Beef is Bad for the Climate… But How Bad? | Hot Mess 🌎

Disappointed you didn't share the mushroom burger recipe ;-;

A second part of this video would be great to look into the current state of Lab grown meat and how that might help/hurt/change the situation.

So you're telling me, all those millions of years of ruminants roaming the planet never increased gas emissions on Earth? It just started doing that now?

I'm the daughter, granddaughter and great-granddaughter of cattle ranchers and I love me some grass-fed, home-grown beef but I also love our planet so we've substituted most of our beef recipes for other protein sources. Thanks for another great one, Hot Mess!

GHG emissions : 28,5% cars, 28,4% electricity generation, 21,6% industry, 6,4% commercial, 5,1% residental, 4,7% ag crops, 3,9% ag livestock , source : US EPA

My eyes nearly popped out of their sockets when you said feedlot production is better than grassfed for climate impacts. That's absolutely false. Well-managed, intensively grazed cattle (moved every day to a new paddock, in a concentrated herd to mimic wild herding ruminants) is negative on greenhouse emissions because it stimulates the growth of perennial grasses which store carbon in their roots and cause soil formation. This is how generations of buffalo herding across the great plains created all of that deep, fertile soils that corn and soy farmers are now mining to grow the inputs for feedlot production. Feedlot production of beef is inhumane, reliant on antibiotics and environmentally devastating--both because of the pollution caused by the concentration of manure in the feedlot and all of the energy inputs in trucking it takes to move the cows there, move the cows out, grow the feed with massive diesel-powered tractors, deliver the feed with massive diesel-powered trucks and so-on. A well-run grazing operation doesn't even need a tractor because you don't have to plant every season, you don't have to combine every season and you don't need to truck cows around, either. I can't believe you just encouraged your viewers to support that system it's incredibly irresponsible. I urge you to do more research into regenerative agriculture and the ecological logic of management intensive grazing and issue a retraction for this video.

Eating a steak while watching this..

3:33 If temperatures are rising and beef consumption has actually decreased...why are we even talking about replacing beef?

Great video. I had my doubt about this host in the beginning, she felt a bit awkward, but you're really knocking it out of the park and your delivery is on point!

Methane also comes from plant food decomposing in landfills. Humans eat beef. There will always be methane.

Hey, It would be wonderful if you posted sources for all of these facts for further reading, transparency aswell as to be used in arguments and discussions.

1:03 1.4 billion cows burping methane. Cows are responsible for 1/10th of all human related emissions? Most of these emissions are due to cows being raised for their beef? So it's not the cows that are the problem. It is the carbon & methane emissions given off from the dead trees we cut down to allow cows to graze?. Methane burps? 1:50 Where is the science/proof behind the claim that a bunch of cows raised on a farm is causing Co2 emissions from degredation of soil?

Or...everyone makes less children...scale would change everything...

I was hoping you'd provide the mushroom burger recipe. Very relevant topic.

Interesting. Should not be such a big deal for me to cut the beef consumption by 50%. Will try.

It's also so that especially in tropical regions, cutting down all the trees in an area for cows exposes the ground to the rain which very quickly (in just a few years) washes away every last piece of nutrients in the soil that was there, forcing the cows for be moved to another area where trees get chopped down again because the grass won't grow anymore as there's no trees protecting the ground from the harsh rainfalls.

YAY, I have been waiting for this video. This is the one you said you were making when you replied to my comment I think. I think they found that feeding cows seaweed reduced their methane emissions by 99%. I think that could be one way of reducing the impact, but we seriously just need to eat less beef.

Great video!

We would like to invite you to Colorado to discuss how everything you mentioned in this video is incredibly one sided and only relevant to a food factory style of confinement based agriculture. #Regenerative Agriculture is different way of agriculture that is the complete opposite of everything said in this video. Ecology based regenerative agriculture is actually reversing climate change through grazing livestock. Please come visit us and lets do a video on how meat and different grazing land based practices can heal the planet rather than destroy it .

Let’s remember that methane breaks down into CO2 within eight years, and comparing grass fed cattle with feed lot cattle shows a big difference in carbon foot prints. Raising cattle on nonarable land and using cross fencing to avoid over grazing and to ensure maximum grass growth to build up the soil is desirable. Feedlots are the problem