Red meat has a huge carbon footprint because cattle requires a large amount of land and water.
https://sph.tulane.edu/climate-and-food-environmental-impact-beef-consumption
Demand for steaks and burgers is the primary driver of Deforestation:
https://e360.yale.edu/features/marcel-gomes-interview
If you don’t have a car and rarely eat red meat, you are doing GREAT 🙌🙌 🙌
Sure, you can drink tap water instead of plastic water. You can switch to Tea. You can travel by train. You can use Linux instead of Windows AI’s crap. Those are great ideas. But, don’t drive yourself crazy. If you are only an ordinary citizen, remember that perfect is the enemy of good.
Let me stop eating meat and cheese so that regime whores and their owners can fly on their private jet.
I don’t even disagree with the premise tbh. I reduced the intake due to mostly health concerns but shilling this as direct action to the peasants is tone deaf at best.
60% of the us plebs are living hand to mouth. Their priorities are gonna be in that. Beef prices are outrageous, they should be doing some basic substitutions but telling an American pleb to cut back on beef, you might as well called his mum a whore lol
So if economics ain’t gonna change their idiot consumption habits I highly doubt the “climate” will