Grassfed beef also takes up significantly more land

I hope people really pay attention to this video and really do something about it.

This video need to be shared as much as possible!

2:00 Do not say that about my country. But it's the truth....

or we could eat veggie burgers instead of hamburgers and then imagine how much less damage we could cause with veggie burgers

This is gonna sound super awful, but a large part of me just doesn't really fucking care.

Just put green house backpacks on every cow.

"Cows excrete 3 times as much as humans" , ITS ALMOST AS IF THEY ARE 5 TIMES THE SIZE.

What a great and clear movie about the meat industrie. I'm doing my graduation project about the negative influence the meat industry has on our invironment. I am guilty for eating meat, but after all my research about it, I will definitely start eating half of what I used to eat.

I eat one like every 2 1/2 months

What we really need to focus on is creating more pastures for our cows. Grass-fed beef is much better overall.

my university has something called "meatless mondays" in which the cafeteria is wiped clean of meat for a day, which is cool i guess, but i really wish there were more voluntary vegetarians/vegans at my school. we're very focused on social and environmental justice, yet i don't see a lot of awareness about the meat industry..."meatless mondays" are as practical as the proverb "give a man a fish...." it's a temporary solution. informing students of reasons why the eating meat so often (or at all), at least in supplement to meatless mondays, would be more effective and potentially reduce meat consumption among the student population in the long run.

Beef, what a relief.

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it's takes 30 gallons of water to produce one pound of beef.... if it is grass-fed. which is all i buy. Any argument against industrial modern beef is not an argument against the traditional natural practice of raising beef. Just like I wouldn't argue against vegetarianism based on unsustainable monocropping and agricultural practices that dominate 99% of plant agriculture worldwide. You know what requires 500 gallons of water per pound? bread.

everyone needs to share this video

eating less meat is a good place to start but a terrible place stop... the issue is most people have slightly decreased their consumtiom of animals and now have a false sense of justification so they don't feel bad about eating animals for the rest of the week. from an environmental stand point switching to chicken or turkey is a better option than eating less beef. but the best option is just to go vegan.

Thanks for making this excellent video. We used it in our classroom to teach out students about the environmental impact of animal agriculture!

University of Hawaii research found risk of type-2 diabetes grew by 43% in men and 30% in women who ate lots of meat. Those who ate processed meat stood a 57% higher risk in men and 45% in women. A separate study at the same university showed individuals eating lots of processed meats were 67% more likely to develop pancreatic cancer.

What a great video! Well done

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"3 burgers per week" Here in Portugal that is like saying you eat 100 apples per day. That's probably not true.

when asked to care about anything but themselves, most people say "no". this is how the world got to be so effed up.

I could never stop eating meat. Plus I'm a livestock producer myself.

Thank you for raising awareness about the meat is murder industry!

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What you don't realize is that while corn is subsidized it really isn't that much. 82% percent of the FARM bill budget is actually for food regulation and when you consider the amount of farmers there are in the US each farmer only gets around $100 dollars in subsidies

This is excellent work!

Which one is worse: meat or plastic industry??

Just go vegan guys, it's the least we could do for the animals, the environment, and our health.

Here is what I got from this video: Don't eat 3 hamburgers a week, eat 2.

The link for sources is down, are they still available somewhere?

Even with one burger per week, it still adds up a lot.

Crazy Hamburger

Converting from the CAFO production system and global distribution system to a 100% grass fed system within regional distribution systems would free up enough cropland that, if converted to biomass plantations, would offset 3-4X more greenhouse gas emissions than all the cattle produce in the US alone, and that excludes the additional emissions from the distribution system. In other words, by converting to pasture-finished beef we can produce all the beef we currently consume while offsetting all the emissions and free up millions of acres that can be used to offset other greenhouse gas emissions. Industrial agriculture is the problem, not meat.

Great video thanks for sharing! Small editing error at 4:02 Nitrous oxide is N2O not NO2.

i like how this video presents the facts without vegan propaganda. there are actually some grains and nuts that are heavier on the environment than consumption of poultry, eggs and dairy. but it would make a big difference if everyone saved red meat for special occasions.. once a week, or just once a month.

Excellent video, just it need more biography sources.

I haven't eaten beef or poultry in over 5 years. I only eat fish now. I might even quit eating fish at some point.

But what about the treatment to the animals while they're in the hellhouse?

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Sources?

I'm in the University of Helsinki studying Environmental Economics. I recommend you begin studying subjects tangent to this. you get a good grasp of what's going on 'behind the scenes' with regard to these questions, which are by far the most important questions humankind has faced. you get to see the actual obstacles and problems and solutions and players and everything.

