Comment

Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat

renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Here’s the perspective that helped me the most with this:

You don’t have to quit meat (sorry for the pun) cold turkey.

Even cutting your meat consumption by half can have a significant impact. Start by ordering a vegetarian option instead of meat every once in a while. Experiment and find veggie alternatives you actually like, there are tons of options now. I heard someone refer to this as “microdosing veganism”, and it can really help make the change less exhausting.

Over time, you might even notice your tastes start to shift and vegan options become actually enjoyable instead of a “sacrifice”.

source

Sort:hotnew top

Carighan@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
That’s meee! ✋

I still eat meat, but quite little, and quite rarely. There’s the odd salami at home, or every few months some ham for carbonara when I get guests over, or something like that. But it’s such a small percentage of what I consume now, I feel like I’m effectively vegetarian, anyways.

And yeah for most things I use alternatives because it turns out they’re often easier to handle. The Barista This Isn’t Milk is nice because it foams more reliably than actual milk and lasts much longer which is important as a single household.

source
- renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Oh yeah, our house basically gave up on real milk once the alternatives got good. The shelf life alone was a huge driver.
  
  source
- JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  
  lasts much longer which is important as a single household
  
  This is an often-overlooked argument for veganism. If you plan carefully, you literally don’t need a fridge.
  
  source
Angry_Autist@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
If you only understood the damage you were doing.

Rather, I feel you fully understand the damage you are doing and are probably doing it deliberately

source
- renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  I suspect l’ll regret engaging with this, but… what?
  
  source
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
what has helped me is just pivoting heavily to chicken, i used to basically just eat beef and pork, so simply eating a different kind of meat helped ease into eating non-meat meals as well.

meat alternatives are of course great, but i also think soybeans (or similar) are very underrated, just raw green soybeans are astoundingly meat-like for being a straight up unprocessed vegetable. Great in salads.

source
commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

cutting your meat consumption by half can have a significant impact.

i doubt it. many people have done that, and meat production grows year-over-year every year.

source