Plant-heavy ‘flexitarian’ diets could help limit global heating, study finds

ITT: peasants attacking each other instead of the people responsible for gestures broadly all of this

My partner and I are flexatarians, it's lovely. The only downside is that it's hard to not eat carb heavy, which is also an issue with vegetarianism and veganism. I feel like a spy among vegetarians.

I really don't eat a lot of meat. When I do it's usually chicken, sausage, or broth. The latter two are great for using bits of the animal that wouldn't normally be consumed alone.

You know what would really help? More so then cutting actual food intake?

How about halfing the number of golf courses? Stop using grass and let more natural plants for lawns, stop the use of private planes and also just kill or reduce the Cruise ship industry to a miniscule amount. Plus other shit rich people use that has a disproportionate huge carbon footprint. Find it funny that I never see the news --or rich, holier than thou morons-- pushing for this. Nah, they go after our food. Rich people do not care, they can eventually make beef the price of caviar per weight? Because fuck you and all of us. Why? Well they do not care. They can always pay. Easily.

For example: Bill Gates is the largest farm land owner in the USA now, he and his buddies and his rich clients will all get all the natural milk, beef, pork, chickens, lambs, veal they can eat. You? Eat lentils and maybe crickets or give his lab grown biomilq, to your kids or eat his lab meat, like a good and compliant serf. Don't think, just comply and consume. 'Cause I am sure he ain't touching the stuff himself or is his family. He is not going to be the long term guinea pig. I wouldn't either.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/03/13/biomilq-artificial-breast-milk

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bill-gates-backed-lab-grown-195311408.html

Carbon footprint of food production in the USA is 9% of total. Beef is about 3% of total. So 9 for both beef and crops.

Just the cruise ship industry, for example, is about 3.3% of the world's total carbon footprint. Let's kill that. Also private jet use. They can fly Business class, if they are not hypocrites.

I've been on this diet for 5 years, I call it the "only meat on sale" diet

I'm watching the new climate town video as I see this.

Glad the 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.

Is this actually news? Seems old to me, thanks OP though for bringing it up again.

Ya know what would also limit it: Actually stopping like the top 5 companies causing like 60% of all pollution.

Just stop doing carbon credits because it's a literal scam and just shut down any factory that pollutes more than an allowed amount until they get it under control.

Here's an idea, maybe the affluent and ultra rich can stop their decadent luxuries before us peasants give up the few pleasures in life left to us.

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?

Does "flexitarian" mean "eat less meat", basically?

I refuse to click the link because I hate the guardian.

You know what could also limit global heating? If the fucking wealthy stopped flying in their private jets and stopped cruising in their yachts and stopped buying their 3rd house. Focus on the solutions. Subsidize green energy, tax the oil companies, ban private jets, etc. You know, things that would have an actual impact.

Or we could eat like 3 billionaires.

i cut down my meat consumption to almost zero. maybe some beef pho on the weekend sometimes..... but i HATE the term flexitarian.... i refuse to call myself that...

I guess I'm essentially a flexitarian at this point, though I have never labelled myself as such. I tend to opt for non-meat options but am nowhere near vegan as I only learned after my daughter started dating one. What an incredible minefield it is! You have to sit around and analyze absolutely everything. Like can you believe pepsi is vegan but not diet pepsi?!? But diet coke is. I don't know about coke zero and am frankly afraid to ask…

For me being flexible help ramp down my consumption of meat. Each day without was a win. These days it's very rare that I eat any meat. It's become boring compared to the fun of a meatless diet.

I guess I've been a flexitarian since 2016ish. I have a few vegetarian days a week for environmental reasons.

I keep drifting back and forth between whole food plant based and vegetarian for about the past 13 years. I got no beef with meat eaters but I couldn't imagine putting that into my mouth and the process of masticating it. Although on St Patrick's Day looking at the corned beef sandwiches took me back in time for a brief moment.

I think there are better ways to reduce environmental damage.

Still, not eating meat every day is good for every human.

I hate animals, that's why I'm a vegetarian.

Interesting to note that the study has been funded by the Rockefeller foundation. Eating less meat is one piece of the decarbonization puzzle but I feel that the language of this article and the study implies that we need to focus mostly on this and turn a blind eye to the other ways we're feeding into climate change.

Are we doing this again?

The are 100 companies are responsible for 70% of global emissions. States can test nuclear weapons in the Pacific Ocean; nah eat a salad for lunch.

100 companies are responsible for over 70% of global warming.

But sure, blame the mother who buys ground chuck for her kids.

https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2017/jul/10/100-fossil-fuel-companies-investors-responsible-71-global-emissions-cdp-study-climate-change

I keep proposing the adoption of personal carbon credits, it would not be difficult to implement.

US Army: ** is biggest CO2 polluter in the world **

Media: "You should eat more vegetables to save the planet"

Even funnier to me are vegans that argue with people about how animals are killed and how bad it is for environment to eat meat. While the military kills millions of innocent people for oil and burns a record amount of fossil fuels in the process.

Yeah, somehow I don't think we are focusing on the right problems.

All this pussy shit about changing our entire eating schedule to reduce emissions by .01% is fucking dumb. The main problem is western habits and our dumb intake of everything! If the entirety of the US and EU disappeared overnight then emissions would drop by more than 75% even though the West doesn't even make up 10% of the world population.