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[-] metaStatic@kbin.social 69 points 8 months ago

ITT: peasants attacking each other instead of the people responsible for gestures broadly all of this

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[-] Witchfire@lemmy.world 52 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

My partner and I are flexatarians, it's lovely. The only downside is that it's hard to not eat carb heavy, which is also an issue with vegetarianism and veganism. I feel like a spy among vegetarians.

I really don't eat a lot of meat. When I do it's usually chicken, sausage, or broth. The latter two are great for using bits of the animal that wouldn't normally be consumed alone.

[-] MisterFrog@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago

I feel very grateful that I grew up in a non-veg household that still ate tofu. And now I am a tofu fiend.

However, eggs are still far less impactful than beef, so, protein options still exist, not to mention all the nuts and beans out there.

Also, what about vegetables? Though I admit these should be part of a diet no matter what your diet is, so doesn't really count.

It's not all carbs in non-meat land, is all I'm saying.

Power to you for whatever works for you though, no judgement.

[-] girlfreddy@lemmy.ca 7 points 8 months ago

I eat pretty much the same, except almost zero carbs because of diabetes. But I've been eating like this for decades because my stomach just can't handle most beef or pork at all (except the sausage) ... it sits like a rock in my gut and takes almost a full day to start feeling normal again.

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[-] FriendBesto@lemmy.ml 47 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

You know what would really help? More so then cutting actual food intake?

How about halfing the number of golf courses? Stop using grass and let more natural plants for lawns, stop the use of private planes and also just kill or reduce the Cruise ship industry to a miniscule amount. Plus other shit rich people use that has a disproportionate huge carbon footprint. Find it funny that I never see the news --or rich, holier than thou morons-- pushing for this. Nah, they go after our food. Rich people do not care, they can eventually make beef the price of caviar per weight? Because fuck you and all of us. Why? Well they do not care. They can always pay. Easily.

For example: Bill Gates is the largest farm land owner in the USA now, he and his buddies and his rich clients will all get all the natural milk, beef, pork, chickens, lambs, veal they can eat. You? Eat lentils and maybe crickets or give his lab grown biomilq, to your kids or eat his lab meat, like a good and compliant serf. Don't think, just comply and consume. 'Cause I am sure he ain't touching the stuff himself or is his family. He is not going to be the long term guinea pig. I wouldn't either.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/03/13/biomilq-artificial-breast-milk

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bill-gates-backed-lab-grown-195311408.html

Carbon footprint of food production in the USA is 9% of total. Beef is about 3% of total. So 9 for both beef and crops.

Just the cruise ship industry, for example, is about 3.3% of the world's total carbon footprint. Let's kill that. Also private jet use. They can fly Business class, if they are not hypocrites.

[-] soggy_kitty@sopuli.xyz 30 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I couldn't help but think there's no way luxury cruise ships is 3% of global carbon emissions

Was this your source? https://www.greenmatch.co.uk/blog/maritime-sustainability

It says "cruise ships and other maritime vessels" which isn't cleared up anywhere in the article. You have to remember that if this includes container ships it's fully expected, we all buy shit from across the world all the time.

This article says the shipping industry is 3%: https://sinay.ai/en/how-much-does-the-shipping-industry-contribute-to-global-co2-emissions/

So either greenmatch is intentionally rage baiting everyone or they both emit 3% each, sus.

I really hate misinformation. It's very easy to rally and hate on the rich but it would be very funny to me if that 3% you said to "get rid of" means you would have to completey change your consumer habits and not only just affect "the rich"

But yes regardless don't mistake my comment for defending luxury cruise ships.

[-] YungOnions@sh.itjust.works 25 points 8 months ago

I mean, we can do all of those things and reduce our meat intake. They're not mutually exclusive. How about we encourage people to do everything they can, rather than gate-keeping solutions?

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[-] whalebiologist@lemmy.world 35 points 8 months ago

I've been on this diet for 5 years, I call it the "only meat on sale" diet

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[-] Chocrates@lemmy.world 29 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I'm watching the new climate town video as I see this.

Glad the media is still telling us it is our fault as consumers while industry and governments actively work against us.

Yes eating plants is better for the environment and your body. Yes I try to eat mostly plants and I encourage you all to try it, but Capitalism is what is killing us and eating a salad isnt going to fix it.

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[-] FluffyPotato@lemm.ee 24 points 8 months ago

Ya know what would also limit it: Actually stopping like the top 5 companies causing like 60% of all pollution.

