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Makes me concerned about the pressure to abstain from eating meat that I've been seeing recently. I wonder if, as a species, the trend away from meat eating wi
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Makes me concerned about the pressure to abstain from eating meat that I've been seeing recently. I wonder if, as a species, the trend away from meat eating will be to our collective detriment.
- LeonB 5y agoDon’t let this study have any influence on you at all. It was funded by the meat industry and is a ridiculous meta analysis of studies that make no effort at all to separate cause from correlation. (I’m a meat eater - but junk science should be flagged off HN and such “scientists” should be shunned)
- issa 5y agoNot eating meat is one of the major things a person can do to reduce their carbon footprint, so I would imagine more people giving up meat would be very helpful collectively.
- bluedevil2k 5y agoBS - the steak you didn’t eat yesterday doesn’t resurrect the cow, it just gets eaten by someone else.
- SavantIdiot 5y agoSo what about the meat that gets thrown out when no one buys it, causing the stores to order less, causing the CAFOs to grow fewer head of cattle? The economics-101 concept of "supply and demand" would like a word with you...
- bluedevil2k 5y agoThe OP didn’t say it’s the best thing a society can do, he said it’s the best a PERSON can do. One person deciding not to eat meat will not fix the climate crisis.
- SavantIdiot 5y agoI think you are missing a huge point. A society is made up of lots of "one person" entities. For your argument to be valid, I need to accept that you seriously believe the OP was claiming one person can fix climate change. So which is it?
- bluedevil2k 5y agoPeople not eating meat will lower demand, the price goes down, someone who couldn’t afford meat before now can and eats the meat. Either way, that cow is getting eaten. See my other comment…Meat consumption in China is up 30% over the last 7 years and expected to continue to climb. Meat producers will find a hungry mouth somewhere in the world to feed.
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- issa 5y agoI have never understood this attitude. "If I don't drive a Hummer, someone else will use the gas".
- shyiko 5y agoThe less animals products you buy the lower the demand. Have enough people reduce meat consumption and fewer animals will be bred and killed. It's not about "resurrecting the cow".
- bluedevil2k 5y agoWrong, the supply of meat can’t keep up with world-wide demand. Chinas meat consumption has increased 30% in the last 7 years and will continue to climb. As supply increases, prices fall and more people can purchase the meat. If you don’t eat the steak, someone else will.
- dalmo3 5y agoSure, but it signals demand for future cows.
- generalizations 5y agoAt the cost of making society significantly more depressed? No, thank you.
- bluedevil2k 5y ago> trend away from meat Don’t let your American (or Western European) viewpoint distort the overall world trend of increasing meat consumption. As more Chinese enter the middle class, their meat consumption rises drastically. It’s up 33% in the last 7 years. * https://www.reuters.com/article/sponsored/china-appetite-still-growing https://www.reuters.com/article/sponsored/china-appetite-sti...