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Think about the impact it would have on climate change if humans were allergic to meat.
There seems to be a wildly unusual anti-meat sentiment on Lemmy. It's disproportionate from my experience in person.
I wonder if it means anything.
Lemmy's userbase is currently skewed very left wing, many people on the left are vegan or vegetarian or at least care about climate change enough to see reduction in meat consumption as a necessity to fixing it.
So it shouldn't be too much of a surprise that you see more anti-meat discourse.
Disclaimer: I eat meat
I don't think many on the left are vegan or vegetarian, I think that those two groups tend to live in the left spectrum. They're far outweighed by those that do eat meat.
Hehe, meat-eaters fat
True, but the proportion of non-meat eaters is certainly much higher with the sort of people that make up the majority of this community than with the whole population