[makerofspoons]

The problem is the animals eating feed grown with fossil fuel derived fertilizers: https://climate.mit.edu/explainers/fertilizer-and-climate-ch...

Cattle eating grass is one thing- industrial feed lots are another and they're needed to produce beef at the scale humans are eating it.

[dijit]

It cant possibly be as simple as that can it?

What’s wrong with banning those feeds and letting the price normalise causing the rate of consumption to drop to sustainable levels?

I must be missing something?

[thinkcontext]

The people that like cheap meat won't like that, a lot.

Ag lobbies are powerful enough no one in the US would dare propose anything like that. Even in climate conscious EU a much more modest, roundabout way of addressing part of the problem of ag emissions (nitrate levels) has been met with massive farmer protests.

[uoaei]

You're missing politics.

Oil+gas companies, and fertilizer producers, are deep in the supply chain and are thus embedded in the governing bodies (because no country is very good at preventing corruption). Things only change when those companies let them change.

[dijit]

that. is… upsetting.