'We cannot afford to keep trying to feed people on livestock products - there's simply no good way of feeding everyone'
A plant-based diet is 'the only way' to feed the planet's growing population, an environmental activist has said.
"The process emissions - the methane from the cattle, nitrous oxide from the cattle's dung plus the farm's operations - massively outweigh any greenhouse gasses stored in the soil. "They also emit a small amount of methane which is a natural process but we have to look where did that carbon dioxide and methane come from?"Mr Drennan said the process is part of a natural cycle.
"With the grass-growing cycle at least there's a debit and a credit, so comparing the two is like apples and oranges"."The debt massively outweighs the credit - you're producing on a cattle farm far more greenhouse gasses," he said. "Wild natural forests when they grow up and the tree falls over and dies... whatever carbon it has sequestered in its lifetime if it's left there to rot will release all that carbon back into the atmosphere."There's over eight billion people on the planet and growing rapidly and we have to find a source of nutritious food for those people."Mr Monbiot acknowledged that fossil fuels need to be moved away from in general.
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