#nowweknow From the piece: Beef, goat and sheep production requires more than 20 times more land and generates more than 20 times more greenhouse gas emissions than pulses, a plant that is in the legume family — dry beans, dry peas, chickpeas, lentils — per gram of protein, according to the report….Beef alone is responsible for 41% of livestock greenhouse gas emissions, and that livestock accounts for 14.5% of total global emissions, according to the UN. That’s more than direct emissions from the transportation sector. In the US, beef only accounts for about 3% of the calories in the average US diet, but it uses 43% of US land used for agriculture, according to the report.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/17/health/beef-environment-resources-report/
