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Interesting to note that the study has been funded by the Rockefeller foundation. Eating less meat is one piece of the decarbonization puzzle but I feel that the language of this article and the study implies that we need to focus mostly on this and turn a blind eye to the other ways we’re feeding into climate change.

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You do realize the younger Rockefeller died like 70 years ago, right? That’s not the discrediting factor you think it is.

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I keep drifting back and forth between whole food plant based and vegetarian for about the past 13 years. I got no beef with meat eaters but I couldn’t imagine putting that into my mouth and the process of masticating it. Although on St Patrick’s Day looking at the corned beef sandwiches took me back in time for a brief moment.

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Ya know what would also limit it: Actually stopping like the top 5 companies causing like 60% of all pollution.

Just stop doing carbon credits because it’s a literal scam and just shut down any factory that pollutes more than an allowed amount until they get it under control.

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These companies are producing products you consume. What would really limit the emissions is reducing the human population to under 1B worldwide.

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That seems to put the carbon produced on the buyer of a product, not the company that produced the item. It mentions electricity as one and its not like you choose how your electricity is generated. Others being land use and food production which again you can’t control because large corporations do that, not individuals.

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If there were no buyers, there would be no producers. It is always on buyers.

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You heard him, @FluffyPotato@lemm.ee, it’s been debunked somewhere 🤣

No, it literally hasn’t.

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That article doesn’t back up your claim at all. It talks about an industry.

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/jul/22/instagram-posts/no-100-corporations-do-not-produce-70-total-greenh/

Also, GHG metrics by volume distort the picture when CO2, by volume, is like 25x less potent than methane

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I guess I’ve been a flexitarian since 2016ish. I have a few vegetarian days a week for environmental reasons.

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My first goal was to preferably have 2 meaty days a week and leave the rest meat free. After about three years I got to the point where I realised I hadn’t eaten meat in a while. I simply forgot to.

Now I just eat meat when I visit friends and family, or to keep my iron levels in check. It’s surprisingly doable.

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Yeah if you’re flexible (I get it now) you can totally get free meat on the regular. Plus my dad goes on Costco runs and just gives me spare meat. I haven’t really had to buy any in a while and like you don’t really notice when I don’t have any for weeks. The real thing for me is the odd hotdog or whatever craving, that’s when I actively seek it out.

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