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

• partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  i don’t think that’s true, if meat production continues to grow.

  If people are eating fewer beef meals, where is the beef production growth coming from in your theoretical?

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  • commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    it’s not theoretical. plenty of people (claim to) have cut back on beef, but production continues to rise.

    ourworldindata.org/…/meat-production-tonnes?tab=c…

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    • Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Then people haven’t cut back. The production has to go somewhere, they aren’t making money shoveling it off a cliff.

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      • Zwiebel@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Probably historically poor parts of the population gaining the means to buy more beef, for example in China

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    • partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      it’s not theoretical. plenty of people (claim to) have cut back on beef, but production continues to rise.

      Then you skipped the entire first half of my statement where I said “If people are eating fewer beef meals,” So sure, if you ignore half of what I said then you can say I am wrong. At that point what are we even talking about?

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      • commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        some people are eating fewer beef meals

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