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.

  • Bloomcole@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    Oh please.
    Every food needs to be transported.
    Well not if it’s produced and consumed locally but you forget you’re in capitalism where it’s cheaper to get your quinoa from 4000km away, etc.
    Also I don’t want to be fed on plant based protein.
    The world population can be fed anyway but capitalism says we need to destroy a lot of food to keep the prices down.
    And some regions don’t have food bcs it can’t get there or their crops are destroyed by war, again caused by capitalism.
    There’s a reason you don’t hear about little Greta anymore, she got wise.
    Everyone can parrot the BP carbon footprint garbage all they want, IDC. I have zero guilt