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

IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  The resources required are themselves cheap.

  Well water is nearly free, food can be cheap for a farmer it’s corn and grass which they can grow, or a corn / malassas mix which is pretty cheap to buy. If they birth the cow, there’s special costs and then there’s vet/medicine bills. A farmer’s time is the ultimate cheap thing because they more or less ignore it in pricing. The butcher’s price/time isn’t inconsequential.

  The environmental issues don’t cost them anything unless we tax it.

  Some forms of beef are pretty cheap but not all.

  Hamburger is cheap. filet is $15-$25/lb. 4 decent 1.5 inch-thick steaks come to about $100 wholesale.

  The meat from the cow is about $3000 after processing.

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• zeca@lemmy.eco.br ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Its cheap if you forget that part of the price is the habitability of the planet.

  And beef isnt so cheap around here, i guess it depends on where you live.

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• zeca@lemmy.eco.br ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Polluting is a bit different from taking resources. The industry should be more regulated, which would maybe convert the damage made to the environment into an increased price of beef.

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• Rekorse@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  American meat is full of poison and is pretty disgusting.

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  • IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    which is crazy, because EU meat is basically the same price but much better quality.

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    • DarthFrodo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      It’s still from factory farms with very cruel living conditions, which is why it can be so cheap.

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• trum_pam_pam@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Steroids.

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