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[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago (13 children)

It's also much tastier.

There are plenty of things that create more greenhouse gases that should be more thoroughly regulated than eating meat.

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

It largely depends on the way the meat is produced.

You may have beef that is corn fed so you use all the energy of multiple times more corn production and transport to feed them vs. just eating the corn.

Or you may have ranched grass fed beef that eats grass in a field that required nothing other than a fence. No plowing, destroying soil with pesticides and running heavy machinery. A few hundred years ago there were 3 times more roaming bison than there are cows in the US today, so gas isn’t really an issue.

Best reason to go cut down on meat is for health reasons. And be careful of where your meat is sourced.

Correction: it is a factor of 2 not 3. See reply for source.

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I haven't clicked through, but I bet they meant "producing meat."

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 5 months ago

The vegan brigade is back out. I dont care. I'm still eating meat. I always finish my meals and I hate wasted food. I'm not going to feel guilty that your skinny ass survives on fucking leaves, nuts and beans that turns you into an ultrapreachy unbearable cunt. And stop diverting attention from your fucking palm oil and avacado farms

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (11 children)

Do you want to REALLY cut down on pollution? Stop giving free money to the giant corporations that are causing the most of it.

I'm not going to be vegan and I'm not going to eat bugs. If the corporations want to stop climate change, the corporations are causing the most of it.

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's not because of meat it's because of unsustainable farming practices being used on a massive scale. Implement some fucking laws about it and maybe we wouldn't have this problem

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Who gives a fuck about greenhouse gasses. All the creatures we create are our children, and all are owed the unconditional love and protection of their creators. The experiences of animals are real and matter. Their suffering is identical in nature to your own. It harms us when we take pleasure in cruelty and violence.

You work so hard to block out that simple reality. The destruction of climate, personal health, and ecosystems, those are all just incidental to the atrocity that we are committing on intelligent creatures. You cannot enjoy a cheeseburger or bacontho while you are watching Dominion. Your enjoyment is predicated on fucking DENIAL.

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Vegans create more than four times the noise pollution doe.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 years ago (11 children)

Oh no, people are vocal about stopping animal abuse and climate change, how terrible!

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[–] [email protected] -4 points 2 years ago (6 children)
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[–] [email protected] -4 points 2 years ago

Do you want a warmer earth or everything that eats plants eradicated by farmers protecting their crops. Both seem like lose lose.

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