La Trobe University research shows Australians would prefer to embrace many other green options to help the environment before giving up meat and becoming vegetarians.
A study shows Australians would rather take other actions to help the environment than give up meat.
Participants cite a lack of vegetarian options when dining out, despite Australia having more than ever, as a barrier to the diet.
Researchers hope the study will highlight reasons behind people's reluctance to reduce meat consumption.
Honestly I wouldn't consider this a drastic change to life considering how easy it is to do lmao. My best friend/roommate is vegan while I'm a meat eater. Wherenever she's home at dinner time I'll cook for both of and make sure it's something we can both eat so it's more often than not vegan meals. You know what's happened since? I've just gotten noticeably healthier lmao. I'll still eat meat on occasion (more often than not poultry), but if I never had it for the rest of my life I honestly wouldn't mind much.
This is such a bullshit response. There are plenty of vegetarian options when eating out in Australia. And the more vegetarians there are, the more options restaurants will offer.
City? Yeah, if you pay a fair whack or live near one of the buddhist or hindu country diaspora hubs. Out bush? Yeah, nah. There will be one menu item, maybe two if you include the garden salad as being a meal.
Yeah that's true. I'm a city dweller and spoilt for choice. But I reckon if more people were asking for it out bush, the restaurants would update their menus.
I guess it varies. There are vegetarian options at a lot of places, but I often find it's only one or two options.
It really depends on the venue of course. Some of my favourite places have tons of options, but most of my friends aren't interested in those. It also gets even harder when the few vegetarian options are often ruled out for you due to other dietary restrictions...
A study shows Australians would rather take other actions to help the environment than give up meat.
So exactly the same as polling on alternatives to the Voice. Australians want vague solutions to problems they pretend to care about, but when you propose actual solutions: crickets.
Lol lmao. Everyone who is like "I'd give up meat if only there were more options at restaurants" should immediately give it up except at restaurants where there are no meatless options in order to fulfill their own stated values.
Of course, my bet is it's just a rationalisation. Our culture sucks and people are always looking for some reason why doing the bare minimum is unreasonable.
Participants cite a lack of vegetarian options when dining out
Well it's not a religion. Eat meat if you don't find anything else on the menu. Avoid it when cooking yourself. But it's not about that, people are addicted to meat and don't want to reduce their consumption.
Australians love eating meat and say limited vegetarian options when dining out is a key barrier to changing their diet, despite more meat-free choices than ever, new research has found.
The report found respondents, who were aged between 18 and 84, believed reducing and eliminating meat intake were ineffective ways to address climate change.
"Although past research has shown that animal agriculture contributes significantly to greenhouse gas emissions, our participants believed reducing and eliminating meat intake to be some of the least effective actions against climate change," co-author and provisional psychologist from La Trobe University Ashley Rattenbury said.
Two thirds of the La Trobe University study participants said having limited options when eating out was a barrier to adopting a vegetarian diet.
The La Trobe research was compared to a similar study conducted in 2003 by Emma Lea and Anthony Worsley, from Deakin University, which asked hundreds of Australians for their beliefs about barriers and benefits to vegetarianism.
The La Trobe University study also asked participants about their perceptions of the effectiveness of stopping or reducing meat consumption, compared to how willing they would be to engage in other actions that benefited the environment.
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