Just stop doing carbon credits because it's a literal scam and just shut down any factory that pollutes more than an allowed amount until they get it under control.

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[-] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 24 points 8 months ago

Is this actually news? Seems old to me, thanks OP though for bringing it up again.

[-] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 14 points 8 months ago

The term flexitarian is new to me anyway. Happy this concept is getting more press anyway

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[-] Trashboat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 8 months ago

Maybe I’m being too pessimistic, but feels like this is yet another study to add to the mountain of evidence that people will ignore because they’ve deemed the taste of meat worth an impending global calamity. When will the average persons tipping point be? When oceanfront property is available in Tennessee?

[-] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 18 points 8 months ago

When will the average persons tipping point be?

When its too expensive to buy meat. Its not like this is new either. Here's meat consumption over the last 100 years in the USA:

It tracks decently with the rise in GDP in the USA:

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[-] Steve@communick.news 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Individual people choosing to "do the right thing" is never going to work. It doesn't matter if any individual chooses the right food, or kind of car, anything else.

Blameing people for not cutting their meat intake, is misplaced.

The government needs to change the market by subsidizing "good" things and taxing "bad" things. That's the only way to change behavior at scale.

[-] birthday_attack@lemm.ee 13 points 8 months ago

Ok but remember when Republicans made up that Biden was going to "outlaw burgers" with the Green New Deal? And how even the made up idea that the govt would stop subsidizing meat caused half the nation to flip their shit, while the other half went "no don't be silly, we would never ever touch your precious tendies."

Appealing to individuals is important because without shifting the public's perception of meat as it relates to climate change, the government will be too terrified to enact those kind of changes for fear of getting voted out by the angry, barbecue-loving mobs.

Until flexitarians, vegetarians, and vegans (I'm vegan btw, just need everyone to know that) become a sizable enough percentage of the voting population, these systemic changes are never going to even be considered by our leaders. So we should keep pressing the importance of these changes to collectively move ourselves closer to that tipping point.

[-] grue@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

The government needs to change the market by subsidizing “good” things and taxing “bad” things.

Or at least start by ceasing to fucking subsidize the bad things!

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[-] SkyNTP@lemmy.ml 22 points 8 months ago

Here's an idea, maybe the affluent and ultra rich can stop their decadent luxuries before us peasants give up the few pleasures in life left to us.

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[-] 3volver@lemmy.world 21 points 8 months ago

You know what could also limit global heating? If the fucking wealthy stopped flying in their private jets and stopped cruising in their yachts and stopped buying their 3rd house. Focus on the solutions. Subsidize green energy, tax the oil companies, ban private jets, etc. You know, things that would have an actual impact.

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[-] RustyShackleford@programming.dev 21 points 8 months ago

Does "flexitarian" mean "eat less meat", basically?

I refuse to click the link because I hate the guardian.

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 12 points 8 months ago

Yes.

The best thing you can do to limit global warming without political power is to not reproduce. The next best thing is to quit eating meat. The less meat you eat the better. And as a bonus it’s highly unlikely to be as much of a sacrifice as not having a wanted child.

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[-] m13@lemmy.world 16 points 8 months ago

Or we could eat like 3 billionaires.

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[-] 9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works 12 points 8 months ago

i cut down my meat consumption to almost zero. maybe some beef pho on the weekend sometimes..... but i HATE the term flexitarian.... i refuse to call myself that...

[-] Skua@kbin.social 12 points 8 months ago

Ehh, what you call yourself isn't important. The point is you're still eating a diet that's compatible with not fucking the environment

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[-] tunetardis@lemmy.ca 11 points 8 months ago

I guess I'm essentially a flexitarian at this point, though I have never labelled myself as such. I tend to opt for non-meat options but am nowhere near vegan as I only learned after my daughter started dating one. What an incredible minefield it is! You have to sit around and analyze absolutely everything. Like can you believe pepsi is vegan but not diet pepsi?!? But diet coke is. I don't know about coke zero and am frankly afraid to ask…

[-] Uranium3006@kbin.social 9 points 8 months ago

Wait what did they put in the diet pepsi?

[-] jeffw@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago

I think it’s a trade secret. Probably something like how Guinness used to use fish bladders as a filter

[-] lettruthout@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago

For me being flexible help ramp down my consumption of meat. Each day without was a win. These days it's very rare that I eat any meat. It's become boring compared to the fun of a meatless diet.

[-] Leviathan@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

I guess I've been a flexitarian since 2016ish. I have a few vegetarian days a week for environmental reasons.

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