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Wiki Education assignment: Combing the Archive

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 28 August 2023 and 8 December 2023. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Seattleski (article contribs).

— Assignment last updated by Seattleski (talk) 17:09, 26 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Removing the "Pigs" subsection and linking the article in "See also"

Chidgk1, its been a while, and its nice to see that you are still working on improving the article. I previously removed the pigs subsection because it seemed to merely redundantly repeat the information that was already in the rest of the article. The Pigs subsection does not seem to help the overall article. The rest of the current article's information is pretty well categorized already, i think, and the addition of the Pigs subsection ruins the flow of the categorization by creating overlap between subsections. Do you think we should remove it, and add it to the "See also" instead? Why or why not? Jarfuls of Tweed (talk) 08:25, 15 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Although you are right that pigs are mentioned 3 times before that section those mentions do not explain why pigs are a problem. That is why I think the excerpt should stay in. However I would be interested in hearing a 3rd opinion (especially from China as there are so many pigs there). Chidgk1 (talk) 19:02, 15 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think people will open this article to look at pigs specifically, and thus, I think that the pigs subheading will not get read by people visiting the article. I think people will want to know the overall impact on a specific category (such as GHG emissions or water usage) when they open this article rather than a specific animal. And if they did want to know about that animal, they would go to that page. If you think there is relevant information about pigs that need to be in this article, I think it should be redistributed into the other subsections of this article rather than clumped at the end. Jarfuls of Tweed (talk) 01:35, 16 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps @Seattleski can give a 3rd opinion and if necessary edit this Chidgk1 (talk) 13:03, 30 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Should there be a section or mention of environmental racism associated with animal agriculture?

I've been doing research about the disproportionate environmental effects of the industry on communities of color and low-income communities and was wondering if this would be the right place to include these details. These details could potentially go into the environmental impact section or there could be another section altogether explaining the ways in which communities are affected. Seattleski (talk) 17:18, 16 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Seattleski I feel like where you placed your information is good. If you want to give it its own subheading, that would also be good, especially if you have more research on that area which you want to add. Jarfuls of Tweed (talk) 19:39, 16 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, I think it is better if you distribute it into the already present subheadings rather than give it its own subheading even if you add more information on the topic. Jarfuls of Tweed (talk) 20:36, 16 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Need clarification on following wordings

"For the livestock industry, inspections focused primarily on CAFOs. Of the 32 other industries, (including crop production) had a better 5-year environmental record than the livestock industry, 2 had a similar record, and 25 had a worse record in this respect." I'm confused, can naybody help rephrase them? thanks.--ThomasYehYeh (talk) 12:09, 2 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I boldly deleted it and some other US specific stuff around it as it was all based on a year 2000 cite Chidgk1 (talk) 17:41, 2 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

the mentioning of [A 2023 study published in Nature Food found that a vegan diet reduced...]

That happens at least 5 times in different sections of this article, could it be an advertisement or advocation? ThomasYehYeh (talk) 00:05, 5 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with you and have removed the 5 times that the magazine was mentioned (but left the rest of the statements intact). EMsmile (talk) 15:35, 31 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Merger completed

I've carried out the merger of "environmental impact of cattle" into here. See previous discussion here. I invite everyone to take another look and help reduce any duplication that the merger might have introduced. Some of the content that is currently under "cattle" could probably also be moved up to other parts of the article. EMsmile (talk) 08:30, 17 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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