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It seems that the biggest impact you can have with a diet change is to just stop eating beef.
Beef is only part of the problem, it's rather bad but all animal products are super high emitters
If we are concerned about the ethical side of things, swapping to other meats increases the number of animals slaughtered due to lower slaughter weights
Yeah, but talking about beef is more about it being a good first step for people to take. Removing one thing from your diet that can easily be replaced, makes it easier for people to start their journey.
Also, ethics is weird to bring and discuss in this issue, because... "What's worse"?
or
It's all a criminal tragedy. I don't think it makes sense to compare them, comparison will never make sense, it's all arbitrary.
What is not arbitrary, are the methods to wean people off of the habits that feed those industries, and the methods to reduce those industries' political power.
I am doubtful advocating for switching one type of meat for another types of meat will lead towards people reducing their meat consumption in the end. I see it brought up way more often as an excuse to not reduce meat consumption
This is anecdotal of course, but that was absolutely my journey.
I went from a meat heavy diet to not eating meat the majority of the days, and still trying to gradually lower it further.
For some people (like me) the barrier to lowering their meat consumption has more to do with having to learn a whole new paradigm of cooking, than being super invested in meat itself.
In case like mine it really helps to do the changes little steps at a time, where you make just one relatively small change at a time, learn how to cook with that change in mind, and then move onto the next relatively small change. It allows me some time to learn to cook with the new ingredients/new allocation of ingredients, and make food I actually want to eat in the long run, so it becomes way easier to keep it up.
I agree, I’m Autistic and had an eating disorder as a teenager. It takes a lot for me to leave my safe foods behind. Not because I don’t sincerely care about ethics and the environment but I also need to be alive and healthy.
And then I met my awesome partner who hates meat and we started cooking and experimenting together. It hasn’t been over night but just one meal at a time I’ve totally changed my eating habits!
[EDITED: my partner hates meat, he doesn’t hate me— as far as I know.]
By the way, same. Just getting familiar with the fact I had options, went a long way.
A lot of dietary choices are just inertia and fear of change. 🤷♀️
I was commenting strictly based on the charts in the article. Beef seems to be the worse, by far.
Just stop eating meat in general - it's absurdly ridiculous middle man between us and our energy source. It's purely a cultural relic yet people still pretend it's not.
Swap not just beef, but any meat for pulses and you've achieved a lot for yourself and the rest of the world.
And it doesn't have to be a "100%of the time" situation; each time you do the swap is good.
Stop eating steak, you mean. Part of that high number is that there's only so many steaks on a steer. I mean, beef is still bad but it's exaggerated in the chart.
this is just warmed over poore-nemecek 2018. it's not new, and it's not good science.