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Sunshine (she/her) ( Sunshine@lemmy.ca )  to Climate@slrpnk.netEnglish · 2 years ago

Eating less meat ‘like taking 8m cars off road’

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Eating less meat ‘like taking 8m cars off road’

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Sunshine (she/her) ( Sunshine@lemmy.ca )  to Climate@slrpnk.netEnglish · 2 years ago
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A new Oxford University study pinpoints for the first time how high- and low-meat diets impact the planet.
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    How many cars off the road does a dead executive take?

    What about Taylor swift…

    I am all about eating less meat for various reasons but this some idiotic thesis.

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      Why not both?

      Are you implying that we should only do good things if they are the most good things in existence? Like, I shouldn’t have an electric car because planes exist? Please enlighten me.

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        This is BBC which speaks for big oil…

        Eat less meat but don’t be confused what BBC is doing here…

        yUoR CaRBON FoOTPriNt

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          So the problem is the hypocrisy of the news empire, not an idiotic thesis?

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