Post AXyvF3iMTZJWIghhBY by blacklight@social.platypush.tech
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 (DIR) Post #AXyvF1Y0X5qLZzqOlk by blacklight@social.platypush.tech
       2023-07-23T08:47:15Z
       
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       Eating at least 100g of meat per day means emitting at least 10 kg of CO2 per day. That's about as much as taking a flight from Amsterdam to Paris every 13 days (with an estimate footprint of about 130 kg of CO2).A vegan diet, instead, weighs "only" 2.4 kg of CO2 per day.I'll trust people about being serious on tackling climate change only when they start putting meat (especially red meat) in the same category as highly pollutant vehicles.https://news.slashdot.org/story/23/07/23/017203/eating-less-meat-like-taking-8-million-cars-off-the-road
       
 (DIR) Post #AXyvF2rBfGmNdlpEIq by gianlucafiore@metalhead.club
       2023-07-23T08:58:59Z
       
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       @blacklightAh yes, a food that has been present throughout human history is as pollutant as modern vehicles using fossil fuels. Sure.The correct answer is obviously not how much of it to consume but how it is produced. Blame the producer, not the consumer
       
 (DIR) Post #AXyvF3iMTZJWIghhBY by blacklight@social.platypush.tech
       2023-07-23T09:17:39Z
       
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       @gianlucafiore we've always eaten meat, but never historically at the rate we do today. The article is talking of about 100g of red meat per day - never in our history humans had the resources to eat beef or pork on such a regular basis.I'm not a extremist vegan, so I don't think that the solution would be to tell people to quit meat entirely. Red meat once a week may still be relatively sustainable. Just not at the rate we eat it today. We produce meat in unsustainable ways today because of its unsustainable levels of demand. And alternatives like lab-grown meat are going to be even more unsustainable.
       
 (DIR) Post #AXyvjire2xHSbyfS52 by BlahBlah@theblower.au
       2023-07-23T09:11:10Z
       
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       @blacklight I don't eat a lot of meat, heck, I don't even use a heater in winter, but when we can stop private jets and new fossil fuel mining, I am happy to do my part and give up meat entirely...
       
 (DIR) Post #AXyvjjbNIvrOto3yMK by blacklight@social.platypush.tech
       2023-07-23T09:26:23Z
       
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       @BlahBlah sure, everyone needs to play their part. That's why I've also made a comparison with flights in my post. Those who eat a big burger on a daily basis are akin to those who take a 400 km flight every 10 days or so.The most realistic solution probably isn't to stop eating meat or flying entirely, but to make people aware of their impact - and force change by increasing taxation on those high-carbon activities.