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You do not get to decide what other people should eat.

• Maursault 5y ago
  Apparently my original point was entirely lost here, which was not to say, "hey, you can't eat beef!" But to say, ffs, this is an insane amount of excess! We don't need 31M cattle, we'd probably do just fine on the 7M that get turned into garbage, and maybe they wouldn't be if there were less of them and more care given, if, say, humanity could somehow precede profit. But please do not deceive yourself, most eat beef because they were programmed to by the beef industry marketing drilled into them since childhood, which taught us that meat was an essential nutritional staple, which was always false, but it helped to sell a lot of beef and continues to help warm things up for everyone everywhere. Also, I didn't decide anything. Science decided that all those cows are the source of upwards of 4% of US greenhouse emissions, and science also decided that eating beef massively increases risk of type 2 diabetes, coronary heart disease, stroke, colon cancer, and, uh, oh yeah, death. And though there would be no greenhouse emissions nor any health risk to you or others in so doing, I have decided neither you nor anyone else anywhere should eat my toenail clippings.