People who eat beef don't give a shit about climate change
People who eat beef don't give a shit about climate change
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I used to think like you. But then I released that you aren't gong to successfully convince billions of people to fix climate change through personal choices and carbon footprint efficiency.
Collective action to change government policy to make climate pollution uneconomical is how it changes.
Maybe that policy makes meat a luxury commodity and you get what you want, but human will is too weak to assume that people will stop eating meat out of choice.
The concept of our personal carbon footprint was one of BPs most successful ever marketing campaigns to avoid their accountability.
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Or animal wellbeing.
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Climate change is animal well-being, just on a global scale.
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agriculture is also contributing to human accelerated climate change, jsyk.
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People care only enough to criticise corporations, no personal accountability
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The carbon footprint is a creation of BP’s marketing wing.
Personal accountability is important, but don’t let it distract you from the fact that corporations have worked for decades to ensure their profitability at our communal expense.
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Your downvotes prove my point, let's watch it unfold.
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Nah you’re just a kid with a “hot take” we’ve all seen beaten into the ground before.
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You ain't wrong 😒
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It's not so binary, so I disagree with the premise. Ofc I upvoted it. 👍
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Thanks for not eating beef then! You’re saving the planet. It’s a bit cooler outside today, the effects of your sacrifice are already noticeable. What would we do without people like … oh wait, gotta go, my steak‘s almost done.
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I eat beef and care deeply about a sustainable biosphere. The future depends on Forages. https://youtu.be/bDnZ-oNjatY
Top Soil depletion should also be very scary to people, its quickly running out via current mono-cropping industrial farming. The only way to restore top soil is via ruminants
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Oh my, if you actually care then wait until you hear about beef farming in the Amazon rain forest.
https://www.farmsanctuary.org/news-stories/amazon-deforestation-beef-industry/
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Now your moving the goal posts.
Your original post was "There exist no people who eat beef and care about the environment". This is clearly wrong, and I disagree.
Now you want to argue "There exists at least one practice in cattle farming that isn't a net positive for the environment" - Factory framing of both cattle, and mono-cropping, is bad for the environment - I agree.
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Judging from the comments, this is truly an unpopular opinion. I wonder why it's got so many downvotes ... It is what it says on the tin.
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It's low effort rage bait
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Like a decade ago, I got to see Paul Hawken speak. His organization reviews the science to determine which methods are most impactful for reducing climate change. Here's their list: https://drawdown.org/solutions/table-of-solutions. The idea really stuck with me - and I was surprised by the impact of some activities.
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You can have different degrees of giving a shit, though. Like you can give some shit, just not enough to quit beef.
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This is a wrong opinion.
Eating is what keeps humans alive.
If you live and care about the environment, stop driving, reduce the consumption of industrialised products.
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You can live a full life without ever eating beef.
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Is it really a full life without cordon bleu?
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People who fly in planes...
People who drive cars...
People who work for corporations...
People who eat imported off-season fruits and vegetables...
People who have children...
There are thousands of personal choices everyone could make to make the world a better place, and none of them will be effective on their own. We're all thoroughly fucked because the rich control the world and they think they will be able to ride out the collapse on their private islands and gated farms. Nothing you and I can do will stop the apocalypse, so stop being judgemental about choices other people make, and just enjoy the ride.
Beef farming has a massive direct impact on the environment, with rainforest being cleared to make way for cattle. It's so bad that you don't even have to give it up to make a real difference - just eat less of it. Eat a different meat instead, which has less of an impact.
Of all the things you can do to help mitigate climate change, reducing the amount of beef you eat is probably the easiest, healthiest and cheapest thing you can do. The fact that people don't makes the OP's point.
Sure, but one person not eating beef doesn't have a direct impact on beef farming. People are already eating less beef now because prices have become unrealistic for most people, and yet it's not having a direct effect on the environment. Cattle herds in America are at a 30 year low, but it's mostly small ranchers going out of business. Factory farming is still destroying the climate, the conglomerates are just relocating their herds to better hide the damage and reduce overhead costs.
Personal choices are good. People should make good personal choices, because it is what they believe and how they want to affect the world. It is healthier and cheaper to eat less beef. It's also cruel and disgusting the way factory farms operate, and the processing practices will probably make a lot of people sick.
But your argument that people should eat less beef because it will help the environment is flawed and hollow. Cattle farming is bad for the environment, but it is not true that eating less of it will help the environment. Oligarchs are clearing the rainforests because we've stripped the carbon from American topsoil, and it's now cheaper to import beef than it is to raise cows in the Midwest. That additional damage to what should be protected forests, not to mention the global shipping and transportation, more than offsets the reduction in the total number of cows. And it's not like pig farming or chicken farming or fishing is much better for the environment.
True change cannot be acheived with personal choices. We need legislative action, and we need to demand it of our politicians. It needs to happen now, and it needs to be drastic. We need strict environmental regulations and strict enforcement. And none of that is likely, so you may as well enjoy your cheeseburger.