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Red meat has a huge carbon footprint because cattle requires a large amount of land and water.

https://sph.tulane.edu/climate-and-food-environmental-impact-beef-consumption

Demand for steaks and burgers is the primary driver of Deforestation:

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2022-beef-industry-fueling-amazon-rainforest-destruction-deforestation/

https://e360.yale.edu/features/marcel-gomes-interview

https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2023-06-02/almost-a-billion-trees-felled-to-feed-appetite-for-brazilian-beef

If you don't have a car and rarely eat red meat, you are doing GREAT πŸ™ŒπŸ™Œ πŸ™Œ

Sure, you can drink tap water instead of plastic water. You can switch to Tea. You can travel by train. You can use Linux instead of Windows AI's crap. Those are great ideas. But, don't drive yourself crazy. If you are only an ordinary citizen, remember that perfect is the enemy of good.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 minutes ago

Nuts are nuts!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 37 minutes ago (1 children)

We could really use a movement to get more people to try adding beans, peas, and tofu to their grocery list. I wasn't able to stick to not eating meat, but sticking to eating less meat by adding alternatives to my grocery list turned out to be quite easy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 minutes ago

I managed to get off of meat by trying out good meat replacements before quitting. But I still consume a lot of cheese especially mozzarella.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I've got a special trick where I can make pretty much the entire internet rage at me. Check it out:

I'm vegetarian.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 56 minutes ago

Haha nice!

This chart theoretically demonstrates the validity of vegetarianism if that beef herd line is truly the outlier it appears to be.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago

Beef is overrated. Pork, poultry, and wild caught shrimp are where it's at.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago

I guess it's a good thing that the lone star tick is moving north

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

The single best thing you can do for the climate is not existing. The next best thing is not having kids. The lifetime of consumption of a person is out of the equation without that person. Until we figure out how to live sustainably on this earth, overpopulation is a real problem.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (2 children)

You first, buddy.

If not, this is just a slippery slope argument to "those other people shouldn't exist/have babies". That's just the door to eco-fascism.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 46 minutes ago (1 children)

Would you rather have ecofascism or the extinction of all macroscopic organisms?

That being said limiting birth rates is a responsible thing to do, and we can see clearly when wealth inequality forces people to have fewer resources they will just choose to not have children. Otherwise every country wouldn't be whining about birth rates being too low.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 19 minutes ago

What a bullshit dilemma.

And you are wrong that wealth inequality causes the drop in birth rates. The birth rate was higher in the Dickensian times of Britain compared to now. If anything, it is wealth equality, universal positive rights, and women's liberation that tend to make people have fewer kids.

A ecosocialist world is a sustainable one. An ecofascist world is just a death spiral.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 54 minutes ago

I dunno, can’t it still be a good thing to put this option into the zeitgeist, in an otherwise pro-natal by default society?

Even though I know that on an intellectual level having kids is a choice, it still feels like a big adulting checkbox. That feel may be biological, but it’s influenced by society too.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Are bilionairs white meat?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Probably more like pork, though I'd finish them on apples and acorns because a normal human diet makes them not taste vary good.

Also you need to castrate the males a month before you eat them or they'll taste off

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