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Eating meat creates four times more greenhouse gases than being vegan, landmark study finds (www.independent.co.uk)

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[-] decripter37@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Since it isn't mentioned in the article, here is the reference: paper (2014)

In the study it even shows how driving a 10 years car for 6000 miles is rougly two years of saved emission with a meat->vegan switch.

I don't know, changing dietary is obviously good for the health, but these results seems to make pretty useless changes, use the bike and save twice as much.

EDIT: There is a new paper (2023), it is in a reply.

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[-] msmc101 11 points 1 year ago

It's not because of meat it's because of unsustainable farming practices being used on a massive scale. Implement some fucking laws about it and maybe we wouldn't have this problem

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[-] darcy@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago

"study finds eating meat is bad"

no sh*t

[-] BeeOneTwoThree@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago

People can't think critically over why they prefer meat over vegetables. They just think they do it because hurr durr meat tastes better or you need protines.

If they actually think about the fact that they have been eating meat for every meal since they were a child they might understand that it is just a habit they have formed.

I strongly suggest to those people to try to have 1 dinner a week without meat or fish. It has nothing todo about taste and all about habits and what you are used to.

Try to challenge yourself a little bit and you might get a better perspective over these things.

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