• ralothar@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    That still leaves over 80% in other industries. Though I’ll admit dialing back ones meat consumption is advisable anyway, if only for health reasons, blaming meat consumption on anti-veganism is naive. For me personally it’s about texture and taste and not somebody telling me that eating salad leads to deficiencies. Until real alternatives, not some crappy beyond meat soy proteins, emerge and are affordable, nothing will change on that front

    Edit: phrasing

    • Lenins2ndCat@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Yeah but we need to dial everything back, because we can’t dial all industries back. Every single gain that we can make is worthwhile and this one is easy for almost everyone except those with understandable dietary problems like IBS sufferers and crohns. It’s an area that we could completely eradicate our carbon output in, not just that but certain crops can actually be carbon positive so increasing what we need of them through replacement in diet is actually beneficial.

      If you don’t make the change there won’t be any texture or taste soon because climate change is going to make the food supply collapse. If your country doesn’t have a revolution in the chaos the government will go into rationing and you will have no choice. If the revolution succeeds the new government will do the same. And if that does not happen the country will just be in persistent civil war as people starve and die. These are the incoming realities of climate change. They are unavoidable if action is not taken literally yesterday.