Red meat has a huge carbon footprint because cattle requires a large amount of land and water.

https://sph.tulane.edu/climate-and-food-environmental-impact-beef-consumption

Demand for steaks and burgers is the primary driver of Deforestation:

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2022-beef-industry-fueling-amazon-rainforest-destruction-deforestation/

https://e360.yale.edu/features/marcel-gomes-interview

https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2023-06-02/almost-a-billion-trees-felled-to-feed-appetite-for-brazilian-beef

If you don’t have a car and rarely eat red meat, you are doing GREAT 🙌🙌 🙌

Sure, you can drink tap water instead of plastic water. You can switch to Tea. You can travel by train. You can use Linux instead of Windows AI’s crap. Those are great ideas. But, don’t drive yourself crazy. If you are only an ordinary citizen, remember that perfect is the enemy of good.

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    I’m no vegetarian at all but I really enjoy vegeterian food. I get some vegeterian people visibily upset that I’m eating “their” food when they know I usually eat meat.

    It’s like “either you’re all in with us, or you gtfo”.

    That being said, we’re never gonna convince people to try add some vegeterian meals until they become actually affordable. Cooking tasty and filling vegetarian food is difficult and time-consuming, and vegetarian restaurants are just fucking ridiculously expensive.

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      I get some vegeterian people visibily upset that I’m eating “their” food when they know I usually eat meat.

      Unless you’re at a place where you’re literally taking physical food, leaving them none, that’s just moronic

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      It really depends on where you live. How are vegetables more expensive than meat? I eat meat sparsely because it costs a lot and is annoying to prepare.

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        How are vegetables more expensive than meat

        Yeah don’t ask me, it’s ridiculous. It’s obviously not about the ingredient costs, it’s all about the fact that the restaurants are imposing grandiose margins because it’s just trendy I guess.

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        there are definitely places (hello) where anything more fancy than potatoes and peas costs more than (cheap) meat, looking at the veggie and fruit section of a swedish grocery store is depressing