No amount of air pollution is good for the brain, but wildfires and the emissions resulting from agriculture and farming in particular may pose especially toxic threats to cognitive health, according to new research from the University of Michigan.
Food is an insanely big global commodity, “Big Meat” has convinced tons of folks into eating more than once a day, it’s insane. For reference, 3/4 of all crops grown in the US are given to live stock. Only thing comparable to meat is the military. But military with the cars, powerplants, and massive factories are tied up in the worldwide wildfires. They’re directly related, from an individual stand point stopping meat consumption is the biggest move a single person can make. One 1/4lb beef patty is equal to the water needed to shower for a month. All that said, farms make sense to highlight as renewable straws and bags don’t really help. Summing up everything from the corporate asshats as wild fires while also isolating the biggest factor we each have control over is a smart move from my viewpoint.
Edit: I’d bet the dementia aspect is partially controlled by day to day life now having vivid demonstrations of the damage the earth has taken and the very real aspect we have to question if the future is inhabitable.
Of the Ag industry, livestock is the most resource dependant by a large margin and a major driver of antibiotic resistant microbes, plus invokes toxic damage to the surrounding area when done on a large scale.
Edit 2: Those are just bar graphs though, I want to see what was accounted for to get those values. Were the thousands of abandoned Ag wells which are now pumping out methane? Like what aspects did they even measure?
Food is an insanely big global commodity, “Big Meat” has convinced tons of folks into eating more than once a day, it’s insane. For reference, 3/4 of all crops grown in the US are given to live stock. Only thing comparable to meat is the military. But military with the cars, powerplants, and massive factories are tied up in the worldwide wildfires. They’re directly related, from an individual stand point stopping meat consumption is the biggest move a single person can make. One 1/4lb beef patty is equal to the water needed to shower for a month. All that said, farms make sense to highlight as renewable straws and bags don’t really help. Summing up everything from the corporate asshats as wild fires while also isolating the biggest factor we each have control over is a smart move from my viewpoint.
Edit: I’d bet the dementia aspect is partially controlled by day to day life now having vivid demonstrations of the damage the earth has taken and the very real aspect we have to question if the future is inhabitable. Of the Ag industry, livestock is the most resource dependant by a large margin and a major driver of antibiotic resistant microbes, plus invokes toxic damage to the surrounding area when done on a large scale.
Edit 2: Those are just bar graphs though, I want to see what was accounted for to get those values. Were the thousands of abandoned Ag wells which are now pumping out methane? Like what aspects did they even measure?