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

Ileftreddit@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• threeduck@aussie.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If everyone decided to stop eating meat today, 10-15% of the entire planets GHG gasses drop, an area the size of all of the Americas can be rewilded (animal ag uses 50-100x the land per kilo of food over plant based), we stop wasting 70% of our antibiotics on animals, the plastic left in the ocean drops by half.

  Most things in life you have little control over: you can’t easily stop driving to work, you can’t easily remove all your plastic usage, you can’t easily cut back on your electricity usage.

  But you CAN easily cut out animal ag. Like, today. You can just look up plant based recipes for dinner instead of the meat ones. This is entirely consumer choice driven, entirely.

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  • hans@feddit.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    this assumes the industry stops.

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    • threeduck@aussie.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Why would the industry continue if no one was eating the meat? What a peculiar argument…

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• Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  and these companies often secretly fund other groups or companies telling “you” the customers to reduce your carbon footprint, so they dont have to. and you know those recent climate protestors defacing property, funded by these groups.

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  • Twelve20two@slrpnk.net ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Just Stop Oil is funded by petrochemical companies?

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    • Ileftreddit@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Most likely

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• Alsjemenou@lemy.nl ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Okay. But as an individual we still have a choice. And knowing what clearly is worse, while having minimal impact on your life if not doing it. It doesn’t exactly feel like a smart decision, to have red meat/animal products in general. Can i at least call you dumb?

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  • Ileftreddit@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I mean it’s really funny you asked permission to call me dumb, lol. “Carbon footprint” was a term invented by BP. The red meat industry is a methane polluter, but while we can estimate how much methane a cow produces, the oils and gas industry have no idea how much they lose. like they don’t even keep track of how much methane gets just wastefully vented into the atmosphere. youtu.be/K2oL4SFwkkw

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    • Alsjemenou@lemy.nl ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      :p would be rude to call someone dumb otherwise.

      Look, you’re completely right about big poluters. Obviously.

      But them polluting doesn’t rid you from your responsibilities. Car manufacturers make cars go 150 but you still need to keep to the speed limit. And because everybody does that, at least to a fair degree, we can all drive safely.

      You can just toss your thrash on the side of the road.

      You can just exist on a red meat only diet.

      Its all the same. Have some common decency. Don’t consume polluting products when you know that it’s the worst option and there is much better available.

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