[News] Netherlands Will Seize 3000 FARMS to comply with EU pollution rules (utter cage)

[kathisterima]

This is literally showing Beef is superior in all ways. You're literally showing me here that we have to consume 4.8x 100g of apple (which would cause more carbon footprint to produce) than 100g of beef WHILE beef is more nutrient dense and calorie efficient? Dawg, not really sure how this is supposed to help your point here.
Even though this is favoring beef, I have to tell you, Calories don't matter much since protein has an additional Thermic Effect of Food and most foods are different. calorie is not a great way to measure food quality.

"On average it takes 15,400 litres of water to make 1kg of beef"
"822 litres of water is used to make one kg apples"

"Apples have a relatively low carbon footprint of 0.24 kg (0.53 lbs) of CO2e per pound of produce compared to other fruits."
"With 99.48 kilograms of carbon dioxide equivalents per kilogram, beef production remains the biggest source of greenhouse gases."

I was of the impression that we mutually understand that the ammonia "emissions" come from fertilizers and not cows directly and urea isnt the real cause for groundwater pollution. 
Cow urine has some enzymes that naturally treat the extremely tiny amount of urea present in it.
Fertilizers are a problem, I'm not advocating for the use of fertilizers.

the point was they're a result of fertilizers and soil degradation, not cows grazing on grass or pissing on the soil.

stop being in denial

I've posted links and data that prove the following

• groundwater contamination is linked to fertilizer used for agriculture AND cow urine
  
• the agriculture industry is the main cause of produced ammonia emissions
  
• cow urine still releases ammonia emissions
  
• ammonia emissions damage soil