• Genius@lemmy.zipBanned
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    1 month ago

    Okay but you can control your own actions. Don’t you want to be better than all the sheeple? Or do you want to be bad because they’re just as bad?

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      1 month ago

      It’s more that “meat free Monday” will do nothing whatsoever, the problem is pollution from large corporations

      • Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        1 month ago

        It will do something. The demand for meat will fall, the more people who don’t eat meat. Defeatism is not only unhelpful, it’s also wrong.

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        So you’re saying demand for meat will fall by exactly 0%? The local grocery store will have exactly the same number of people buying the same amount of meat?

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          Consumer demand does not, in fact, make a dent on emissions. Corporations buying from each other is what does.

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            Consumer demand never makes a dent on emissions? So if everyone in your city became a vegan overnight, the grocery store would keep on buying the same amount of meat and letting it rot on the shelves?

            Wow, I should start selling bridges to grocery store managers

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              One, that’s not a realistic scenario. Two, companies make more money by selling to other companies, not us. This whole thing of blaming the regular people for excess waste and pollution was a ploy by companies to get away with it.

              During the pandemic, even tho nobody was using their cars, the amount of pollution from fossil fuels didn’t change at all. It was statistically insignificant. That’s enough proof to me that blaming us for the sins of unregulated industries is stupid.

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      1 month ago

      I’m already vegetarian, so I’m controlling my actions just fine. I just also see how angry everyone gets when they find out that I don’t eat meat, despite it having basically no impact on them.