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and yet, we STILL won't stop eating animals.
Just switching from beef to chicken and pig gets you 90% of the way to vegan, emissions-wise.
It's an easy substitution to make. Make beef a treat or a once in a while thing.
It's expensive anyway.
Honestly that’s kinda how I treat beef nowadays, and I’m a relatively well-off software engineer. Not to mention, there are real and meaningful health considerations to take into account.
yes...because me eating meat is the highest cause of greenhouse gasses. totally not the unmonitored industrial factories across the globe.
It's not the only source, or even a majority, but it is big enough to matter and it saves money for almost everybody to stop. (Sole real exception: arctic populations who have to import anything agricultural)
it's one of the best things you can do as an individual, among others.
Consequences are coming regardless. Most people are going to keep living their lives as best they can.
Unless industry is brought to heel, we could reduce our footprint to 0 and still be totally fucked.
The lifestock industry alone is responsible for 15% to 20% of the greenhouse emissions, so wiping it out would make huge impact on it's own. Even if you forbade just cattle it would reduce 10% of global emissions.
I stopped eating meat. I still eat cheese and eggs but i'm happy I finally gave it up. It's been a little over a month and I really don't miss it.