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://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2022-beef-industry-fueling-amazon-rainforest-destruction-deforestation/

https://e360.yale.edu/features/marcel-gomes-interview

https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2023-06-02/almost-a-billion-trees-felled-to-feed-appetite-for-brazilian-beef

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.

  • sunzu2
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    420 hours ago

    They also fly and vacation a lot more too lol

    • @LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world
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      520 hours ago

      I honestly don’t know what your message is. Rich people shouldn’t fly but they can eat meat? Neither? Poor people should eat meat but not fly? Both? Neither? Middle class people?

      • sunzu2
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        220 hours ago

        Flying is bigger issue than eating red meat long with tourism generally.

        While reducing red meat is good… Targeting beef as solution is disingenuous at best. Likely a shill op

        Generally people who shill it are also the worst offenders about flying and tourism.

        You can eat all vegan all your life but once you fly or go on the cruise… It doesn’t matter.

        • @leftytighty@slrpnk.net
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          12 hours ago

          If someone is beating the shit out of you and someone else is pissing on your face, assuming you’re not into it, would you say it’s not worth stopping the guy beating on you because you’ll still be pissed on?

        • @LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world
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          820 hours ago

          I didn’t realize flying was destroying ocean ecosystems by overfishing and deforesting the Amazon.

          All of this can be bad. All of it can be called out. You don’t have to cancel one with the other. You don’t have to call people who point at the meat problem “shills.”