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  • Every time you suggest to meat eaters to eat less meat, they become violent.

    Even if you suggest them cutting their 14 meat meals per week down to maybe 12 meat meals (skip one day), they flip their shit.

    So ya, good luck suggesting to anyone to eat 30% less.

    • It's meat wiring. I don't know what it is actually called, but that's what I call it.

      I used to be a meat eater- nary a meal was made that didn't have meat as a main and the rest of the meal built around that.I would say that I didn't understand vegetarians- we need meat, we evolved to eat it. Then meat started getting expensive. Then meat started losing its quality. Then meat (especially chicken) started having a rubber texture to it and was like $15 a pound and I had enough and went pescatarian/vegetarian. It was hard at first, but we really couldn't afford meat anymore so we made it work.

      After a while I noticed that the smell of meat is absolutely nauseating. The idea of meat is sickening and I am dropping eating fish now in favour of full on vegetarianism.

      As I went through a meat "detox" phase ( I know it's not a detox but I don't know how else to put it) my brain changed how it felt about meat while I wasn't even paying attention. I was focusing on finding new, enjoyable veggie meals and my brain was working away purging all the want for meats.

      Either they've convinced themselves they can't eat less/no meat, or they simply do not care to.

      • That's interesting!

        I am allergic to most meat, and the few types I can still eat I don't like to cook myself, because meat is something you need to make sure is cooked properly to be safe. So I end up rarely having it, and honestly, my life is no different. The rare times I do have it, it's great, I enjoy ribs, bacon, etc, but it's nothing I would get angry and defensive over.

        I buy the beyond meat sometimes, and it's delicious as hell. I go to vegan restaurants, as I can guarantee my deathly allergy is not going to pop up there, and it's bomb ass food (usually. I find that some vegan places are -3/10, but others are 11/10 and their "meat" tastes 100% authentic and real, it's something you need to discover.).

    • I had good friends to ply me with cheese and avocado. I still like meat but can eat it less frequently and with smaller portions.

      But one of my dark secrets is patience. In the 70s, mom tried to quit red meat cold-turkey and didn't last one menstrual cycle, and I learned it's consistent among most women, that they are one period away from running down an elk in the woods in bloodlust.

      So I'm only ever a week at most before someone nearby goes STEAK! TODAY! and we're feasting once again on the fresh, sautéd flesh of dead animals.

      I have high hopes for cultured meat (lab-grown chicken is on the verge of hitting the restaurant supply market) which will serve the cruelty factor. Nutrition balancing is a whole 'nother matter.

  • It's so strange to see all the comments here defending CNN of all things.

    Imagine a game where you can buy sustainable, ethically sourced resources for $5 and unethically sourced resources for $3. The manual tells you it's nice of you to buy ethically sourced but there's no governmentally enforced consequences. Which ones are you going to buy as a consumer?

    Now worse, which ones are you going to buy as a downstream corp CEO? Your shareholders demand maximum profit and you are required to give them maximum profit. Justifying that you're "doing your part" for the environment gets you thrown out as CEO.

    At the end of this game, it's cheaper, and necessary, to buy the shit that kills us all.

    People unironically saying we're all to blame. No shit, the system is designed so we are all complicit. It takes authoritative intervention to prevent corps from using and selling unethical and unsustainable products. You could also tax it for things like carbon emissions

    • Exactly, corporation and individual behavior is predominantly emergent of the system. Theres some blame that can be passed on to the consumer or the corporation but only so much, it's not my fault I can't afford an electric car. It's not my fault installing solar panels on my house won't recoup the cost by the time I leave/sell.

      If you want people to eat less meat you need to make it worth people's while to eat less meat. You don't need to outlaw meat, you just need to make it less attractive from a financial perspective.

      If you want people to use less gas you don't need to outlaw gas cars you need to make it less attractive.

      You could write individual incentives and disincentives but a carbon tax is simple and hits at the crux of the problem. Remove beef, oil, gas, solar, wind, hydro subsidies and implement a carbon tax. Boom, meat alternatives are now cost comparable. Green energy is now handily cheaper than oil and gas. Theres also a sizable amount of conservatives who are for a carbon tax since it's a "free market" solution instead of picking winners and losers.

      • Yep. Taxing is the logical solution that fits within capitalism, and yet corporations are so vested in the machine they realize it's cheaper to spend money to lobby and advertise against it.

        It's a busted system that needed correcting decades ago, and here we are.

    • I heard with some things it's actually becoming cheaper to be green, as a result of engineering innovations leading to improved efficiency. Hopefully that trend continues.

      Especially when some geniuses finally work out viable nuclear fusion. Real Engineering had a video on a US company working on some next-level fusion reactors, that seem really close to being actually ready.

      Edit: of course, at the end of the day, the big oil companies won't go out quietly. So in addition to all that wholesome stuff, maybe we should partake in some classic literature, such as How to Blow Up a Pipeline.

      • The fact that clean energy is cheaper without subsidies makes the whole corrupt apparatus even more apparent. Oil and gas beg congress to end subsidies for cleaner solutions because they're having to compete which is a bad woke thing.

        Just look at how long it took coal to die. And now we have "cleaner" nat gas which turns out causes more acute warming than CO2. And rather than convert to a sustainable solution they double down and green wash.

        Removing pipelines would just let them raise prices and get richer but honestly if it curbs consumption it's a net positive.

  • Big brain time: Using a bike or my own feet to go everywhere 🧠🚴‍♂️👣

    • big brain time: getting run over on a stroad 🚲🚗💀

    • I'd use my ebike, but that shit will get stolen as soon as I leave it anywhere, and I cannot afford the $3,000 to replace it. So if I am actually going places, I have to drive my vehicle.

      Thanks, thieves!

  • For me, I only drive 1-2 days a week, tops.

    Yeah, we do the smart thermostat thing... but also...

    We put up solar panels. We generate enough of our own electricity to cover the house and feed back credits to the grid.

    Our electric bill is about $13 a month now to cover taxes and fees.

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