id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-9116 Ethics of eating meat - Wikipedia .html text/html 9275 1348 65 Ethical vegetarian concerns have become more widespread in developed countries, particularly because of the spread of factory farming, more open and graphic documentation of what human meat-eating entails for the animal,[11] and environmental consciousness. Some authors argue that by far the best thing we can do to slow climate change is a global shift towards a vegetarian or vegan diet.[33] A 2017 study published in the journal Carbon Balance and Management found animal agriculture's global methane emissions are 11% higher than previously estimated.[34] In November 2017, 15,364 world scientists signed a warning to humanity calling for, among other things, "promoting dietary shifts towards mostly plant-based foods."[35] A 2019 report in The Lancet recommended that global meat consumption be reduced by 50 percent to mitigate climate change.[36] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-9116.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-9116.txt