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Red meat has a huge carbon footprint because cattle requires a large amount of land and water.

https://sph.tulane.edu/climate-and-food-environmental-impact-beef-consumption

Demand for steaks and burgers is the primary driver of Deforestation:

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2022-beef-industry-fueling-amazon-rainforest-destruction-deforestation/

https://e360.yale.edu/features/marcel-gomes-interview

https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2023-06-02/almost-a-billion-trees-felled-to-feed-appetite-for-brazilian-beef

If you don't have a car and rarely eat red meat, you are doing GREAT ๐Ÿ™Œ ๐Ÿ™Œ

Sure, you can drink tap water instead of plastic water. You can switch to Tea. You can travel by train. You can use Linux instead of Windows AI's crap. Those are great ideas. But don't drive yourself crazy. If you are only an ordinary citizen, remember that perfect is the enemy of good.

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[โ€“] Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 2 points 22 minutes ago* (last edited 20 minutes ago) (1 children)

I thought it was overthrowing oppressive world governments and holding environmentally-damaging businesses accountable for their actions, hm.

When populations are starving to death in 2044, pat yourself on the back for not eating red meat.

[โ€“] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 20 minutes ago

We can do both.

[โ€“] pleaaaaaze@lemmings.world 0 points 8 minutes ago

Voting is guilt. If you vote for fake ass liberals and their posturing ecology you're no better than a rich guy with a yacht

[โ€“] Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 1 points 8 minutes ago

Sure, but like ~8 companies produce like 75% of the pollution. Their biggest con was shifting the responsibility to individuals to change their habits instead of forcing them to clean up their factories

[โ€“] 0x0@lemmy.zip 2 points 31 minutes ago

Cute.
I'd be more interested in adding private and commercial airliners, long-haul trucks and tanker ships to the list for comparison.

[โ€“] Kiwi_fella@lemmy.world 3 points 45 minutes ago (1 children)

I have a motorbike I use infrequently, I eat red meat rarely, and I have no children. I feel like I'm doing my part.

[โ€“] Blackmist@feddit.uk 19 points 2 hours ago (7 children)

That's almost certainly the biggest dietary change you can make.

But for overall impact, there's one winner and it's bigger than everything else put together.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jul/12/want-to-fight-climate-change-have-fewer-children

Capitalism hates this one weird trick.

[โ€“] paranoia@feddit.dk 4 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

Live Carfree (from petrol) - 2.4
Petrol to hybrid - 0.52
Electric Car to Carfree - 1.15

Seems they left out a pretty large item in "switch from petrol to electric - 1.25"

[โ€“] Blackmist@feddit.uk 1 points 10 minutes ago

Yeah, that's one that doesn't take a lot of lifestyle change either.

Although it'll vary based on how much you drive. My wife drives a tiny car and did under 3000 miles last year, so wouldn't actually make a lot of difference for us. Might as well run it until it keels over, by which time electrics will be even better than they are now. Or enshittified beyond belief. One of the two.

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[โ€“] piyuv@lemmy.world 10 points 2 hours ago (3 children)

How much less red meat to offset all the private jet that flew to Venice for bezosโ€™ wedding?

[โ€“] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 19 minutes ago

No, its fine, he paid for a carbon offset. That makes everything ok.

[โ€“] 0x0@lemmy.zip 3 points 30 minutes ago

Don't go pointing at the obvious now. It's not them, it's you! Do your recycling, stop yapping about jets... /s

You're right, better do nothing.

[โ€“] Zacryon@feddit.org 11 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Do billionaires count as red meat? I am asking for a friend.

[โ€“] CrazyLikeGollum@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

At least according to the USDA pork is a red meat. Presumably long pig is the same.

However, that particular red meat is ethically sourced and environmentally friendly to consume. The lack of sustainability is, in this case, desirable.

[โ€“] ZeffSyde@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Imagine the cumulative collection of micro plastics and prescription drugs that a cannibalistic diet would cause. We already have prions to worry about.

[โ€“] ZeffSyde@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Creutzfeldtโ€“Jakob disease - Wikipedia https://share.google/C9Ufc4aBUcPgfBxBl

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