I heard something to do with Nitrogen and …cow farts(?) I am really unsure of this and would like to learn more.

Answer -

4 Parts

  • Ethical reason for consuming animals
  • Methane produced by cows are a harmful greenhouse gas which is contributing to our current climate crisis
  • Health Reasons - there is convincing evidence that processed meats cause cancer
  • it takes a lot more calories of plant food to produce the calories we would consume from the meat.

Details about the answers are in the comments

  • goforliftoff@lemm.ee
    301·
    11 months ago

    I remember driving through Iowa and seeing vast fields of corn and learning that the majority of that corn was not even destined for human consumption. That kinda blew my mind.

    • rog@lemmy.one
      11·
      11 months ago

      Luckily there is still enough left over to poison the population with high fructose corn syrup

    • Dr. Coomer@lemmy.world
      1·
      10 months ago

      You wanna know another fact? Not all corn can be consumed by humans. There is actually corn that can only be eaten by animals like cows.