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

• 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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      • partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        some people are eating fewer beef meals

        And for those people that eat fewer beef meals that does help. That is unambiguous. We’re talking about choices individuals can make for themselves to affect positive change. Those that eat fewer beef meals remove themselves as demand drivers of beef for those beef skipped meals. Were those individuals that would have eaten beef chose to eat beef for those future meals, then demand would be even higher with even higher climate impacts.

        Do you disagree?

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