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Eating meat is the second largest contribution to lifestyle emissions generally after having children. It takes a thousand gallons of water to produce a typical
by drekk 4y ago
Eating meat is the second largest contribution to lifestyle emissions generally after having children. It takes a thousand gallons of water to produce a typical burger patty. You can have as many of those in the desert as you'd like. Heck, we even grow the alfalfa to feed those cows in the desert.
People act like going vegetarian is some giant sacrifice. It's not that hard. Westerners just view it as poor people stuff. If you want meat to be a luxury so bad then let's cut the subsidies and see what the real cost of it is when you factor in the actual impact.
- aunty_helen 4y agoVery American centric farming practices and concerns you have. Not everywhere grows 2 acres of corn to feed to livestock. I grew up on a farm in New Zealand, water is plentiful, cows eat grass and are calved on milk that for one reason or another would be wasted otherwise. Processing of the meat was done in the paddock by a home kill butcher. In the same way people like going on cruises but don’t worry about how much bunker fuel it burns, I like eating meat and will continue to do so. If you want to be vegetarian great, but I’m making a lifestyle choice that I’ll eat meat because I enjoy it and all of the dishes that can’t be made without it.
- neuralRiot 4y agoSee my “box” above and all its content, I’ll summarize -“I only eat meat/eggs/milk from my uncle’s farm” - “I only eat what I hunt, kill, fish, trap, find” - “Plants have feelings too!” - “Studies are not conclusive/improperly done/biased/too old” - “I love meat” -“Lab meat is the future” - “ But mice/bees/small animals/ butterflies/ bedbugs in fields” - “Plant based diets are elitist” - “Protein tho” - “B12 tho” - “A friend of the brother of the neighbor of my dentist ended in the hospital after trying to be vegan for 6 hours.” After being vegan for 10+ years I’ve heard everything, you know what all sounds to me? “I don’t care enough to make the slightest effort”.
- scns 4y agoAnimals have to be fed B12 for the meat to contain any. They bacteria who provided it have been killed off by industrial farming practices.
- aunty_helen 4y agoYes I see you offering a lot of “content” while selectively engaging with people. The equivalent of running up to someone shouting your viewpoint and then moving on the to next victim. The thing that seems to be escaping you is that others have different value systems and desires. So I’ll agree with you, as per your definition, people don’t care enough about what you care about to put effort in to align themselves the way you have aligned.
- neuralRiot 4y agoI'd like to offer a lecture on why I do what I do, but the nature of the medium forces me to engage with different people at different paces, I do so only to clear misconceptions that have been so entrenched ad parroted that everyone assume as truths without taking time to verify if they actually hold any ground. As for "what I care about", it's simply the respect to other species, we've been feed an individualistic concept of life that might be pleasurable in the short run but, as you might have probably noticed in the environmental effects, and the general destruction of our world, is not very wise for the future of our species.