{"id":580,"date":"2019-03-25T11:22:49","date_gmt":"2019-03-25T10:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theoscience.org\/?p=580"},"modified":"2019-03-25T12:03:01","modified_gmt":"2019-03-25T11:03:01","slug":"meat-production-affecting-the-eco-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/index.php\/2019\/03\/25\/meat-production-affecting-the-eco-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Meat Production affecting the eco-system"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Earth Science, Health and Medicine<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Date: November, 2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: <em>The Lancet<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"955\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/pigs_0.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-596\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/pigs_0.jpg 955w, https:\/\/theoscience.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/pigs_0-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theoscience.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/pigs_0-768x402.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Meat production doesn&#8217;t just affect the ecosystem by production of gases, and study now question the  system of production&#8217;s direct effect on global freshwater use, change in land use, and ocean acidification. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/science.sciencemag.org\/content\/360\/6392\/987\" target=\"_blank\">A recent paper in Science<\/a>  claims that even the lowest-impact meat causes \u201cmuch more\u201d  environmental impact than the least sustainable forms of plant and  vegetable production. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another study  from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/lanonc\/article\/PIIS1470-2045%2815%2900444-1\/fulltext\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">the International Agency For Research On Cancer assessment<\/a> has identified a \u201cstrong\u201d link between red meat and the mechanistic evidence for carcinogenicity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Read more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/lancet\/article\/PIIS0140-6736(18)32971-4\/fulltext\">https:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/lancet\/article\/PIIS0140-6736(18)32971-4\/fulltext<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earth Science, Health and Medicine Date: November, 2018 Source: The Lancet Meat production doesn&#8217;t just affect the ecosystem by production of gases, and study now question the system of production&#8217;s direct effect on global freshwater use, change in land use, and ocean acidification. A recent paper in Science claims that even the lowest-impact meat causes &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/index.php\/2019\/03\/25\/meat-production-affecting-the-eco-system\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Meat Production affecting the eco-system&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earth-sciences","category-medicine-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=580"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":597,"href":"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580\/revisions\/597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}