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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://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2022-beef-industry-fueling-amazon-rainforest-destruction-deforestation/

https://e360.yale.edu/features/marcel-gomes-interview

https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2023-06-02/almost-a-billion-trees-felled-to-feed-appetite-for-brazilian-beef

If you don't have a car and rarely eat red meat, you are doing GREAT πŸ™ŒπŸ™Œ πŸ™Œ

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.

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[–] fuck_u_spez_in_particular@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Looks slightly off TBH, sources? Nuts being lowest, while Palm oil being quite high. Nuts are efficient, especially when considering caloric value, but I'm pretty sure something like a potato is better per kg. Palm oil AFAIK is a very efficient (most efficient vegetable) oil, might be that the destruction of highly carbon rich forest is factored in there maybe...

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

indonesian forests are f'uped from all those plantations. brazil/amazon is destroying the amazon for chinese consumption of cows. all these are jungle/tropical area which hold mega biodiversity, many plants are undiscovered, and such, and some are so rare(mycoheterotrophs, parasitic) that they can easily be wiped out.

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Being alive is bad for the environment.

[–] poplargrove@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Mmm, close to 700 comments. Have fun yall.

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 14 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Also not having kids. Strange how that one is left out.

[–] Penny7@lemmy.ca 14 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Considering this is about food that humans eat it makes sense that they don't include children on this chart.

Unless you're living in a candy house in the middle of the woods, then yeah, you have a point.

[–] AndyMFK@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 3 days ago

Well the post tile says "other than not having a car and voting" which are also not about food.

I get the linked article is about food, but OP worded the post in such a way that it's just factually incorrect

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[–] AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Rice and refried beans for me! (my cholesterol is high)

[–] AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net 4 points 3 days ago (8 children)

Just be sure to scrutinize the ingredients in those refried beans. A lot of them contain lard.

Also, don't forget to include as many dark leafy greens in those rice and beans, which will help a lot in lowering cholesterol.

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[–] JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world 16 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (6 children)

Roughly true, but you're eliding a very, very problematic activity into "travel": aviation.

Per kilometer, flying is pretty carbon intensive (about the same as driving - basically: the extra efficiency of being packed into a tin can is offset by exponentially higher wind resistance at high speed). The problem is that airplanes allow you to burn up massive distances really quickly.

A single transatlantic flight will blow a ~~2-ton~~1-ton hole in your personal carbon footprint. That's 10-20% of an average European's annual footprint - or ~~100%~~ a very large chunk of a sustainable annual footprint. For anyone who flies more than once a year (i.e. likely a bunch of people here), cutting down on flying is likely to be the single biggest thing you can do for the climate.

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[–] Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (8 children)

I thought it was overthrowing oppressive world governments and holding environmentally-damaging businesses accountable for their actions, hm.

When populations are starving to death in 2044, pat yourself on the back for not eating red meat.

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[–] nadram@lemmy.world 16 points 3 days ago (1 children)

True. Though maybe also activism until manufacturers are held accountable for their production methods and clean up costs. I do my share but I'm tired of being told it's on me. It's on corporate greed. Instead of spending on lobbying to avoid any changes to the status quo, they could spend much less coming up with different cleaner methods of production.

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[–] infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 4 points 3 days ago (6 children)
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