• cows_are_underrated@feddit.org
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    17 days ago

    I absolutely agree with you. Meat is something that has a big impact on the climate and this is something that we as the consumers actively can control. If society decides to buy less and instead higher quality meat the demand will go down and therefore the CO2 footprint. However, this is nothing that is possible without the government supporting this change.

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      17 days ago

      society decides to buy less and instead higher quality meat the demand will go down and therefore the CO2 footprint

      this isn’t causal

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        17 days ago

        I may have articulated myself badly. What I mean is the following: If I decide to instead eat e. G. 1kg of low quality meat every week I am responsible (by eating meat) for an amount x of CO2 emissions. If I now switch to only 500g of higher quality meat the amount of CO2 emissions goes down to about 1/2x(I know this isn’t exactly true, due to the lost efficiency, but for bigger reductions its absolutely true, that the amount if CO2 you emitted goes down).

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          16 days ago

          If I decide to instead eat e. G. 1kg of low quality meat every week I am responsible (by eating meat) for an amount x of CO2 emissions.

          I don’t think that’s true. those emissions happen regardless of whether you eat it. they happen regardless of whether you buy it.

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            16 days ago

            Source please.

            Your analysis undermines genuine science by disregarding the reduction in demand which reduces the supply and forming a data set with a sample of 1.