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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (7 children)

On the flip side, meat tastes 20x better than vegetables.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Meat tastes like nothing special if it's not salted, marinated or eaten with gravy.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (4 children)

“And yet, eating a vegan diet still produces greenhouse gasses! Curious!”

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (13 children)

How much greenhouse gas does does a private jet make? I'm tired of them putting it on the overburdened collective to do huge industry sweeping change, when we could swat down a few more private jets, regulate some industries better, and impose sanctions and other measures on countries that aren't cooperating and have major drastic impact with much less overall effort.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Private jets are bad, agreed... How about making the change to veganism and also campaigning about private jets at the same time? Picking a different item on a menu is all it takes for a people in a lot of places and it's t really the type of problem that humanity should be throwing everything at.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

As usual, the title is clickbait. It's not "eating meat" that produces 4 times more greenhouse gases, it's a high-meat diet. Big difference that is conveniently left out of the title to get more clicks.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (12 children)

Since it isn't mentioned in the article, here is the reference: paper (2014)

In the study it even shows how driving a 10 years car for 6000 miles is rougly two years of saved emission with a meat->vegan switch.

I don't know, changing dietary is obviously good for the health, but these results seems to make pretty useless changes, use the bike and save twice as much.

EDIT: There is a new paper (2023), it is in a reply.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

lower than I would expect

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Yeah 4 times 0.0000000000000000000000001% of what the largest companies produce.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Do any of those companies help to produce beef?

Most companies create products to sell to consumers.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (27 children)

Having fewer children is the number one thing you can do. And it's not even close.

I mean, do the other things anyway if you like. They can't hurt. They may even save you money. But they won't save an overpopulated planet.

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