Plant-heavy ‘flexitarian’ diets could help limit global heating, study finds

https://lemmy.world/post/13615809

Plant-heavy ‘flexitarian’ diets could help limit global heating, study finds - Lemmy.World

I’m watching the new climate town video as I see this.

Glad it media is still telling us it is our fault as consumers while industry and governments actively work against us.

Yes eating plants is better for the environment and your body. Yes I try to eat mostly plants and I encourage you all to try it, but Capitalism is what is killing us and eating a salad isnt going to fix it.

Actually, quite the opposite. As long as you buy beef, cattle will continue to be a major driver of climate change. Under capitalism, it only gets produced because you buy it
isn't it heavily subsidized? I appreciate that you're using a textbook definition of capitalism but that's not how anything actually works.
Worldwide? Not necessarily, no. Most of the growth in beef demand in particular is in developing nations. Subsidies increase access, but they don’t create demand in and of themself

In my country meat is heavily subsided and if was put to market at true price less people would buy it.

They don’t remove them because It would piss off a lot of business to remove the subsidies overnight and many would lose jobs. But I say fuck them, it’ll work out in the long run