12% of Americans eat half the nation's beef

Re:12% of Americans eat half the nation's beef by DoingIsLearning on Friday September 01, 2023 @04:58AM (#37348362)

Most people that care about environment, animal cruelty, and ethics are already small consumers of meat anyway. I would hazard guess also that any market reduction in Beef consumption in the West would be absorbed by Asian Markets, producers would not be producing less.

Actions like:

- Reducing/eliminating car usage

- Reducing residential heating/cooling

Are something individuals control and both would objectively have a much much greater GHG emissions impact. However they are not as popular in public discourse.

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Re:12% of Americans eat half the nation's beef by Ekaros on Friday September 01, 2023 @05:50AM (#37348694)

Looking at some documentaries about living conditions in very dense places proves that humans could survive in much smaller housing. You could massively increase density of housing and people would still stay alive.

But for some reason this is never suggested as solution before stopping eating meat...

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Re:12% of Americans eat half the nation's beef by jebarker on Friday September 01, 2023 @08:05AM (#37349693)

> Most people that care about environment, animal cruelty, and ethics are already small consumers of meat anyway.

Based on what I see for sale in grocery stores and on restaurant menus a huge amount of meat is consumed in the US. I have a hard time believing it's all being consumed by people that don't care about the environment, animal cruelty and ethics. I think/hope that most people care about those things but just feel they are powerless to do anything about them or maybe aren't aware how bad some situations are, e.g. animal welfare in the meat industry.

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