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[–] Discoslugs@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

We can all adopt a plant based diet which will absolutely slow change as well as cost less than a diet that involves meat.

Found the vegan.

Some people need to eat meat: Like my room mate who has mass cell activation.

Also many indigenous peoples have dishes that involve meat. They are not apart of this problem.

Frankly there are a lot of reason to eat meat. If I go out and shoot my own deer and butcher it and cook it this does not effect the climate the same way as buying beef of the shelf.

And while beef is particularly resource and land intensive so are many vegetables you see at grocery stores.

Do you eat avocados? Because most avocados grown in mexico are done under control by violent cartels.

Many people probably should eat less meat. But acting like EVRYONE can do this is wrong on many fronts.

If you want to be a vegetarian please do. But lets stop acting like its a real solution to climate change or even a option for many people. It isnt.

[–] CoderKat@lemm.ee -3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I gotta be honest, this comes across more like excuses to not make changes or even admit your part. I'm not a vegetarian myself, but I'm under no delusions that my meal preferences aren't bad for the environment and have ethical concerns. I eat meat anyway because honestly, I just like the taste and struggle to give that up. But I fully support those who can give it up and want to see lab grown meat be a viable replacement.

Like your roommate, nobody is saying literally everyone has to stop eating meat full stop. If you have a medical need, obviously keep eating meat. Similarly, reducing how much meat you eat is still an improvement. You don't have to go 100% vegetarian.

Similarly, if indigenous folks can sustainably eat meat, cool. But most people simply aren't doing that. And are you aware of why meat is so bad for the environment? I mean this 100% seriously: cow farts. Raising livestock ethically only addresses the moral problems with animal husbandry. This thread is about environmental problems. Land intensiveness doesn't actually matter that much. The amount of land used isn't the problem.

The avocados thing isn't related to environment. Again, I gotta be honest here, this feels like an attempt at a "gotcha". I get it. I struggled with the idea that my own consumption (which again, I still do) is bad for the environment. Plus I could never kill an animal myself. I can only eat meat because I emotionally separate myself from it. It's a hard reality to face and I'm still not really comfortable with it. But we can't act like "oh, you eat a bad thing, so I'm okay to do different bad things" is a good reasoning.

Don't take things literally when someone says "we should all do X". That's not a personal attack on you if you don't. That's just how we talk. We say "everyone should watch the new Barbie movie because it's really great" but I don't actually mean literally every single human needs to watch it.

[–] Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 year ago

cow farts

Changing what we feed cows from like corn by-products to barley and hops by-products reduces this problem greatly. But of course the scale isn't big enough.