As negotiations get underway at COP28, we compiled a list of the leading research documenting the connection between meat and greenhouse gas emissions.
You don’t need to be an asshole either and yet you were anyway.
You feel my questions are nonsense. I feel that means you aren’t interested in debating the science.
You feel you know the truth and anyone that doesn’t accept your truth is beneath you. That will not convince anyone.
This isn’t science it’s an agenda. I am sorry you cannot understand the difference but the responses and downvotes I am receiving illustrate this clearly.
It’s just common sense that eating a plant is more efficient than growing many, many plants in order to feed an animal that is then eaten.
That said, I’m not willing to make that much of a personal sacrifice to push a boulder the size of Texas less than an inch. If we really want to make a difference, we need systemic change.
I’d absolutely support a 100% tax on meat. It’d be easier for us all to change if we did it together.
Sure, but that legislation is not on the table because the meat lobby wont even let people see what the inside of a slaughterhouse looks like and actually because of their lobbying power the exact opposite of what you are suggesting is true; instead of taxing meat, our tax dollars go to subsidize meat to keep it cheaper than plant based alternatives. We do actually need people to change individual habits, because the political machine has huge incentives not to change at all. Perhaps if the plant based lobby could become big enough to challenge the meat lobby we could make bigger changes, but that will require individuals making small changes in their diets first.
You don’t need to be an asshole either and yet you were anyway.
You feel my questions are nonsense. I feel that means you aren’t interested in debating the science.
You feel you know the truth and anyone that doesn’t accept your truth is beneath you. That will not convince anyone.
This isn’t science it’s an agenda. I am sorry you cannot understand the difference but the responses and downvotes I am receiving illustrate this clearly.
It’s just common sense that eating a plant is more efficient than growing many, many plants in order to feed an animal that is then eaten.
That said, I’m not willing to make that much of a personal sacrifice to push a boulder the size of Texas less than an inch. If we really want to make a difference, we need systemic change.
I’d absolutely support a 100% tax on meat. It’d be easier for us all to change if we did it together.
Sure, but that legislation is not on the table because the meat lobby wont even let people see what the inside of a slaughterhouse looks like and actually because of their lobbying power the exact opposite of what you are suggesting is true; instead of taxing meat, our tax dollars go to subsidize meat to keep it cheaper than plant based alternatives. We do actually need people to change individual habits, because the political machine has huge incentives not to change at all. Perhaps if the plant based lobby could become big enough to challenge the meat lobby we could make bigger changes, but that will require individuals making small changes in their diets first.
It’s not on the table because it’d be wildly unpopular, and anyone who proposed it would never get reelected.
Can’t say I know how to fix that, but that’s what I’d rather work on.
Again with appeals to emotion. What proof do you have that this is an agenda and not valid science apart from you don’t like the conclusions?