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The text sites this "51%" of greenhouse gas emissions globally.

It comes from here: http://www.worldwatch.org/files/pdf/Livestock%20and%20Climat...

I can cut this short for you. It's a lie dressed as calculation.

It calculates cow breathing for instance. And more heat produced while cooking meat compared to vegetables. Still they don't really show you the numbers.

EDIT: http://beyondmeat.com/ doesn't state how large environmental effect their product has.



Its like nearly all statistics, I have learned to ignore the large part of them. I hate it when people drop percentages based on correlations which they don't reference the actual methods. In my opinion, its what defines bad media/writing.




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