all this means that some seaweed additive is almost negligable when you consider the total absolutely disastrous effect of this industry.
The space they need means that my country (the UK) is basically one giant meat and dairy farm with almost no space for nature left). I wnat to see this country rewilded on a massive scale and that is not going to happen while everybody is still consuming so much meat and dairy - lab grown can massively impove this situation.
More and more young people are aware of all these impacts, not just GHG emissions.