Some myth busting…
….from Chris Kresser, a popular Paleo blogger. Chris takes on the recent spate of articles and studies purporting to show (once again) how bad cows are for the environment. It’s a subject we’ve gone over so many times, I’m frankly tired of defending us. In brief, if you look at the “evidence”, it’s been “cooked”. I remember reading a big 50 years ago, required reading in J-school when they used to teach critical thinking. As I recall, the title was: “How to Lie with Statistics”. There’s also: “Figures Lie and Liars Figure”.
But if you want to wade through the arguments again, Chris has just started a series on his blog defending “red meat”. He begins by exploring the claims that cattle are responsible for most of the greenhouse gases….and use way more than their fair share of the earth’s water.