• BigAssFan@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Just go eat plant-based all together, so we won’t have these problems that endanger the existence of life on our planet. Including humans.

    • Venat0r@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      It’s so simple: almost as simple as stop burning oil and using plastic packaging and invading other countries and using slave labour…

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      6 months ago

      Thing is, life will find a way to survive despite our best efforts. We’ve seen mass extinctions before. Whether the human species survives is another matter.

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        6 months ago

        We’ve made our bed, on that I agree, but I cant help but feel that it would be nice if we didn’t take everything else down with us.

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      6 months ago

      That won’t stop all the other people eating animal products. You can’t solve systemic problems with individual action.

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        6 months ago

        It won’t, but at least you’re not part of the problem anymore. You might inspire other people to. And every person who goes plantbased makes it more politically viable to enact policies to encourage plant based over the most destructive other foods. Try to avoid discouraging people who try to do the right thing, help them make a bigger impact instead.

      • bAZtARd@feddit.de
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        6 months ago

        This. How can a vegan meat alternative cost more than real meat. I’d buy it immediately but as a consumer I don’t want to be screwed over.

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          6 months ago

          Eating plants isn’t more expensive than eating meat, just eating plant-based attempts at mimicking meat.

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          6 months ago

          In the EU the answer would be that we’re subsidising cattle farmers for enormous amounts of money

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          6 months ago

          Some of it is probably limited scale.

          I think a more-interesting metric than price in store is what their marginal cost of production is relative to the marginal cost of production of real meat. That’ll cut out fixed costs like R&D that’ll be more-prominent at limited scale.