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.
I’ve got a special trick where I can make pretty much the entire internet rage at me. Check it out:
I’m vegetarian.
Imagine how being vegan makes you the most horrible pariah. Change of diet was not difficult at all, but I wasn’t quite prepared for the social consequences.
What social consequences?
Being viewed as an extremist, while you feel it is the most sensible thing to do. Being around people who don’t care or don’t know about cruelty to animals, warming up the atmosphere or nature’s loss of habitat - and consequently the future of our children and grandchildren. The sadness and anger that this sometimes causes. Feeling a distance growing towards friends and family. Being left out when everybody else is eating cake. Luckily there’s a small, but growing vegan community that you don’t have to explain yourself to and whom you understand perfectly.
Haha nice!
This chart theoretically demonstrates the validity of vegetarianism if that beef herd line is truly the outlier it appears to be.
Nobody cares lol