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Researchers have been eavesdropping on an unusual family of crows in Spain, collecting data on hundreds of thousands of different sounds the birds made. Small microphones recorded a variety of soft calls, far quieter than the familiar 'caws' people usually hear. The team then used AI to analyse the sounds and group them together. The researchers hope is to one day be able to understand the meaning of the birds' vocalisations and perhaps even try to speak their language.

[–] veganpizza69@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago

"modern pig production"

Chilean-born Marco Evaristti is courting controversy to make a point about the treatment of pigs in Denmark, where about 25,000 piglets die daily as a result of the conditions in which they are bred.

wait until Marco finds out that they are bred to be killed.

[–] veganpizza69@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

Farmers who grow feed can also switch to growing food.

Slaughterhouses... maybe they can switch to growing fungi.

[–] veganpizza69@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

"Pastured" and "factory" are not opposites, they're the same thing with a different scale of intensity. There's no meaningful ethical difference, but there are points to make about the environment and the climate, such as the basic fact that "grass fed" means more enteric CH4 emissions, making "factory farming" better for the environment due to efficiency. No amount of "regenerative grazing" is going change that, the methane is tied to the amount of fiber in the rumen, and grasses & forbs are full of fiber.

For a more detailed explanation see: Grazed and Confused

Economically speaking is when you see how this is scam on meat eaters. Most of the animal flesh comes from CAFOs. That's not because grasslands are ugly and CAFOs are beautiful, it's because that's the most efficient way to exploit those animals, which means it's the most efficient way to keep production costs low, which means that it's the most efficient way to come to market with the lowest prices, which is how "the market" is expanded to a large part of the population (who expects cheap meat). The productive grasslands are already maxed out in most of the World and overgrazing is very common.

The US is plagued with ranchers going into natural parks and other places where they compete with wild herbivores (and call on state agencies to exterminate predators). Put simply, if CAFOs disappeared, then the average meat eater would find animal flesh to be very expensive - a food that is afforded a few times per month in "main dish" quantities, or even a few times per year (traditionally at Easter and Christmas holiday feasts). I would be glad to see that happen, but it wouldn't be enough, and it fails to teach the ethical lesson, to do the moral work. It only makes animal-based meat a more obvious luxury (it has always been one), creating black markets and creating economic demand to deforest land and to occupy cropland and turn it into pasture -- and that's something that wars have been fought for, for thousands of years.

The only sensible option is to go vegan globally (don't let animal farmers get away with exports). That frees up plenty of cropland to be reforested or used in more extensive ways.

 

by Wisecrack

Are Family Values Fascist?

Recently a number of right-wing figures have become obsessed with children, whether it's having lots of them on their own, or creating a moral imperative for the rest of us to reproduce. So are they just really into the idea of spreading their own genetic code, or is there something more insidious going on? We'll explain in this video on the right-wing obsession with having children.

[–] veganpizza69@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

The OOP needs understand that there's a "too". To serve himself too.

[–] veganpizza69@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Make NASA Great Again

MNASAGA

[–] veganpizza69@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It means that you are comparing apples to orange trees. You do not understand what the challenges are and what the require effort is.

[–] veganpizza69@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (3 children)

SO₂ is not the same functionally in the economies as CO₂, just like the ozone destroying gases aren't teh same functionally in the economies as CO₂.

You are breathing optimism like oxygen in an oxygen poor environment.

[–] veganpizza69@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Do you see the global GHG emissions going down? Actually down.

Do you know when the targets for ZERO are and what the downwards angle has to be?

Good luck with your optimism.

 

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Study on their greenhouse gas emissions and climate commitments

With this study, we are providing for the first time a calculation of the GHG emissions from the ten surveyed slaughter and dairy companies in Germany, including discussing their general climate-related obligations – such as those from sustainability reporting in the course of the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD).

We show, among other things, that the emissions of the ten most selling slaughter companies and the ten highest-grossing dairy companies in 2022 corresponded to around 61% of the emissions cast in Germany in Germany in the same year. If the opportunity costs are taken into account in the calculation, then the issues of the companies will even increase to 1.5 times the passenger car emissions.

We also take a closer look at previous climate protection-related self-discreet data from the two market leaders, Tönnies and DMK Deutsches Milchkontor, and we also come to the conclusion that these two companies in particular still have to improve significantly in terms of completeness, transparency and coherence.

PDF (DE): https://www.germanwatch.org/sites/default/files/germanwatch_super-emittenten_in_der_fleisch-_und_milchwirtschaft_0.pdf

[–] veganpizza69@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (7 children)

It's a conflict of interest, it will go wrong or the system will be cancelled.

[–] veganpizza69@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (9 children)

I don't think that selling licenses to pollute is a good strategy to reduce pollution (it needs to be reduced to zero ASAP).

 
 
 
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