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

Maybe I’m being too pessimistic, but feels like this is yet another study to add to the mountain of evidence that people will ignore because they’ve deemed the taste of meat worth an impending global calamity. When will the average persons tipping point be? When oceanfront property is available in Tennessee?

When will the average persons tipping point be?

When its too expensive to buy meat. Its not like this is new either. Here’s meat consumption over the last 100 years in the USA:

It tracks decently with the rise in GDP in the USA:

If you could graph sentient creatures’ collective agony I’m sure that would line up pretty well too

I hope things get better

This is a very sobering read: vox.com/…/farmed-animals-animal-welfare-human-pro…

Endless nightmare indeed

Why the suffering of animals can outweigh progress among humans

Add in the extreme suffering of tens of billions of farmed animals, and suddenly the world looks like a much darker place.

Vox