Re:What fossil fuels are doing to our oceans
by sasvari on Thursday March 02, 2017 @05:58AM
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While I applaud your meat buying preferences, it would be an environmental disaster for every meat eater on earth to attempt to do the same.
I might not get the point, but why would it be a bigger environmental disaster?
Re:What fossil fuels are doing to our oceans
by martalist on Thursday March 02, 2017 @06:06AM
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Because we'd need significantly more land/pasture to feed livestock that way.
Re:What fossil fuels are doing to our oceans
by sasvari on Thursday March 02, 2017 @06:19AM
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in a 1:1 substitution case. but locally, sustainably (yeah, maybe not the right
word ... organically?) produced meat is more expensive, which should lead
people to eat less meat, but if they eat meat to consume meat produced
locally with a smaller environmental footprint (if that's the case, I'm not an
expert in that field).
maybe that's just wishful thinking though.
Re:What fossil fuels are doing to our oceans
by martalist on Thursday March 02, 2017 @08:09AM
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Alcohol is ridiculously expensive in Australia. We don't drink less of it.
If the cost of meat were a driving factor in reducing consumption, consider that it's maybe 4x less expensive (a guesstimate based on my own experience) to eat whole plant based proteins than meat.
It is inherently more efficient and sustainable to eat the plant proteins we grow than to feed them to animals. 1kg of meat also requires 100x the amount of water per kg of protein [1].
While I applaud your meat buying preferences, it would be an environmental disaster for every meat eater on earth to attempt to do the same.