Does eating more eggs and diary cause more environmental damage than eating meat?
Great question, I have never seen anywhere that disaggregates the environmental damage between dairy, eggs and meat, usually the research is clumped together except when discussing health issues. I like facts, like the ones quoted below, but as I can’t find any relevant research on why eggs and diary specifically cause more environmental damage than eating meat I am going to make some educated guesses on this one. Facts: ‘1 Factory farms produce massive amounts of dust and other contamination that pollutes our air. A study in Texas found that animal feedlots in the state produce more than 14 million pounds of particulate dust every year and that the dust “contains biologically active organisms such as bacteria, mold, and fungi from the feces and the feed.” 2 According to the nonprofit group Greenpeace, all the wild animals and trees in more than 2.9 million acres of rainforest were destroyed in the 2004-2005 crop season in order to grow crops that are used to feed chickens and other an
