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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
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/
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.
There is no practice in cattle farming that is a net positive for the environment. Methane is a potent greenhouse gas, and cattle produce a fuck ton of it.
Ah, ruminants are part of the normal biocycle, they produce methane in a cyclic fashion and sequester it in top soil. They are not net producers of methane, they are nature itself. If you look at the entire biocycle the methane is just in movement.
Without ruminants we wouldn't have top soil. I encourage you to watch Dr Ballerstedt's lecture i shared with you two posts ago.
When you deforest an acre of the Amazon rain-forest to raise beef cattle it's not a part of the normal bio-cycle. You don't even know where your beef comes from when you eat it at a restaurant, do you? 🤡
Your moving the goalpost again.
You don’t even know where your beef comes from when you eat it at a restaurant
And you know that each bit of plants on your plate is locally sourced, not mono-cropped, using no pesticides, no industrial inputs, no imported fertilizers, and has never seen the inside of a sysco truck?
Please, you just want to argue and calling me a clown demonstrates how reductive your thinking is.
Whataboutism
What about any of this has to do with your original thesis that nobody cares about the environment and can eat beef?
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.
You can’t do all the good the world needs but the world needs all the good you can do.
I agree with you but you are also undermining direct action.
People should be cutting all of that shit where ever possible
Obviously life is life but drinking water out of plastic bottles when 95% of US has safe tap water is peak braindead consumerism
choosing to shop in a different aisle in the grocery store is not direct action
Killing a specific parasite is ;)
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.
Jfc the vegan extremism in tech shows so hard on Lemmy it makes me both embarrassed to be in tech, and on Lemmy.
Fuck off. Feeling guilt (or worse yet, telling others to feel guilty) for eating beef when there exist billionaires with private jets is beyond absurd. Especially when we consider food availability, cost efficacy of feeding the populations...
Get your head out of your asshole.
You're no better than the Christofascists telling 'the gays they'll go to hell,' ramming ideology down peoples throats by way of guilt and shame. Exact same ideological posturing. Its abhorrant; it's pathetic.
I don't think it's irrational to be critical of decisions just because there are worse evils. Whataboutisms don't solve anything, because you basically invalidate any argument with "but rich people have private jets".
You can have more of a bearing on your fellow man than you do on corporate untouchables, so if you want to see change, start with the small stuff.
Do you have a moment to discuss our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ?
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I'm good thanks
I agree and I'm not even vegan. Pork and poultry are both a lot less bad for the environment, and afaik it's not at all hard to avoid beef in terms of cost and availability
Or animal wellbeing.
Climate change is animal well-being, just on a global scale.
Lol... I doubt that opinion is that unpopular but you can try the same set up with people who
Who fly for tourism Drinking bottled water at home Drive SUV Live in a large houses without sufficient head count
That ought to get people properly triggered. Beef is a low hanging fruit and even most beef eaters know this. Just eat less of it.
It's not so binary, so I disagree with the premise. Ofc I upvoted it. 👍
agriculture is also contributing to human accelerated climate change, jsyk.
True. Let's try to reduce agriculture too. Let's see what most of the farmed food is used for. Oh. It's used to feed cows for beef.
yeah that’s a fair assessment.