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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™Œ๐Ÿ™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€“] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago (7 children)

question, how come beef is so cheap it's it takes so much resources?

if it's just subsidies, then we should get rid of them

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[โ€“] Sniatch@feddit.org 1 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Eating meat also means lots of animals have to suffer just for yout pleasure. I know people get triggert real fast if you mention how bad eating meat really is. It's like a drug for some people.

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[โ€“] HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)
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[โ€“] commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 4 days ago (6 children)

the graphic you posted comes from this article, which shows it is based on poore-nemecek 2018. i've detailed teh problems with this study in another top-level comment here, but, basically, it's not good science. i feel you're spreading misinformation.

[โ€“] LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world 17 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (11 children)

I wouldnโ€™t call this โ€œdetailing the problems.โ€ You wrote a few paragraphs and possibly listed a few.

How much of cattle feed is cottonseed? In the US only or worldwide? What are alternatives? Would they be better or worse?

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[โ€“] xeekei@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 days ago

I like chicken more anyway.

Being alive is bad for the environment.

[โ€“] poplargrove@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Mmm, close to 700 comments. Have fun yall.

[โ€“] SpaceCheeseWizard@lemmy.zip 6 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Coffee is a big one for me along with cheese. I'm waiting for cheese to get better with vegan alternatives, the last time I tried shredded vegan cheese it melted and tasted like plastic, although that was 3 years ago now, and I am willing to try again.

Coffee is something I think can be helped if people were more picky on what brands they chose from. I do not believe Starbucks is the most sustainable coffee brand, as they trained me when I worked there to believe.

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[โ€“] Kyouki@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Yeah let us do the microscopic differences while some industry totally ignores it...

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