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TODAY'S VIDEO:
Fully debunking 'Eating less Meat won't save the Planet. Here's Why' a YouTube video full of misinformation uploaded by the channel 'What I've Learned'.
0:00 Intro
0:47 Who is Dr Frank Mittloehner?
1:50 Humans can't eat the food that animals eat?
5:20 Greenhouse gas emissions/2.6%/methane
18:49 Food waste
19:44 Water consumption/almonds/rice vs beef/liver
24:35 Joseph's intentions with this video
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SOURCES:
Dr. Frank Mittloehner paid by animal agriculture: https://www.theguardian.com/environme...
Dr. Frank Mittloehner criticism:https://clf.jhsph.edu/sites/default/f...
Land used for animal feed versus land used for plants directly for human consumption: https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/20...
Crop land for animals could feed another 350 million people: https://www.pnas.org/content/115/15/3804
The US going vegan would reduce emissions by only 2.6% study: https://www.pnas.org/content/114/48/E...
Robin White quote: https://amp.realagriculture.com/2019/...
Debunking of the 2.6% study: https://www.pnas.org/content/115/8/E1704
Further criticism of the 2.6% study: https://gfi.org/images/uploads/2018/0...
Beef only provides 3% of calories and also uses half of agricultural land: https://wriorg.s3.amazonaws.com/s3fs...
Half of agricultural land is about 20% of the entire landmass of the UK: https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/20...
Lifecycle analysis shows beef is 3.7% of total emissions: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...
Agricultural methane emissions could be being underestimated: https://www.issuelab.org/resources/36...
US agricultural emissions would be reduced by somewhere between 61% to 73% if the US went plantbased: https://science.sciencemag.org/conten...
Agriculture emissions in the US are 10.5% of total emissions: https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/natur...
Restoring agricultural land could sequester 8.1 billion tons of CO2 each year: https://science.sciencemag.org/conten...
Per capita agricultural land is twice the world average: https://ourworldindata.org/landuse
Methane is 86 times more potent than CO2 over a twenty year period: https://unece.org/challenge
US agricultural methane emissions increased nearly 20% between 1990 and 2016: https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/...
Joseph’s source that shows crop farming uses less blue water than animal farming: https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...
Animal farming uses significantly more blue water in California: https://pacinst.org/wpcontent/upload...
Joseph’s source that says that plantbased diets are better for the environment: https://waterfootprint.org/media/down...
Joseph’s source that shows how many tons of plants you could grow with the amount of blue water it takes to grow one ton of beef: https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...