Why would the industry continue if no one was eating the meat? What a peculiar argument...
threeduck
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A Poorer & Nemecek meta-analysis (2008) found that beef uses 20x more land and produces 10-20x more GHG than alternative meat (like impossible meat or classic fake meat at the supermarket). Lean beef is 26g of protein, plant meat is 25g (plant meat does have half the kilokalories)
I did the research for you! All I ask is that you forever go vegan forever thank you (or maybe just try impossible mince in your spag bol next time, either or)
If everyone decided to stop eating meat today, 10-15% of the entire planets GHG gasses drop, an area the size of all of the Americas can be rewilded (animal ag uses 50-100x the land per kilo of food over plant based), we stop wasting 70% of our antibiotics on animals, the plastic left in the ocean drops by half.
Most things in life you have little control over: you can't easily stop driving to work, you can't easily remove all your plastic usage, you can't easily cut back on your electricity usage.
But you CAN easily cut out animal ag. Like, today. You can just look up plant based recipes for dinner instead of the meat ones. This is entirely consumer choice driven, entirely.
Why would someone proudly glout about that? Like, you saw the OPs image right? It's one of the worst things a consumer can do for the climate. What a bizarro banner to fly.
Roos are culled mostly because they compete for pasture availability and water access for livestock, especially because we reduced their predators (again, to protect animal livestock).
It's certainly better to eat roo than cow, but a diet that doesn't include killing animals at all is objectively better.
The entire worlds cargo ships emit 3% of the planets GHG emissions.
Animal agriculture is 15-20%. It's equal to the ENTIRE transport sector (cars, trucks, boats, planes etc).
As a consumer you can't easily change your cargo ship usage, or cars or planes, but you can absolutely change your diet, literally today.
I did! And I grew up on a dairy farm in rural NZ.
Ah that's Abby down the bottom left! I was in the Dunedin Capping Show with her, she was recently on Conan - and Conan said they had to delete like, 15 minutes of A-Roll material because she was just so funny. Neat!
I mean, I suspect EVERY new food would benefit from decades of studies, and every scientist would say they want that. But we don't have decades to reduce meat intake.
And no, we're not growing ill fish, there's no way to do so. There are certain theoretical risks: (prion diseases? - cell cultures don't use brain or spinal tissue. Cancer from immortal cells? - regulators have already banned these cells. Bacteria in vats? - less risk than in live animal tissues. Bioaccumulation of unexpected compounds? - already regulated by standard FDA protocols. Antibiotic use? - only used initially).
Otherwise there is no suspected or known mechanistic risks to consuming cultured meat. But don't take my word for it, you're already vegan, you're already a true blue bloody legend. I appreciate your concern wholeheartedly ❤️
But meat eaters already eat parasite ridden, zoonotic disease filled puss bags for dinner, so I'm preparing my vitriol for them.
Unless there's a mechanistic reason to suspect harm, (all ingredients are biologically equivalent to animal counterparts), I doubt there'll be a mad rush from anyone but the meat industry to put out studies.
Sounds like the classic animal ag scaremongering around soy milk or Quorn.
Zagorath you're like my favourite enviro person on Aus Lemmy but the meat Zag, the MEAT. Meat is responsible for 20% of the planet's GHG emissions Zag, THE MEAT
4% of houses in the ACT use fireplaces for heating, and are responsible for 50% of PM2.5 pollution. I love fireplaces, but I'd never install one.
Heat pumps and induction ALL THE WAY BABYYY
Eating planet based obviously != Virtue signalling unless you publically mention it, so there's that issue solved for you.
But what a lazy and incurious way to live, "I will continue perpetuation moral atrocities while contributing to the destruction of the planet unless daddy government tells me to stop".
Damn and they call vegans "pussies".