Significantly reducing, and finally eliminating, animal agriculture is the most effective strategy to minimize the sector's greenhouse gas impact. While this may sound "extreme," the state of industrial animal agriculture marked by brutal CAFOs, pathogen-infected waste lagoons, and massive land and feed inputs is much more so.Â
This isn't to argue that putting an end to animal agriculture will be simple. Because more people are switching to plant-based diets, demand will have to fall. The ease with which these diets can be adopted varies by individual.Â
Many low-income areas in the United States are designated as food deserts, where the lack of grocery shops leads residents to rely on relatively restricted options, such as gas stations.
Agriculture may easily be humanity's gravest error since it may be our undoing due to its tremendous impacts on the climate and ecosystems around the planet.Â
Unless greenhouse gas emissions are drastically reduced, the planet will become a much more difficult environment to live in. Reducing animal agriculture demand and switching to a plant-based diet are two of the most essential steps anyone can take.
