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Canada wants to make cows burp less to fight climate change
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Going vegan is super easy.
While it is voluntary we must not rely on it to solve our problems. What aboutism does not help.
This isn't whataboutism. Whayaboutism is talking about some other problem.. Going vegan is a solution to the problem at hand. The easiest solution
did you try that?
Yes... For 8 years successfully. My balls didn't fall, my health is great, and so is my social life. Nothing changed.
but it didn't stop cows from burping.
Well 1 billion of vegetarians certainly did help create less cows.
I believe there are more cows now than ever before
Having everyone not be vegan is a "problem" So is Emission from high meat usage/husbandry of cows, sheep and goats. I don't know a better word than whataboutism to describe that.
It will solve a large number of problems with minimal effort put on individuals.
The key here is that it doesn't rely on industry or government to make a difference, and it puts the power back in our hands. ๐ช
for some people this might be true.
So is turning cows into ground beef, which many agree is far more delicious.
It really is not! Vegan diets require an awareness of nutrition that isn't trivial. It's not hard to do, but it takes a level of planning! It is irresponsible to suggest otherwise.
Every diet requires planning, which is why non-vegans have nutritional deficiencies. It's naive to suggest otherwise.
Agreed, though the odd egg or chunk of meat helps a lot with nutrition. Supplementing with nutritional yeast, flaxseeds, chiaseeds, green leafy vegetables... you have to be more aware about iron, B vitamins, omega fatty acids than you would be with a diet that includes eggs, dairy, and meat.
I advocate people reduce meat, but without a good fundamental knowledge, it's a little risky to go full vegan.
I don't think it's super easy on an individual basis. I think for regular people it'll be a really difficult transition. However, given the solutions we're coming up with, and with the effects we're having on the environment ... it's definitely easier relatively speaking.
I think that even cutting meat out a few days a week or going vegetarian than full-blown vegan would have a great effect too. Probably both on health and the environment.
Change is often difficult, but going vegan isn't a change that I'd say is too hard, or even a little hard, for most people.
20 years ago, it was fairly easy to transition. And that was with a complete lack of resources, or the multitude of dairy-free, meat-free, and vegan products we now see available in pretty much any store and restaurant.
There are also so many organizations these days that can help with the transition, lay out meal plans, etc. It honestly couldn't be easier, especially when you consider that most people would also be saving money by cutting out animal products from their diet.
Yes, go vegan a few days a week if that helps (most find a slow transition to be more difficult). See how easy it is. Then go full vegan.
If we didn't have a global climate crisis to deal with, then it might not be as pressing of an issue. But it really is something we all ought to be doing at a bare minimum. As soon as possible.
Not enough time in the day, telling everyone you're vegan is a full time job.
Trying to justify the livestock industry is a lifelong endeavor. ๐