When I was in elementary school, the cafeteria switched to disposable plastic trays because the paper ones hurt trees. Stupid, I know… but are today’s initiatives any better?

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    I appreciate the affirmations but I’ve spent enough years on this planet, and attempted various diets enough times, to know what I like and do not like. I like meat. Many people like meat.

    My tastebuds are definitely more important than the almost zero impact I have explained such a diet has on the planet. You slipped up a bit there and fell into ethical concerns. Remember, this is a discussion about the impact meat has on the environment. Or is your argument not in fact about the environment at all?

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      1 year ago

      How is reducing farmland from 4 to 1 billion hectares zero impact?

      Animal agriculture is incredible inefficient and wasteful.

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        How is reducing farmland from 4 to 1 billion hectares zero impact?

        In the context of our discussion, it has minimal impact on climate change. The scope of harm is really limited to deforestation, but this has minimal impact on CO2 emissions as a proportion of all other output.