Gary L. Francione
1 min readApr 22, 2019

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According to the United Nations, animal agriculture is responsible for 18% of greenhouse gas emissions. According to WorldWatch, the figure is much higher — 51%.

Transportation exhaust is responsible for 13% of greenhouse gasses.

And when you consider the other environmental effects — water use/pollution, soil erosion, etc., and the fact that methane is much more destructive than Co2 in a 20 year time frame, animal agriculture is even worse.

So XR can focus on carbon emissions because XR doesn’t want to promote veganism. But that is, simply put, irrational.

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Gary L. Francione
Gary L. Francione

Written by Gary L. Francione

Gary L. Francione is Board of Governors Distinguished Professor of Law at Rutgers University and Visiting Professor of Philosophy at the University of Lincoln.

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