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Yale Environment 360: Like plastic bags, coal, and SUVs, beef has few friends in the environmental community. Most environmentalists would point to beef -- in particular, beef cattle that spend their final days in confined feedlots -- as being responsible for an array of ills -- the greenhouse gas emissions that the cattle generate; the groundwater pollution from their manure; the use of antibiotics in animal feed; the vast quantities of monoculture corn grown to feed the cattle; and the enormous amount of chemical fertilizers......
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Should Environmentalists Just Say No to Eating Meat?
Posted by Yale Environment 360: Marc Gunther on December 6th, 2012
Posted in Water Conservation