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Misleading headline right? if one person stopped eating meat it would clearly not be like taking 8 million cars off the road, if everyone on earth stopped eating meat then 8 million cars would be a drop in the ocean. So… the headline means what even you want it to mean.

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Vegoon@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
One line under the headline:

“Having big U.K. meat-eaters cut some of it out of their diet would be like taking 8 million cars off the road,”

Here is the serious headline:

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aba7357

Global food system emissions could preclude achieving the 1.5° and 2°C climate change targets

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- Mane25@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  This is the second time in two days where I’ve complained about a headline and someone has taken that to mean I don’t understand the content.
  
  I was complaining about the headline.
  
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Tweak@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Exactly. Getting billions of people to stop eating meat is surely going to be harder than getting 8 million cars off the road.

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- Mane25@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  
  Exactly
  
  That’s really not my point. Climate change is a serious matter and needs to be treated
  
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- Rokk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Article is just focused on the UK. So is more like getting 40million people to reduce their meat consumption (not stop) vs getting 8million UK cars off the road.
  
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- YungOnions@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  They’re not saying people should stop eating meat entirely, they’re saying people should eat less i.e. swapping a burger with a bean casarole once a week or something. This is not a binary all-or-nothing situation. Every little helps, as they say.
  
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SJ0@lemmy.fbxl.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I dunno… I do like eating a lot of meat…

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