3d ago

People who eat beef don't give a shit about climate change

64 comments

People who fly in planes...
People who drive cars...
People who work for corporations...
People who eat imported off-season fruits and vegetables...
People who have children...
There are thousands of personal choices everyone could make to make the world a better place, and none of them will be effective on their own. We're all thoroughly fucked because the rich control the world and they think they will be able to ride out the collapse on their private islands and gated farms. Nothing you and I can do will stop the apocalypse, so stop being judgemental about choices other people make, and just enjoy the ride.
- I agree with you but you are also undermining direct action.
  People should be cutting all of that shit where ever possible
  Obviously life is life but drinking water out of plastic bottles when 95% of US has safe tap water is peak braindead consumerism
  
  choosing to shop in a different aisle in the grocery store is not direct action
- You can’t do all the good the world needs but the world needs all the good you can do.

I used to think like you. But then I released that you aren't gong to successfully convince billions of people to fix climate change through personal choices and carbon footprint efficiency.
Collective action to change government policy to make climate pollution uneconomical is how it changes.
Maybe that policy makes meat a luxury commodity and you get what you want, but human will is too weak to assume that people will stop eating meat out of choice.
The concept of our personal carbon footprint was one of BPs most successful ever marketing campaigns to avoid their accountability.

Jfc the vegan extremism in tech shows so hard on Lemmy it makes me both embarrassed to be in tech, and on Lemmy.
Fuck off. Feeling guilt (or worse yet, telling others to feel guilty) for eating beef when there exist billionaires with private jets is beyond absurd. Especially when we consider food availability, cost efficacy of feeding the populations...
Get your head out of your asshole.
You're no better than the Christofascists telling 'the gays they'll go to hell,' ramming ideology down peoples throats by way of guilt and shame. Exact same ideological posturing. Its abhorrant; it's pathetic.
- I don't think it's irrational to be critical of decisions just because there are worse evils. Whataboutisms don't solve anything, because you basically invalidate any argument with "but rich people have private jets".
  You can have more of a bearing on your fellow man than you do on corporate untouchables, so if you want to see change, start with the small stuff.
  
  Do you have a moment to discuss our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ?
  🙄
  
  No. That is just rampant stupidity. That is the same as a fat person celebrating eating a salad for lunch while still planning on gorging themselves on chocolate for dinner.
  Blaming individual poor person choices IS ALWAYS WRONG in a world with billionares. PERIOD. This is fucking brainless in-fighting because you are too stupid to understand the sheer scale of the world or the rich's impact on it. Genuinely, a pathetic attitude to have and especially to defend.

Or animal wellbeing.
- Climate change is animal well-being, just on a global scale.
- I see this line on internet a lot: animal farmers don't care about the welfare of their animals.
  I know too many beef farmers to think that.

I agree and I'm not even vegan. Pork and poultry are both a lot less bad for the environment, and afaik it's not at all hard to avoid beef in terms of cost and availability

Lol... I doubt that opinion is that unpopular but you can try the same set up with people who
Who fly for tourism Drinking bottled water at home Drive SUV Live in a large houses without sufficient head count
That ought to get people properly triggered. Beef is a low hanging fruit and even most beef eaters know this. Just eat less of it.

agriculture is also contributing to human accelerated climate change, jsyk.
- True. Let's try to reduce agriculture too. Let's see what most of the farmed food is used for. Oh. It's used to feed cows for beef.
  
  yeah that’s a fair assessment.
- Whatabout
  
  yup, i guess. when someone makes a dumb blanket statement like that i feel it necessary.
  
  No, citing a different, DIRECT CAUSE is NOT whataboutism. It's pointing out your pathetic ability to understand how different things at large scale add up.
  It is only your failure when someone points out a more significant thing and you then deny it. You're denying reality at that point. Pathetic ignorance from you will not save any of us.

It's not so binary, so I disagree with the premise. Ofc I upvoted it. 👍

I eat beef and care deeply about a sustainable biosphere. The future depends on Forages. https://youtu.be/bDnZ-oNjatY
Top Soil depletion should also be very scary to people, its quickly running out via current mono-cropping industrial farming. The only way to restore top soil is via ruminants
- Oh my, if you actually care then wait until you hear about beef farming in the Amazon rain forest.
  https://www.farmsanctuary.org/news-stories/amazon-deforestation-beef-industry/
  
  Now your moving the goal posts.
  Your original post was "There exist no people who eat beef and care about the environment". This is clearly wrong, and I disagree.
  Now you want to argue "There exists at least one practice in cattle farming that isn't a net positive for the environment" - Factory framing of both cattle, and mono-cropping, is bad for the environment - I agree.

Thanks for not eating beef then! You’re saving the planet. It’s a bit cooler outside today, the effects of your sacrifice are already noticeable. What would we do without people like … oh wait, gotta go, my steak‘s almost done.

You can have different degrees of giving a shit, though. Like you can give some shit, just not enough to quit beef.

Like a decade ago, I got to see Paul Hawken speak. His organization reviews the science to determine which methods are most impactful for reducing climate change. Here's their list: https://drawdown.org/solutions/table-of-solutions. The idea really stuck with me - and I was surprised by the impact of some activities.
- Is eating the rich at the top?
  
  Yes, but sadly not vegan.

Judging from the comments, this is truly an unpopular opinion. I wonder why it's got so many downvotes ... It is what it says on the tin.
- It's low effort rage bait
  
  One could argue the kinds of posts perfect for this community are all rage bait.

You ain't wrong 😒

I don't give a shit about climate change, but rarely eat meat at all. How is that even possible?
- Through the power of (A=>B) not implying (B=>A)

People care only enough to criticise corporations, no personal accountability
- The carbon footprint is a creation of BP’s marketing wing.
  Personal accountability is important, but don’t let it distract you from the fact that corporations have worked for decades to ensure their profitability at our communal expense.
- Direct action is better framing imho

Your downvotes prove my point, let's watch it unfold.
- Nah you’re just a kid with a “hot take” we’ve all seen beaten into the ground before.
- I upvoted you so now you're debunked.

64 comments