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Hi, I'm leaky. Hi, I'm Jen, what are your thoughts right now? What are we talking about now? We are going to talk about how becoming vegetarian or vegan can help the carbon problem. Oh, you say something that made me laugh. maybe you can say that again. I said, right, right off the bat, you don't have to go cold Turkey. And you don't have to become vegetarian or vegan to make a difference. You can just start a little bit at a time, but what is the problem with meat? Well, we have. Basically three kinds of meat that are part of the food industry. I mean, there's lots of different kinds of meat, but, but some of the biggest defenders are cows and pigs and poultry. And, uh, I think, uh, sheep may be a little bit. Less. So they take an awful lot of, uh, resources to feed mm-hmm and then cows, particularly their digestive system produces methane, which is a greenhouse gas, which is far more potent than carbon dioxide. And then their manure, their poop emits. Additional greenhouse gases and they take a ton of land. So there are so many reasons why cows, although I think cows are fantastic creatures and I love cows I don't wanna eat them you don't want to eat because it takes a lot of land to, uh, for them to live and because they poop. Default well, every creature does that. The default is even worse than. Regular. Yeah. Well, and just some of the ways there are some humane treatment of, of animals out there, but the factory farming is a problem in multiple ways. There's just a lot of things that mean that, you know, choosing food that comes from a cow can be a choice that isn't the best for the planet. So, so. We're talking about meat, but also there is, right? Yeah. And I love cheese. I'm not, you know, I, I can't, it doesn't love me, so I can't eat very much of it. And most of the time in our house, we are major for the majority. We are plant based. Although we call ourselves flexitarians because we have one vegan, we have one vegetarian and we have a couple who are sort of flex on that. And by that, you know, we bought it, had a Turkey at our Easter. Turkey dinner, but we also had vegetarian and vegan options. We don't buy milk. We use oat milk. We use plant based milk. We do other things. Um, but it's not, we're not a hundred percent in our family either. So we try to be the majority of the time, try to be plant based mm-hmm and once in a while, yeah. Who doesn't enjoy, you know, having. A piece of steak or having something else. So it's a little bit of a dance, I think. Uh, but our attempt is to reduce the carbon footprint as much as possible and not get things that will damage the plant. Yeah. I think I've read somewhere that at the world scale, uh, we are eating more and more meat as compared to some time ago that as a population gets richer, have more money. We are spending more money on. Meat and, um, and we want people to be rich and have more resources, but it means that we are eating more meat well, and, and it's not even just the, the consumption of it. It's the production of it. Yeah. So, you know, a chicken breast, one chicken breast, I read takes 735 liters of water to produce really. That's a lot of water. Mm-hmm and that's a lot of water that'll fill bathtubs. Yeah. You know, four, four and a half times. So that's a lot of water and what's happened is that some of the ways that chickens are, are treated are just. I mean, I can't even I don't think I've had chicken in a really long time and I like chicken, you know, mm-hmm but it's just the thought of how they're produced. That's a bit hard to take. So
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Hi, I'm leaky. Hi, I'm Jen, what are your thoughts right now? What are we talking about now? We are going to talk about how becoming vegetarian or vegan can help the carbon problem. Oh, you say something that made me laugh. maybe you can say that again. I said, right, right off the bat, you don't have to go cold Turkey. And you don't have to become vegetarian or vegan to make a difference. You can just start a little bit at a time, but what is the problem with meat? Well, we have. Basically three kinds of meat that are part of the food industry. I mean, there's lots of different kinds of meat, but, but some of the biggest defenders are cows and pigs and poultry. And, uh, I think, uh, sheep may be a little bit. Less. So they take an awful lot of, uh, resources to feed mm-hmm and then cows, particularly their digestive system produces methane, which is a greenhouse gas, which is far more potent than carbon dioxide. And then their manure, their poop emits. Additional greenhouse gases and they take a ton of land. So there are so many reasons why cows, although I think cows are fantastic creatures and I love cows I don't wanna eat them you don't want to eat because it takes a lot of land to, uh, for them to live and because they poop. Default well, every creature does that. The default is even worse than. Regular. Yeah. Well, and just some of the ways there are some humane treatment of, of animals out there, but the factory farming is a problem in multiple ways. There's just a lot of things that mean that, you know, choosing food that comes from a cow can be a choice that isn't the best for the planet. So, so. We're talking about meat, but also there is, right? Yeah. And I love cheese. I'm not, you know, I, I can't, it doesn't love me, so I can't eat very much of it. And most of the time in our house, we are major for the majority. We are plant based. Although we call ourselves flexitarians because we have one vegan, we have one vegetarian and we have a couple who are sort of flex on that. And by that, you know, we bought it, had a Turkey at our Easter. Turkey dinner, but we also had vegetarian and vegan options. We don't buy milk. We use oat milk. We use plant based milk. We do other things. Um, but it's not, we're not a hundred percent in our family either. So we try to be the majority of the time, try to be plant based mm-hmm and once in a while, yeah. Who doesn't enjoy, you know, having. A piece of steak or having something else. So it's a little bit of a dance, I think. Uh, but our attempt is to reduce the carbon footprint as much as possible and not get things that will damage the plant. Yeah. I think I've read somewhere that at the world scale, uh, we are eating more and more meat as compared to some time ago that as a population gets richer, have more money. We are spending more money on. Meat and, um, and we want people to be rich and have more resources, but it means that we are eating more meat well, and, and it's not even just the, the consumption of it. It's the production of it. Yeah. So, you know, a chicken breast, one chicken breast, I read takes 735 liters of water to produce really. That's a lot of water. Mm-hmm and that's a lot of water that'll fill bathtubs. Yeah. You know, four, four and a half times. So that's a lot of water and what's happened is that some of the ways that chickens are, are treated are just. I mean, I can't even I don't think I've had chicken in a really long time and I like chicken, you know, mm-hmm but it's just the thought of how they're produced. That's a bit hard to take. So
LYNN:
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