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Eating Meat Is Bad for Climate Change, and Here Are All the Studies That Prove It (sentientmedia.org)
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[โ€“] federatingIsTooHard@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Eating meat financially supports the raising of those animals

those people are paid long before you walk into the store or restaurant

[โ€“] Sasha@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 years ago

Sure, but I meant the demand more than anything. I know I individually won't have a noticeable effect but reducing demand will. It will take significant collective action, but it's pretty much the only option we have in the current system.

I'm sick of just accepting how things are, so I decided to stop participating, better than nothing.