Eating meat creates four times more greenhouse gases than being vegan, landmark study finds

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Eating meat creates four times more greenhouse gases than being vegan, study finds
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I upvoted because this message still didn't reach everyone, but I guess it's just that people are in denial.. like, isn't this obvious? And weren't there already dozens of studies proving it?

I’ll go completely meat free when the super rich go private jet free.

Well, if everyone thinks like that nobody does anything ever.. even the richest of the rich can say "it's not because of me", because it really isn't. This is a man made disaster, but not by any single man. Some contribute more, others less, but the idea that only the rich polute is complete bonkers.

I think that's the point. People don't want to change, so they say: "I'll change when they'll change." Knowing full well that it is a deadlocked situation.

Other people doing bad things doesn't justify you doing bad things.

Agreed, but it’s too easy to come after plebs like me and my eating habits when comparably private air flight is responsible for orders of magnitude more co2.

Me turning down my heating or eating less bacon is not going to have the kind of impact that big corporations, government, and super wealthy could have if they curbed their destructive habits.

private air flight is responsible for orders of magnitude more co2.

Aviation worldwide creates 2% of man made GHG, food production 25% and could be reduced by 75% with a plant based diet.

How do we hold evil corporations accountable if not refusing to give them our money?

We can do better in our own lives while advocating for bigger change.

people ate meat for MILLIONS OF YEARS with negligible global warming effect from the animals

vegans going start blaming the Assyrianz for inventing husbandry before blaming Exxon Mobile BP

like dude pick your battles

You have no idea of the scale we are dealing with.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aba7357

Vegans still care about the ban of oil and many other topics like zero waste, it is not exclusive.

Due to the current infrastructure not everyone can just stop using fossile fuel based transport, but we all can go vegan. So yes, we pick battles, those we can win now and we still fight against what we cant change as individuals.

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