What I've Learned or What I've Lied About? Eating less meat won't save the planet. Debunked.

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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/environment/blog/2010/mar/24/un-meat-report-climate-change
Dr. Frank Mittloehner criticism:https://clf.jhsph.edu/sites/default/files/2019-04/frank-mitloehner-white-paper-letter.pdf
Land used for animal feed versus land used for plants directly for human consumption: https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-us-land-use/
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/E10301
Robin White quote: https://amp.realagriculture.com/2019/01/what-would-agriculture-look-like-without-livestock/
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/2018/03/Feedlot-Diet-White-and-Hall-2017-Response.pdf
Beef only provides 3% of calories and also uses half of agricultural land: https://wriorg.s3.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/creating-sustainable-food-future_2.pdf
Half of agricultural land is about 20% of the entire landmass of the UK: https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-us-land-use/
Life-cycle analysis shows beef is 3.7% of total emissions: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0308521X18305675?via%3Dihub#bb0005
Agricultural methane emissions could be being underestimated: https://www.issuelab.org/resources/36458/36458.pdf
US agricultural emissions would be reduced by somewhere between 61% to 73% if the US went plant-based: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/360/6392/987.full
Agriculture emissions in the US are 10.5% of total emissions: https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/natural-resources-environment/climate-change/
Restoring agricultural land could sequester 8.1 billion tons of CO2 each year: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/360/6392/987.full
Per capita agricultural land is twice the world average: https://ourworldindata.org/land-use
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/files/2018-01/documents/2018_complete_report.pdf
Joseph’s source that shows crop farming uses less blue water than animal farming: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/254859487_The_green_blue_and_grey_water_footprint_of_farm_animals_and_animal_products
Animal farming uses significantly more blue water in California: https://pacinst.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/21/2013/02/ca_ftprint_full_report3.pdf
Joseph’s source that says that plant-based diets are better for the environment: https://waterfootprint.org/media/downloads/Fulton-et-al-2018.pdf
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/publication/254859487_The_green_blue_and_grey_water_footprint_of_farm_animals_and_animal_products

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