I'm giving up beef thanks :) you've really changed my views with this video

Exactly- plants. It can be done and it is waaay healthier if you do it right.

the graphics in this video is awesome!

Its baffling how almost every good video I manage to find on this topic goes downhill at their conclusion by appeasing meat consumers, compromising because "we don't have to give up meat, just cut down a little bit" since the idea of promoting actual change and effort is apparently unreasonable for people who've just been told we're destroying the planet through our consumption of animal products. Earth will die right under our feet through our choice to accept inaction.

SO, put a $1.51 tax on burgers, and ... problem solved!

They're going in the right direction, but this video has many flaws. To name a few, it states that pigs & chicken's don't produce methane, which is incorrect, & they push the misguided & common myth (which is beautifully debunked in a movie you may have heard of, called Cowspiracy) that "grass fed" cows produce less methane than "grain fed" cows; of course the reality is exactly the opposite, by many times over. They also mislead viewers by ignoring the facts that all other animal agriculture also unsustainably uses huge amounts of water & feed,contributes to massive air/water pollution, & benefits huge from corporate welfare. There are many great short videos that explain the realities of animal agriculture, but this sadly isn't one of them.

now i just want to educate myself more in these matters, that's the best thing young people like us (i'm assuming you're young too) can do. I don't think my conscience could handle being in a profession that had no way to affect the direction our environment is headed. "in the end we will conserve only what we love, love only what we understand, understand only what we are taught."

Thanks for the interesting movie, good job.

I do appreciate they in kudos their resources at the end and where to find out more information on the subject. I feel some vegetarian and vegan videos forget to back up their assumptions with actual facts. This is a video I could send my friends without being worried about logical fallacies

Perfect example of use of Logos trough vivid imagery in order convey the audience into believing what is being said.

While the UN Food and Agriculture Organization's claim that cattle contribute more to greenhouse gas emissions than transport has come under attack, there is little question that cattle contributions are still significant.

Very well done video

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Great Video! In the past 3 months I've went from eating meat 7 days a week to once every 6 weeks. Feels good to add my grain of sand to a good cause plus the food is more enjoyable! Good self control/will power exercise too!

I only disagreed with you about the "too much grains" because we eat too many refined grains and not enough WHOLE grains, whole rice, whole oats, whole wheat (I can't, Celiac), whole quinoa!

how did I get in this part of youtube again? I just wanna be happy

Very well-made video! Definitely sharing!

This is a really great video, thanks so much for making it! My partner & I are eating meat free several times a week now, and he's been amazed by how delicious the food has been - every little bit makes a difference :)

thanks for the important info : D

Awesome!

You shows have said to not Fckn eat meat AT ALL .

Even eating less meat etc. wouldn't stop the problems we get from the industries. It is better not to eat that stuff at all!

In another video they said if you must eat beef grass fed is worse because the cows usually occupy more land per cow and take longer to grow to butchering so emit more methane. Which is true?

OMG! I'm not eating hamburgers anymore.

8 years later we see the consequences of animal agriculture first hand 🦠 Covid 19

man this things demotivate me :( , I love hamburgers

Actually it would, farmers and ranchers use what is called a stocking rate, which is the amount of acres of grass it takes to raise a cow and her calf. In eastern Kansas the average stocking rate is around 10 acres per cow/calf pair. In drier climates it can be as high as 100 acres per cow/calf. So if we went to raising all cattle strictly on grass you can only imagine how much more land area we would have to utilize to raise all of the feeder cattle that we produce.

This is great spread it as much as you can!

This a really good video! I love it.

New idea. Actually blame the cows.

watched this at my school and the most funniest thing in this video is the spinning hamburger, idk why i laugh so hard at that

I'm eating Wendy's right now.. this chicken SANGWICH is boooooooomb..

ANYONE EAT THAT TRAVIS SCOTT BURGER??? YUMMY

there is vegan substitutes for literally everything

00:02 Livestock, especially cows, contribute significantly to greenhouse gas pollution. 01:10 The hidden costs of eating hamburgers 02:03 Livestock production consumes significant resources and contributes to pollution. 02:56 Farm bill caused cows to eat corn, leading to greenhouse gas emissions 03:51 Cow manure and fertilizer contribute to nitrous oxide pollution, dead zones in water bodies, and slaughterhouses create millions of pounds of contaminants 04:41 Beef production and transportation create significant pollution 05:32 Eating too much red meat can lead to health problems and has hidden costs. 06:23 Cutting out one burger per week can have a significant impact on greenhouse gas pollution. Summary, just incase you need it for educational purposes

That's what people said about Super Size Me that people would abandon fast food and it hasn't happened, it will take more than a documentary to get many people off this stuff.

