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Eating less meat ‘like taking 8m cars off road’ (www.bbc.com)

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago (3 children)

If eating no meat at all is too hard, from a climate perspective eating no beef will have the biggest impact. Eating no ruminants to be specific, but hardly anyone is eating bison/sheep/goat on the regular.

[–] Tikiporch 4 points 2 days ago

I eat bison instead of beef, that way I'm a big part of a smaller problem rather than the other way around.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I went like 90% vegetarian and switched to the meat substitutes. If I can do it, anyone can. I've always had a meat-a-saurus diet until 2-3 years ago.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I've only met one person who couldn't go veg, because they had allergies to everything: soy, legumes, nuts.

There's been a lot of obsession with protein in popular culture when in reality unless you're a bodybuilder you don't need a ton and a veg diet will suffice. And there are tons of vegan athletes.

The point I was making is that there is one step even the laziest can take to have an impact: just stop eating beef. Going full veg is better of course.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Lamb is popular in the UK. Beef is actually behind chicken and pork already.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

How many cars off the road does a dead executive take?

What about Taylor swift...

I am all about eating less meat for various reasons but this some idiotic thesis.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

A bit underwhelming when put into the context of the estimated number of cars being closer to 1.5B, but worthwhile to pursue regardless.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This would be 8 million cars in the UK alone, which has a population of 68 million.

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

Serves me right for not reading the article. I'll keep my shame up for display in public