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

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years 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.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I dunno.... I do like eating a lot of meat....

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

i like driving cars as well. its a nightmare

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I like eating meat while driving cars.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

they should rename the M1 ‘drive n greggs’