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://e360.yale.edu/features/marcel-gomes-interview
If you don’t have a car and rarely eat red meat, you are doing GREAT 🙌🙌 🙌
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.
Meat is a key food group on which majority of the world relies on live off.
Flying on the other hand is 100% discretionary but it seems people who whine about eating meat have zero problem going on vacations.
When hypocrisy is called out, they will have a melt down.
Lol this person is obsessed with bringing up this point.
“Shit, the meat industry is all types of fucked up. Maybe we should cut down.”
“Have you ever been on a plane though? If so, everything you just said cancels out. All your points are moot. All your effort is for nothing. I am very intelligent.”
Yes king
Can we just not do both? Thanks.
Also, alternatives to flying include cars ($$$ + muuuch slower + only slightly less bad) and public transit (requires collective buy-in and can’t happen overnight).
Most people can just drop meat on a whim, but I can’t just magic a US High-Speed Rail network into existence. I’ll continue to support the CA HSR with my vote and my tax dollars, and continue to take my rare vacations to locations within driving distance, but these aren’t really equivalent changes.
There is a much more robust set of existing alternatives to meat than there is to flying, at least in the US.