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

• Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Although if you regularly eat a kilo of red meat a day, you should probably talk to your doctor about those blood spots when you wipe your arse.

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• Allero@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  True, but still Why is it so much worse than other plant-based foods?

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  • Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It’s mostly an artefact from how we measure it.

    Chocolate demand is rising, which means cocoa demand is rising. It grows best in really warm places, where there’s plenty of readily available mountainous land that’s currently covered by old growth forest. They farm cocoa very unsustainably, by illegally logging the land, growing beans for 5 to 8 years, and moving on (following the illegal loggers)

    That land use change drives climate impact of chocolate. Milk drives the rest.

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    • Allero@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Makes sense, thought about this.

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