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by myshpa 3y ago
> It doesn't matter You're still focusing on carbon and carbon only, and ignoring other aspects of the problem (like increase in warming due to much potent greenhouse gases, pollution etc. etc.). > Where do you think the car
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by myshpa 3y ago
> I'm not actually sure that many species (if any) are at risk of _extinction_ Many sharks closer to extinction than feared: Red List https://phys.org/news/2019-03-sharks-closer-extinction-red.h... Overfishing
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by myshpa 3y ago
They're operating in legal space, for sure. Buying fish from others and freezing it for later use is not illegal. The rules of the game need to change. However, imposing limits isn't the solution (we have them now, and they'r
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by myshpa 3y ago
I understand that commercial fishing, like everything else, is complex and diverse with both good and bad actors. However, if it were balanced, fish populations wouldn't be in such a dire state. This suggests to an outsider that the ma
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by myshpa 3y ago
> Where did I say that? Nowhere, that's where I never said that you did. I did, and you're taking it out of context. >> Solar radiation management [problems] > And where did I write this was "good"? That&#x27
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by myshpa 3y ago
A lot of them would still end up as bycatch. Of course, a ban might not solve the problem entirely, but it would certainly help. Btw, even though the elephant ivory ban is better than nothing, elephants are still facing extinction. https:&
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by myshpa 3y ago
> Methane and N2O do not increase the amount of carbon in the ecosystem and do not change the climate in the steady state Not true ... warming potency, bio sources (like fossil fuels), deforestation, energy use, animals' inefficienc
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by myshpa 3y ago
Consuming meat & dairy is not a necessity for maintaining human health. The production of meat and dairy is correlated with acts of violence such as forced impregnation, separation of mothers and calves, dehorning, castration, debeaking
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by myshpa 3y ago
Sorry for coming out rude ... I'm spending more time than I should here, refuting same misconceptions and mistruths again and again. Call it dross if you will ... if it was somehow more valuable were I to write it alone and spend 30 mi
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by myshpa 3y ago
> a rise in meat prices if subsidies are rebalanced towards veg Good to know ... let's do it then. But those are just the subsidies ... we're still ignoring the negative environmental and health externalities of meat production
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by myshpa 3y ago
https://bluefina.com/bluefin-tuna-price-why-the-cost-is-wort... It’s true that in 2019, a 612-pound bluefin tuna sold for an incredible $3 million at Tokyo’s famous Tsukiji fish market. While this is not a typical price, it
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by myshpa 3y ago
> that it's even possible to treat livestock unethically You should really watch https://www.dominionmovement.com/watch Your statement seems to imply that the concept of livestock experiencing suffering or deserving
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by myshpa 3y ago
> Happy, well fed, cared for plants are the tastiest, healthiest and most sustainable option There, repaired it for you.
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by myshpa 3y ago
> Culture changes super slow and we need to accept this. Would you be as accepting to a wife-beater, child abuser, slaver, homophobe, etc ? > The meat eating culture is so ingrained some people literally don't see this option, wh
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by myshpa 3y ago
Also Cowspiracy, Dominion, Blackfish, The Game Changers, What the Health, Forks over knives ...
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by myshpa 3y ago
The only way to preserve tuna is not to eat wild captured fish and farmed carnivore fish (they're fed bycatch, 1 kg of farmed fish upto 5kg of bycatch). Commercial fishing is extremely destructive industry, with huge amount of bycatch
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by myshpa 3y ago
I don't really have time to discuss this any longer, so I'll use some shortcuts (and you'll surely know what helpers I'm using), before I leave this discussion, sorry. Your argument overlooks several important factors: -
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by myshpa 3y ago
> Chicken flesh, is food, ... So is Tofu ... thus people in those countries were going without. One takes 77% of the land, the other one 7%. We have so many animals to feed, that we need to deforest the Amazon (that was the discussion ab
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by myshpa 3y ago
> When I was growing up How many people were on this rock then? Was it anywhere near 8 billion people as it is now, or was it a fraction of the number? > it's definitely more expensive and involved to even temporarily switch The
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by myshpa 3y ago
> meat production is by itself carbon neutral Not really true, see above. > more expensive to better reflect its true cost, true, but it's different from "everyone needs to be vegan forever to save the planet" Not many
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by myshpa 3y ago
Good point. You're right that, in theory, meat production could be carbon neutral. But the real world isn't that simple. Current animal farming emits a lot of methane and nitrous oxide (N2O), both potent greenhouse gases (over 100
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by myshpa 3y ago
> Yes I eat chicken, and vegetarian meals 95% of the time Soy it is then ;) https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fsufs.2019.0003... Soybean is one of the primary ingredients in poultry diets ... 77% of
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by myshpa 3y ago
Yes, upto 102F ... 38.9C for the rest of the world
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by myshpa 3y ago
F$%^& Google.
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Like a hot tub: Water temperatures off Florida soar over 100 degrees(nbcnews.com)
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by myshpa 3y ago
That's easy, pretty much anything tastes like chicken ;) Try seitan with chicken spices.
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by myshpa 3y ago
There are many good vegan restaurants, even some with Michelin stars. There are vegan tv cooking shows (check youtube). There are thousands of sites with good vegan recipes. Even Jamie Oliver has 160+ vegan recipes on his site :) https:&#x
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by myshpa 3y ago
Lots of people know what needs doing, but changing things up is tough when we're so used to doing things a certain way. Plus, it doesn't help that laws often slow down the changes we need. And let's be real, these changes mig
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by myshpa 3y ago
:)
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by myshpa 3y ago
Official propaganda ... teenagers trying to fly off balconies and war on drugs and so

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