im sure the number1 way is to stop oil production,
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So do it. We'd all love it if you went ahead and stopped all oil production. We're waiting.
But in the mean time, stop torturing vulnerable individuals.
its more about the rich blaming the poors. rather than the rich taking responsibilities
Can you do that?
Sure, but what if we could fight billionaires in a ring?
Those are not mutually exclusive
Nice! Let's do both!
AFAIK a low-emission diet is actually number two - transportation is still the number one individual source of climate related emissions.
That's also the one that skews the most toward richer people - rich people take the most flights, cruises and yachts which are the worst ways to travel for the environment.
In my country they are both 22% but either way, reducing your car trips doesn’t give you the right to kill innocent animals.
What about the guilty ones?
"It's coming right at us!"
You can EASILY reduce your animal exploitation to zero no matter your economic situation. You still have to move your body and goods around no matter how you change your lifestyle.
We can consider believing that only if we assume everyone is privileged enough to have constant access to vegan food. Which is a ridiculous assumption. Being vegan is great and I'm glad people choose to, but you must have a warped view of how others live if you think it's not just possible, but "EASY" to have that diet. Billions of people cannot even afford the luxury of food that isn't the cheapest and most processed food money can buy.
And this is not even addressing your "zero" assertion. Unless you carefully grow and harvest your own crops, all your meals ended up killing and hurting small animals that were attempting to live in a field where your meal was grown.
I can tell you are coming across some of these ideas for the first time, and you are having the exact same knee-jerk reactions that everyone does. You just filled at LEAST three separate tiles on a vegan bingo card.
You're going to pull the "I'm too poor to not murder" shit with me? I live on 14k CAD a year. If I can do it, you can fucking do it. In reality, plant food is the cheapest food you can get.
Ohhhhhh, suddenly, despite having the flesh of vulnerable individuals still stuck in your teeth, you care SOOO MUCH about the poor mousies and butterflies. But that's not what I said, is it? Those animals are not being exploited.
In addition to eliminating exploitation, of course I want to minimize the absolute harm I do, but that is a different subject. If you stopped and actually thought about it for a second, you would realize that the way to do that is to eat plants, because if you eat meat, an order of magnitude more plants have to be grown to feed those animals, and so you end up mulching up more mousies. So it's an ignorant argument. You've literally never had a serious thought about these subjects in your life.
Spare me your thought-terminating cliches. If you are not emotionally prepared to process these ideas, go cope somewhere else.
What an unrelatable privilege-assed human. People live in food deserts all over America, as only one example. You can pretend they don't all you want, but all you'll do is give people the impression that vegans are out of touch assholes. For the record, and to reiterate, I support veganism. Just not people like you who lie and dodge truth because you need to feel superior. You're absolutely working against what you claim to advocate for.
PS; username checks all the way out.
I also notice how you've totally dropped the transportation angle once it failed to serve as a distraction from the thoughts and feelings that you are unwilling to process.
You are having trouble with this because you are trying to avoid confronting your own needless cruelty and violence. Until you own up to that, you are going to continuously seek out new distractions and excuses, never seriously engaging with the core issues.
you’ve totally dropped the transportation angle
No I didn't drop anything. You've lost the thread.
you are trying to avoid confronting your own needless cruelty and violence
This is the kind of sanctimonious shit that guarantees many people who could choose veganism, never will. I noticed your addressed absolutely zero of the valid points I made. Kinda admitting I'm right to bring them up.
I hate this argument. I was vegan when I was living off $10 a week. I was vegan when I was in the homless center.
I cried my first night in that shelter. They provided dinner, it was cheap box mac n cheese, some meat I forget and broccoli, I started crying, a hormonal nursing mother, the cook noticed. He let me swap the meat and cheese for extra broccoli and there was always apples and oranges in a bowl for folks. Fridays, they let us bring in our own food and use the kitchen, once they set me up with food stamps, it was game on fridays for me.
I was vegan for my poorest years. Before being at the shelter, in them $10 a week days.. Not proud of it, but I stole zuchini from a farm stand once. took three of them, I was truly starving. One day later, I saw random cans of tomatoes on the sidewalk in front of a church, took those too. made a nice meal I hadnt had in a while.
I ate can veg and beans as meals. I ate plain ass noodles with salt, I ate weird veg mashes I got from the foodbank and just threw it all in a pan with some rice.
Desperation teaches you many things.
No I couldnt afford vegan products, vegan meat or cheeses, but anything marked vegan is going to have a jacked price. The entire produce section, and a lot of the tinned section, the whole pasta section, is all vegan without having the little V printed on it.
Learning to cook is the way.
