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New study finds that far less than half of Brazil's and US calorie production is directly for human food, Europe 50%, Africa, India 80%. The rest is for animal feed and transport fuel. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2976-601X/ae4f6b So that the rich with their cars & private jets and thousandS of tons in annual CO2 emissions also starve people! #EatTheRich #1789 I also often like to share Hayek et al 2021 who calculated how much CO2 the land sink would draw down if animal agriculture ends and the space be re-conquered by the original biome https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-020-00603-4 That alone could be >700Gt CO2 within 30 years, up to a whopping 23Gt each year! Plus the avoided methane and nitrogen emissions. So the rewilding of land used for animal farming today might mean -0.4°C.…!!!!! And ocean acidification and nitrogen leeching is halted as well. What's not to like? And now add the plants burnt as jet fuel… And add the re-wetted peatland used as pasture today that stops their active CO2 emissions and might even revert them back into actively storing ever new carbon for thousands of years… Just by avoiding burgers and Feta! #climateChange #vegan #carbonsink