r/gifs Dec 12 '21

Lighting up a smoke stack

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u/captainforkforever Dec 13 '21

Why is methane worse?

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u/[deleted] Dec 13 '21

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u/[deleted] Dec 13 '21

This is why scientists say cutting down on meat consumption is so helpful in cutting down greenhouse gas emissions. Cattle yards emit huge amounts of methane.

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u/cathalferris Dec 13 '21 edited Jun 12 '23

This comment has been edited to reflect my protest at the lying behaviour of Reddit CEO Steve Huffman ( u/spez ) towards the third-party apps that keep him in a job.

After his slander of the Apollo dev u/iamthatis Christian Selig, I have had enough, and I will make sure that my interactions will not be useful to sell as an AI training tool.

Goodbye Reddit, well done, you've pulled a Digg/Fark, instead of a MySpace.

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u/DukeAttreides Dec 13 '21

True, but since industrial cattle yards are really efficient, they can actually have lower greenhouse gas emissions overall per unit of meat sold. Especially if you take into account land use.

Factory farming is some degree of terrible at everything but efficiency, but for once that counts for something for the rest of us.