YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat

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• Allero@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Woah, didn’t know about cheese (although makes sense), coffee and chocolate.

  Why do coffee and chocolate have such an impact?

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  • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    because this is per kilogram, not per serving. you don’t eat a kilogram of chocolate in a day

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    • Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • Sphks@jlai.lu ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Coffee and chocolate do not grow where you live. It needs to travel the oceans. (Unless you live in a country where it grows)

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    • Allero@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Ocean travel us very fuel efficient, and also bananas don’t seem to have the same effect despite also coming from afar.

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• JiminaMann@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  [deleted]

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  • usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This graph is normalized per kg. Graphs look similarly per kcal as well

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  • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    to some degree maybe, but even a doubling for most of these things still puts them way way way below the emissions of beef.

    but things like beans are trivial to grow on a small local scale, if you can get your food from local farmers that aren’t using 500 tractors and tons of artificial fertilizer then it’s hard to even theoretically do better.

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• ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I have a steak maybe once a year, usually as a sudden or persistent craving. But other than that it was amazingly easy to convert to poultry for all my regular recipes. Very easy step to make without much thought.

  Reducing dairy is my dietary wall.

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• thesystemisdown@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I like to go bottom up. If chocolate and coffee are off the menu, I’m not sure this life is worth continuing.

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• LilB0kChoy@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Just looked through our past few menus. We only eat beef once a week by nature it seems.

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• bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Thats crazy!! I do eat it, but not very often. However I do a lot to offset it, but still. Hard to get other foods that make you feel full and get you protein like a good steak though.

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• Tattorack@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You should see the carbon footprint of concrete…

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  • remon@ani.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah and it doesn’t even taste good.

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• match@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  what the fuck are they doing to make farmer shrimps worse than pork

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• Green_FieldS@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Still going to VOTE! Don’t know why that needed to be in there, next to car and red meat

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• kaitco@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m gonna drive my car…because that’s necessary, but I haven’t eaten meat (red, white, blue, whatever) for 20 years, so between that, not adding to the surface population, and not voting for complete jackasses, I think I’ve at least offset the driving.

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• commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  plenty of people have tried that, and the production of beef continues to grow.

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  • usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Beef production is falling in some countries. For instance in Germany

    In 2011, Germans ate 138 pounds of meat each year. Today, it’s 121 pounds — a 12.3 percent decline. And much of that decline took place in the last few years, a time period when grocery sales of plant-based food nearly doubled.

    vox.com/…/germany-less-meat-plant-based-vegan-veg…

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    • commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      ourworldindata.org/…/meat-production-tonnes?tab=c…

      that hasn’t stopped the meat industry from growing.

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• gon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Convenient for me, that is.

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• RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The real biggest thing you can do for the environment would be reducing the global human population.

  Humans do not produce anything for the environment, the mere existence of humans automatically causes harm to the environment. Humans take from the environment but give nothing useful back. If humans were deleted from the Earth, the environment would not be negatively effected. Even the most “environmentally friendly” human still damages their local environment by being alive.

  But you know, killing people is pretty illegal basically everywhere, and extremely unethical in many, many ways. Unethical Pro Tips I guess? Please nobody actually do this.

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• Hubi@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Why is there such a massive difference between beef from “beef herds” compared to “dairy herds”?

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  • Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You can’t get meat from a cow twice, you can get milk lots of times.

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    • naticus@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      What’s the carbon footprint of catoblepas?

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• LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  As long as we can take the rich with us, let the baby burn 🔥🔥🔥

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• brachiosaurus@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  why milk/cheese and beef dairy are two different charts?

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• backgroundcow@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  No shade on people trying to make sustainable choices, but if the solution to the climate crisis is us trusting everyone to “get with the program” and pick the right choice; while unsustainable alternatives sit right there beside them at lower prices, then we are truly doomed.

  What the companies behind these foods and products don’t want to talk about is that to get anywhere we have to target them. It shouldn’t be a controversial standpoint that: (i) all products need to cover their true full environmental and sustainability costs, with the money going back into investments into the environment counteracting the negative impacts; (ii) we need to regulate, regulate, and regulate how companies are allowed to interact with the environment and society, and these limits must apply world-wide. There needs to be careful follow-up on that these rules are followed: with consequences for individuals that take the decisions to break them AND “death sentences” (i.e. complete disbandment) for whole companies that repeatedly oversteps.

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• tdawg@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Does the graph include how palm farms are built on precious forest land that has since been burned down? and that the land primarily being burnt is some of the most important land for storing carbon and providing oxygen?

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• xeekei@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I like chicken more anyway.

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• myotheraccount@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Nuts are nuts!

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  • Jackhammer_Joe@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    So are strawberries!

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    • myotheraccount@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Can’t argue with that

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• rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Looks like the traditional Irish diet of potatoes, root veg, and onions is carbon-friendly af.

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• TwinTitans@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  No thanks.

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• jumping_redditor@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  how does hunted vs farmed meat compare?

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• visnae@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Mussles for life

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• pwalker@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  luckily u didn’t suggest to cut the cheese 😅 cheese is life, I can eat less beef but not my cheeeeeese 🙃

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• hodgepodgin@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That one guy eating rapeseed oil:

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• BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What about ostrich?

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• Jarix@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  So only eat beef from dairy herds? And you will half your footprint? Anyone know the rough specifics (Eli5 style) of why that is?

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