59 points

great. but why don’t we go double and also take 8m cars off the road?

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I didn’t eat meat today so apparently I took 8m cars off the road.

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I refuse to drive, I walk and transit, 1 car off road for decades.

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How long have you been doing that, and I’m guessing you live in a city?

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The price of electric cars will do that on its own, once we phase out petrol.

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Let’s aim for at least a nice billion.

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Why don’t we start by making private planes illegal instead? That amount of pollution to just move around a couple of rich assholes is insane.

Also, let’s force the industry to repair and upgrade all their infrastructure to apply more recent carbon filters. That way, we could block a “very” big chuck of the problem at his source.

But no… Let’s keep taking away things from the middle classes instead. After all, who needs meat, bugs are way cheaper, right?

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Whole lot of whaboutism from personal responsibility and no body wants you to eat bugs.

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Without meat, we need proteins. So either alimentar integrators (which are not cheap) or any “cheaper” alternative, and bugs are cheaper of fruit cultivation.

Also, the private plane thing was a provocation, but in all honesty, planes ARE the most polluting vehicles, and private one are the worst.

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You can get your protein from lentils, chickpeas, tofu, tempeh, black beans, quinoa, peanut butter, almonds, spirulina, chia seeds, broccoli, and spinach.

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instead

We’re not doing either, because both the animal agriculture and private airline industry exist to benefit our liege lords

You’ll be eating the bugs (and liking it) soon enough. Just have to find the profit motive

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Great an astroturfer…

You’re lying about ever being vegan as if you were you would’ve known that processed vegan food products are not the only alternatives to eating meat as there are pulses, peas, beans, lentils, nuts, seeds and whole grains you can have instead.

Plant-based meat is actually healthier than processed meat and red meat.

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you would’ve known that processed vegan food products are not the only alternatives

I think you should give them the benefit of the doubt in this instance – they could be dumb as a rock.

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They’re clearly trolling, I have never heard of this instance.

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Someone is trolling.

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It’s far more nutrient rich than any of the overly processed vegan garbage

Nothing more nutritious than slop. Keep stuffing your face with hamburger

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Lies again, the vast majority of meat is factory farmed.

The exceptional rare “local farms” do not stop the exploitation and slaughter.

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overly processed vegan garbage.

Am not vegan, but your issue here is eating all these “plant-based” ultra-processed food and thinking that’s the only way. Just eat more veggie and mushroom and bean.

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Yeah but the slop being market to gen pop is literally same quality as a hotdog

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22 points

If eating no meat at all is too hard, from a climate perspective eating no beef will have the biggest impact. Eating no ruminants to be specific, but hardly anyone is eating bison/sheep/goat on the regular.

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Lamb is popular in the UK. Beef is actually behind chicken and pork already.

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Is lamb a regular dish or more of a Christmas and special occasion dish? I’m not in the UK so I genuinely don’t know. Not sure that you can get lamb at a fast food joint like you can with beef burgers.

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I’m in the US and can get lamb at fast food joints. Go to any Mediterranean shop for a gyro. Afaik it’s even more available in the UK since it’s primarily sold as people food, not dog food like the US market.

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A joint of lamb is a special occasion dish, but I think the statistics are skewed by the massive number of drunkenly-consumed kebabs

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Shepherd’s pie is a fairly regular Sunday meal.

And kebab meat is normally lamb. You can get that at pretty much any takeaway chippy in the country, and is traditionally eaten with about six pints of cheap lager.

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I went like 90% vegetarian and switched to the meat substitutes. If I can do it, anyone can. I’ve always had a meat-a-saurus diet until 2-3 years ago.

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I’ve only met one person who couldn’t go veg, because they had allergies to everything: soy, legumes, nuts.

There’s been a lot of obsession with protein in popular culture when in reality unless you’re a bodybuilder you don’t need a ton and a veg diet will suffice. And there are tons of vegan athletes.

The point I was making is that there is one step even the laziest can take to have an impact: just stop eating beef. Going full veg is better of course.

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Beef should be easy, too, because it’s so goddamn expensive.

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I eat bison instead of beef, that way I’m a big part of a smaller problem rather than the other way around.

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I’ve seen very few 8 metre cars on the road…

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Visit the US, look for “dualies.” 6.5m long trucks and people use them as daily drivers.

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That’s too dystopian for my mind to even imagine…

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That’s because I ate less meat, duh.

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12 yards long, 2 lanes wide, 65 tons of American pride!

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