I genuinely think that most people in the UK would rather destroy the planet than give up eating some meat.
The UK must make big changes to its diets, farming and land use to hit net zero – official climate advisers
Submitted 4 days ago by rah@feddit.uk to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
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Naich@lemmings.world 4 days ago
DakRalter@thelemmy.club 3 days ago
You literally said the problem was with insulin producing spikes from carbs, and therefore you can’t eat a plant based diet. I just showed you evidence that you can indeed eat a plant based diet, carbs or not, and maintain healthy blood sugar levels. And can even reverse diabetes.
It was obvious from the beginning you were being totally disingenuous. I gave you the benefit of the doubt, but the fact that you’ll block over such an inoffensive message confirms my initial suspicion about you. You just don’t want to eat a plant based diet and will find any reason not to.
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discreetelite@feddit.uk 4 days ago
Love beef so much but I could easily cut it down by 30%
Emperor@feddit.uk 4 days ago
I have largely given up on red meat and cow’s milk, I do sometimes have a bit of lamb. It’s definitely doable.
davesmith@feddit.uk 4 days ago
With the best will in the world, the plain and simple reality is that there are too many people. We are not anywhere near food or energy secure.
Emperor@feddit.uk 4 days ago
So you are saying… Thanos was right?
ladel@feddit.uk 4 days ago
This mostly seems pretty achievable in my eyes. Meat consumption is apparently trending down anyway, even without government intervention. The difficult part may be turning farmland into woodland, because how do you get farmers to convert their source of income into land for trees?
Flamekebab@piefed.social 4 days ago
This is something that irks me about how we have things setup at the moment. Farming produces food. Put money in, get food out. The notion that it also needs to make money is putting the cart before the horse. Yay capitalism.
HumanPenguin@feddit.uk 4 days ago
to convert their source of income into land for trees?
The correct trees are income. Less than other sources. But I spose that is where gov needs to step in. But well managed wood cultivation is both CO2 absorbing and would reduce the huge transport harm imported wood causes.
Also, wood is getting insanely costly in the UK due to import costs. It may help other industries.
FarceOfWill@infosec.pub 4 days ago
Subsidise orchards like we do open farm land?
(I am not good enough at this law to know if orchards get the farming subsidies, happy to be informed by Lemmy people)
rah@feddit.uk 4 days ago
Orchards are very different from woodland. Trees need to be evenly planted and have much more space than woods. Probably better than nothing but it’s not the kind of CO2-sink woodland the CCC is talking about.
HumanPenguin@feddit.uk 4 days ago
Nor am I. But Do know pre Brexit the EU was funding actual wood land. That is a huge part of the issues farmers have now.
The huge farm subsidies the EU provided were still not replaced or agreed to long after Brexit. I’m not sure if they ever were at all. But farmers were forced to change growing habits with no idea what the gov was going to support.
It was a huge part of way £350m a week was an outright lie. Not only were we not actually sending that much due to discounts. We got a huge chunk back via farm subs.