Very interesting but to fully comprehend this one needs to look at the money system that drives our economy. Most of our money is created by private banks and loaned to us at interest. This control of the reward system gives those banks a lot of power. They give money to factor farms because they can make big returns even if they trash the planet doing it. People who engage in humane clean farming are less attractive and get less capital for research to improve clean methods

Watching this has made me hungry.. I'm off for a Big Mac :P

great ani mation, great story too❣️

You made some good arguements. But there is one thing u forgot to mention. YOLO. I'm eating all the hamburgers.

With all the cheese, sauce, pineapple, pepper, tomato etc. etc. I put on my hamburger I don't need a meaty one. Veggieburger for me.

Fantastic video! This is the type of information that should be readily available in schools and other educational facilities. Everyone should know the cost of the products they use!

Fyi a cow is a female that has given birth. Beef cattle consists of steers and heifers. Steers are castrated males, and heifers are females that have never given birth. So there actually are no "cows" in feedlots. Currently there are 89 million head of cattle including dairy cows. This number is the same that it was in the 1950's in the US. GLobally the numbers are the same that they were in the 1970's. So no there hasn't been a big increase in cattle population or consumption of beef.Beef consumption is actually down. Chicken and farmed fish consumption is up significantly and accounts for the increases in meat consumption. Additionally contrary to even more misinformation presented here most cattle are not eating grain in feed lots. Of that 89 million, at any given time only 14 million beef cattle are in feed lots where they go to as yearlings (at one year of age). Another 9 million are dairy cows mainly in dairy CAFO's. Where are the other 66 or so million other head of cattle: the bulls, cows, calves and replacement heifers? Eating grass, the majority (85%) of which isn't suitable for growing crops. Converting non-arable land used for grazing cattle and other ruminants watered by "green" water (rainfall) to crop land requires more "blue" or ground/surface water to be diverted and used, so the REAL environmental impact of water use is worse for crops than it is for cattle. Water foot prints are often pretty meaningless when assessing environmental impacts.Most people cite these water foot numbers, like the case here, without any understanding of how water foot print numbers are derived or what they actually represent. Grass fed and finished cattle have even less of an impact water wise on these natural ranges and pastures. Such cattle actually improve the soil infiltration rates by improving the soil health when properly managed. This means any rain that does fall is utilized more effectively with less run off . Healthy untilled soils with perennial grasses and roots also do two other things, they sequester carbon and bank methane. Methanotrophs in healthy soils capture atmospheric methane, so in reality, the entire impact of enteric methane belched by cattle is offset by carbon sequestration and methane oxidation. At worse, cattle when properly managed on grasslands are GHG neutral. As for deforestation in the Amazon just for cattle, this is the grossly oversimplified representation often made. There are many other factors involved including agriculture for CAFO pigs/chickens, agricultural for man, sugarcane for ethanol, mining, timber, political corruption and land speculation. Sugarcane is 10 times the yield of soy, none of Brazil cattle eats any of the soy (or corn). Cattle in Brazil eat grass. In Brazil only 2.5 mil head are in feedlots. 55% of sugar cane crops goes to making ethanol.

As you pointed out yourself the problem is in the cattle feed farms, petition the US govt to change livestock handling, remove the subsidies on corn and fertilizers.

This video was great until the end. We need to completely cut out meat from our diets. It's too late for us to simply cut out animal products once a week. With the human population increasing at tremendous rates, we all either become vegan, or destroy our planet.

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I read something about eating kangaroo burgers instead of beef burgers in a TIME magazine. Apparently they don't release that polluting gas either

Do you happen to have a soundtrack listing?

And killing them is just cruel:( working at Walmart I see how much gets tossed were killing them for no reason. So glad I went vegan, I hope to see more people do it.

Damn, I think I average like 6 burgers a week! Nice video, very informative and great motion graphics.

I just looked up all the Environmental Studies courses in my school and I'll add them during the next registration period. Thanks for the much needed insight. What's your name friend?

especially when it's mixed with all the stuff you shouldn't be ingesting like stuff from cleaning agents.

You can't scare people with numbers. Sure cows drink a lot of water, but they pee it back out its not like they keep it forever.

WE DO HAVE TO GIVE UP MEAT. A vegan world will save us all.

Course information. From newborn to pound of packaged meat in a supermarket, 'mass-produced' leaves less a mark than small-farm organic meat. mostly this boils down to the fact that small farms produce small batches of meat, which are generally trucked around. this results in a high footprint per pound compared to mass-produced meats which are also transported in bulk.

It uses the adventure capitalist them song

1:15 Hamburger is german!