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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Curious: how do they know that? Recorded history is like 5k years right?

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

I'm waiting for the hot part of the year to start where I live, and I live in a tropical country! It will be so funny! 🫠

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Don't just single out meat. All of industrialized agriculture is massively carbon and energy intensive and built on gradual topsoil depletion.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

Transitioning to plant-based diets (PBDs) has the potential to reduce diet-related land use by 76%, diet-related greenhouse gas emissions by 49%, eutrophication by 49%, and green and blue water use by 21% and 14%, respectively, whilst garnering substantial health co-benefits

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Plant-based foods have a significantly smaller footprint on the environment than animal-based foods. Even the least sustainable vegetables and cereals cause less environmental harm than the lowest impact meat and dairy products [9].

https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/14/8/1614/htm

If I source my beef or lamb from low-impact producers, could they have a lower footprint than plant-based alternatives? The evidence suggests, no: plant-based foods emit fewer greenhouse gases than meat and dairy, regardless of how they are produced.

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Plant-based protein sources – tofu, beans, peas and nuts – have the lowest carbon footprint. This is certainly true when you compare average emissions. But it’s still true when you compare the extremes: there’s not much overlap in emissions between the worst producers of plant proteins, and the best producers of meat and dairy.

https://ourworldindata.org/less-meat-or-sustainable-meat

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Ouch, too soon op, too soon...

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Don't worry all of this will soon be over.

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[–] liontigerwings 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

So you're saying it's a cycle /s

[–] SamB 11 points 2 years ago

Sure, it will cool down in a few million years. We’ll be fine.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I read this as olive oil and meat. LOL. Yum, steak!

[–] UhBell 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Try avocado oil instead to avoid hot boxing your kitchen

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Here we stand at this fork in the road, We got no time to waste, Oh which way shall we go? This whole world’s spinning out of control, Oh which way shall we go, Which way shall we go? I can’t believe this, It makes me sick. “Drones In The Valley” - Cage the Elephant

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