Red meat has a huge carbon footprint because cattle requires a large amount of land and water.
https://sph.tulane.edu/climate-and-food-environmental-impact-beef-consumption
Demand for steaks and burgers is the primary driver of Deforestation:
https://e360.yale.edu/features/marcel-gomes-interview
If you don’t have a car and rarely eat red meat, you are doing GREAT 🙌🙌 🙌
Sure, you can drink tap water instead of plastic water. You can switch to Tea. You can travel by train. You can use Linux instead of Windows AI’s crap. Those are great ideas. But, don’t drive yourself crazy. If you are only an ordinary citizen, remember that perfect is the enemy of good.
That’s relative privation - appeal to worse problems. It incorrectly assumes that we can or should only care about the current worst suffering and that moral concern is zero sum.
There’s very little I can do to end the wars in Ukraine, Gaza, Iran etc. But I am directly funding and maintaining the meat industry every time I buy meat.
Also don’t kill yourself, that’s cringe. Be based, fight on.
My literal taxes are funding wars and deaths to innocents. You’re preaching veganism to stop suffering for animals, I’m preaching mass suicide for the working class that have no hope for the future. We should leave the billionaires to tend to themselves.
My target audience is not here, as most people here are educated, “high” earning with some home lab and their biggest stress in life is cows life and latest Linux distro supported on some ARM laptop.
Meanwhile IRL everyone I meet live lives not worth living, with no free time working multiple jobs, no holidays, no hobbies, no books, no films, no pleasure or joys, No savings, living just to pay rent and maybe an addiction.
Is it worth living if you only depend on alcohol or opioids? I personally say pass.
If you could voluntarily STOP your taxes going to these wars, you would, right? That’s what I’m doing when I stop buying meat, literally stopping the sale of meat.
But hey, good luck with your preaching for mass suicide I guess. I’ll keep being based here on earth while you waste yourself.