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

Subsidies increase access, but they don’t create demand in and of themself

If something is significantly lowered in price, wouldn’t that affect demand? If not, why would it suddenly work differently?

You should also see how much of the EU budget directly goes to farming. That’s just direct subsidies, there’s also loads of indirect ones.