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- Install this app on your parent's phone right now!!! (A minor deficiency, it's not open source, so 9/10 for me)
- Thanks! The open source comment is not something we’ve heard a lot or given much thought to yet 😅 interesting
- Fact 1: Cows are the heaviest group of mammals on Earth 🐄 Fact 2: Beef has a 5x higher carbon footprint than pork or chicken 🥩 If you combine these facts you start to understand how beef causes by far the emissions in the food system.
- 🤯 This stat changed my perspective of Earth: chickens weigh more than all elephants, bison, zebras, and all other wild land mammals *combined*. And chickens are not even the heaviest group of farm animals we have...
- Source: Bar-On, Y. M., Phillips, R., & Milo, R. (2018). The biomass distribution on Earth. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115(25), 6506-6511.
- Every minute, 23 football fields of forest are lost. Almost all of it is rainforest and the main cause is consumption of meat: beef as you can see in the infographic. And a large part of that 'soy and palm oil' block is also for meat because pretty much all deforestation soy is used as animal feed.
- This is from @projectdrawdown.bsky.social, which calculated the 80 most effective solutions for climate change. We're inspired by the fact that some very human solutions can save a lot more CO2 than technology. It’s all about finding a new way of living that is in harmony with nature.