Exposure to traffic-related air pollution has long been linked to a variety of health issues such as cardiovascular diseases and lung cancer, as well as respiratory diseases such as bronchitis and respiratory tract infections.
According to Our World in Data, the 1.5 billion cattle which are raised specifically for meat production around the world emit at least 231 billion pounds of methane over the course of a year, and troublingly, methane has 80 times the warming power of CO2 during its first 20 years in the atmosphere.