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People who eat beef don't give a shit about climate change (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/unpopularopinion@lemmy.world
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[–] [S] -2 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Oh my, if you actually care then wait until you hear about beef farming in the Amazon rain forest.

https://www.farmsanctuary.org/news-stories/amazon-deforestation-beef-industry/

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Now your moving the goal posts.

    Your original post was "There exist no people who eat beef and care about the environment". This is clearly wrong, and I disagree.

    Now you want to argue "There exists at least one practice in cattle farming that isn't a net positive for the environment" - Factory framing of both cattle, and mono-cropping, is bad for the environment - I agree.

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  • [–] [S] -3 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    There is no practice in cattle farming that is a net positive for the environment. Methane is a potent greenhouse gas, and cattle produce a fuck ton of it.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Ah, ruminants are part of the normal biocycle, they produce methane in a cyclic fashion and sequester it in top soil. They are not net producers of methane, they are nature itself. If you look at the entire biocycle the methane is just in movement.

    Without ruminants we wouldn't have top soil. I encourage you to watch Dr Ballerstedt's lecture i shared with you two posts ago.

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  • [–] [S] -4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    When you deforest an acre of the Amazon rain-forest to raise beef cattle it's not a part of the normal bio-cycle. You don't even know where your beef comes from when you eat it at a restaurant, do you? 🤡

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    Your moving the goalpost again.

    You don’t even know where your beef comes from when you eat it at a restaurant

    And you know that each bit of plants on your plate is locally sourced, not mono-cropped, using no pesticides, no industrial inputs, no imported fertilizers, and has never seen the inside of a sysco truck?

    Please, you just want to argue and calling me a clown demonstrates how reductive your thinking is.

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