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> "a finding that may help consumer groups and government agencies craft educational messaging around the negative health and environmental impacts of beef cons
by mytailorisrich 3y ago
> "a finding that may help consumer groups and government agencies craft educational messaging around the negative health and environmental impacts of beef consumption."
One problem right here. This pernicious narrative that eating beef/meat is bad in absolute terms.
There is no negative impact of eating beef. The negative impact always comes from excess. When it comes to human impact on the environment this is compounded by the excessive population on this planet.
- cykotic 3y agoThere is a negative impact to eating beef in the form of negative externalities. Humans are excessive in just about everything. We consume excessive amounts of materials and this consumption has the price of polluting the whole world.
- CP3f6kMA 3y agoWe produce much more than we consume. That is the wasteful part.
- cykotic 3y agoIf we produced exactly what we consume then there would still be massive amounts of waste. There would still be pollution on a global scale and still be toxic chemicals pumped into the environment. There would still be a mass extinction level event that is caused by humans.