• themeatbridge@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    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.

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      2 hours ago

      Beef farming has a massive direct impact on the environment, with rainforest being cleared to make way for cattle. It’s so bad that you don’t even have to give it up to make a real difference - just eat less of it. Eat a different meat instead, which has less of an impact.

      Of all the things you can do to help mitigate climate change, reducing the amount of beef you eat is probably the easiest, healthiest and cheapest thing you can do. The fact that people don’t makes the OP’s point.

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      6 days ago

      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