if the industry continues to grow, the location of the farms doesn’t seem to matter.
if the industry continues to grow, the location of the farms doesn’t seem to matter.
if you buy less meat, the meat industry actually becomes smaller over time.
that has never happened.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/meat-production-tonnes?tab=chart&country=~OWID_WRL
I imagine asian markets dwarf America and europe
can you link any of them?
do you have some evidence for that?
In day to day life, veganism has the single highest impact
I don’t know how this can be quantified, but id love to see how you try.
I looked at it. it’s not compelling
you should give a trigger warning when you link gore
do you have a plan to make that happen?
More people are going vegan than ever before as 88 million have went vegan.
it doesn’t seem to be effective at reducing or even stopping the growth of the meat industry
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/meat-production-tonnes?tab=chart&country=~OWID_WRL
comparing slaves to animals is what slavers do.
I will not be kind to those who are animal abusers
most people feel the same way.
Mean consumption is on a downward trend
can you show me some evidence of this?
calling me names is neither an argument nor evidence.
I did watch that video. probably a dozen times. it gets posted often. I shouldn’t be expected to debunk an argument that isn’t made.
I rewatched* it after I made my comment though, and it does not establish what they claimed. it doesn’t cite sources**, and it’s primary thesis is “it’s complicated”
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* i actually listened to it. but just now, after i made this comment, i scrubbed it and i found:
** they do some pretty hard-to-see and also hard-to-research citation in the form of citing academic papers in the bottom right of the screen around the time they are making the claim. and let me tell you, poore-nemecek is the basis of the lca analysis (which i could have guessed), and that lca analysis is flat out bad science. it’s certainly not a compelling reason to be vegan.
I’m not watching your YouTube video. if you can’t articulate a compelling reason, just say so.
I find it hard to believe that it is the biggest impact a single person can have. can you enumerate the other strategies it is weighed against?
you also aren’t supporting your claims about affordability, health, nor ease with anything but anecdotal evidence.
I could be convinced meat production needs to be reduced, and consumption would necessarily follow, but haven’t you already tried reducing consumption? it hasn’t worked to reduce, or even stop the growth of production:
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/meat-production-tonnes?tab=chart&country=~OWID_WRL
your local decline can be explained by any number of factors, and there is not enough evidence to conclude it is due to you or your whole town reducing meat consumption.