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Beef produces 85 kg CO2e per kg of food. Tofu produces 2.9 kg CO2e per kg of food.
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this post was submitted on 16 Apr 2024
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this is splitting hairs.
Is it fuck. You complained about their methodology and then went on to cite an example of a problematic methodology that they simply did not use. You have not read the paper.
I have and you are splitting hairs about this
Alright, point me to the page of the study or the line of the database that counts the full water usage of cottonseed in beef production. Should be easy for you.
you know as well as I do that the meta analysis is depending on studies that do exactly what I said, and relying on papers that employ a flawed methodology is, itself, a flawed methodology.
I already gave you an example of one of the papers it's relying on, and it clearly isn't doing that. Which ones are?
I'm on mobile rn. can you link the bibliography