Is this the vegan utopia we’ve been dreading? You don’t win friends with salad

  • Mane25
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    11 months ago

    Misleading headline right? if one person stopped eating meat it would clearly not be like taking 8 million cars off the road, if everyone on earth stopped eating meat then 8 million cars would be a drop in the ocean. So… the headline means what even you want it to mean.

    • Vegoon@feddit.de
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      11 months ago

      One line under the headline:

      “Having big U.K. meat-eaters cut some of it out of their diet would be like taking 8 million cars off the road,”

      Here is the serious headline:

      https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aba7357

      Global food system emissions could preclude achieving the 1.5° and 2°C climate change targets

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        11 months ago

        I was complaining about the headline itself, I understand the content.

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      11 months ago

      Exactly. Getting billions of people to stop eating meat is surely going to be harder than getting 8 million cars off the road.

      • Mane25
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        11 months ago

        Exactly

        That’s really not my point. Climate change is a serious matter and needs to be treated better than by cheap misleading headlines like this.

      • Rokk@lemmy.world
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        11 months ago

        Article is just focused on the UK. So is more like getting 40million people to reduce their meat consumption (not stop) vs getting 8million UK cars off the road.

      • YungOnions@lemm.ee
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        11 months ago

        They’re not saying people should stop eating meat entirely, they’re saying people should eat less i.e. swapping a burger with a bean casarole once a week or something. This is not a binary all-or-nothing situation. Every little helps, as they say.

      • snacksOP
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        11 months ago

        i like driving cars as well. its a nightmare