usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml to Green - An environmentalist community @lemmy.mlEnglish · edit-27 months agoSwitching to plant-based diets means cleaner air – and it could save more than 200,000 human lives around the worldtheconversation.comexternal-linkmessage-square25fedilinkarrow-up1134arrow-down111
arrow-up1123arrow-down1external-linkSwitching to plant-based diets means cleaner air – and it could save more than 200,000 human lives around the worldtheconversation.comusernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml to Green - An environmentalist community @lemmy.mlEnglish · edit-27 months agomessage-square25fedilink
minus-squarequeermunist she/her@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up7·7 months agoTwo animals farting methane is worse than one, but also, fewer energy transformations. Sun -> Plant -> Human vs Sun -> Plant -> Cow -> Human It’s just physics.
minus-squareover_clox@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down15·7 months agoSo if cows don’t exist, then earth happy? Equation solved, eat all the burgers…
minus-squarequeermunist she/her@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up17·edit-27 months agoWhen you buy flesh they just use that money to make more cows. When you stop buying flesh they stop making more cows. That’s just economics. Now say some more glib bullshit to show how deeply unserious you are.
minus-squareover_clox@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down9·edit-27 months agoBoth problems can be addressed at once. Eat all the bovine, and stop breeding bovine… The problem will never be solved just by avoiding meat. Eat all the meat!
minus-squareover_clox@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down13·7 months agoAlso, if you follow my instructions, eat all the meat, then cows go extinct, which fixes the majority of the bovine methane issue.
Two animals farting methane is worse than one, but also, fewer energy transformations.
Sun -> Plant -> Human
vs
Sun -> Plant -> Cow -> Human
It’s just physics.
So if cows don’t exist, then earth happy?
Equation solved, eat all the burgers…
When you buy flesh they just use that money to make more cows.
When you stop buying flesh they stop making more cows.
That’s just economics. Now say some more glib bullshit to show how deeply unserious you are.
Both problems can be addressed at once. Eat all the bovine, and stop breeding bovine…
The problem will never be solved just by avoiding meat. Eat all the meat!
Also, if you follow my instructions, eat all the meat, then cows go extinct, which fixes the majority of the bovine methane issue.