You may hate the argument, and I get that too, but many people just don't have your level of knowledge. Many men I know for example, literally wouldn't even know how to operate a stovetop. I'm not even trying to make the point that it's the most common situation to not have a possible way to being vegan, I'm just trying to make the point that it is ludicrous to suggest that everyone can "EASILY" go fully vegan today. That makes so many assumptions that don't fit the lives of many people.
Everyone can learn to read.
Everyone can learn to cook. Some need guidance. I try to help folks where I am able in this, in my daily life. Help your homies learn to cook.
We get no where on our own.
Everyone can learn to read.
See, this is exactly my point. No, they absolutely cannot. Over half of adults in America are functionally illiterate. I'm close to someone who teaches middle schoolers to read who struggle, usually with a combination of horrible educational background, low income situations, intellectual disability, or hardship caused by having to flee their country of origin, for their own safety.
Even if we had universally offered free classes to teach reading and cooking (we don't, not even close), there still would be many people who wouldn't even be able to take advantage of them, for various reasons.
What I'm really arguing here is against the absolutist attitude. It's just not helpful and it sets you up mentally to be even more disappointed in people than you'd be without the attitude...
yes they can, with help.
with help
What the fuck is it, to each ones ability and each ones need or some shit.
Help. You, person here, should help.
I dislike absolutist attitudes too. Its just, just help.
I mean even that's not true. Probably 98% could learn these things. 2% is not zero. In reality though even if a much greater number of volunteer teachers existed, we'd still end up with an even more non-zero number.
this just seems like negative thinking, wrapped in realism, while I, an idealist, dream of hope.
Some folks cling to hope, some except reality as hopeless.
I lived in a world of realistic optimism where it was possible that maybe ya know, up to 10% might vote for Donald Trump. Like 35% of eligible voters chose him and most of them still would even after he's hurt them directly. And I started off "more negative" than you are now. There's being optimistic and then there's being mad at the world for not being perfect.
Yeah cause rice, beans and produce are the single most expensive foods in existence. I take out a mortgage every time I get hungry. 😂🙄
You may not be able to grasp the concept that many people live a long drive/walk from even a friggin grocery store but it's still their reality which you've chosen to refuse an ounce of understanding toward.
Food deserts existing is completely irrelevant to your price point argument. You're just jumping around to different cliches.
Are you truly trying to tell me that it's cheaper to eat fast food on the daily as opposed to getting shelf stable rice/beans available in bulk? My wife and I eat for a week cheaper than a one of us getting a meat based meal from any restaurant.
Food deserts existing is completely irrelevant to your price point argument
It's 100% exactly one of the situations I was referring to.
This is just pointless talking to you here. You've clearly made up your mind that not only is every non-vegan actively not choosing veganism, they do so even though their lives would be easier if they did.
Okay. Explain how.
I'm also still waiting to hear how veganism is more expensive?
Or are we done here? Because it seems like you would rather stamp your feet, insist your right and call names instead of supporting your argument.
Yeah you're clearly very open to being convinced that your incorrect characterization of what I said is true.
See previous comment. It was extremely clear.
I keep asking you to explain further, but all you respond with is insults. Why is that?

I keep telling you you are unreachable. If you were reachable you might get it
I keep telling you you are unreachable. If you were reachable you might get it
Dude you aren't even attempting to explain. I keep asking for more information, and you keep insisting it's immposible for me to be convinced.
Like, yeah... no shit that isn't very convincing. lol
But NoNvEgAnS ArE BaD is so fucking convincing. Veganism would absolutely be more popular if it weren't for dipshits like you
In the US, its transport, because people drive cars and sit in traffic so much.
The rest of the world its 2nd or 3rd behind power generation and food.
Has Woody Harrelson even gone vegan? Last I saw, he was promoting the astroturfed pseudo-regenerative cattle ranching stuff.
Anyway I can already hear the impending, "no ethical consumption under capitalism" nihilists on their way. To those who denigrate any lifestyle modifications as ways to try to make the world better: if individual change didn't matter, there wouldn't be a market for plant-based foods at all, and nor would there be Linux. If all you ever focus on is the bad stuff you wish would go away, then yeah all seems lost. But that's not the big picture. Good is created, and good grows. But for that to keep happening, it needs to be chosen and promoted.
Maybe try going on a bike ride while you're at it.
I think he's right. We should all change to a 100% Billionaire diet...
Norm Macdonald voice
As compared to the number two way:

says the guy with never a worry about food. the real number one way? ensuring there are no billionaires.
Working from home is probably the next best thing.
Also, changes in diet does not necessarily mean changing what you eat. A huge amount on gains are to be had, just changing where where your food comes from. Local small producers are the gold standard. Combine that with growing some of your own vegtibles.
Back in the 90s I calculated that the US could save the Amazon rainforest by cutting our meat consumption by 10% and legalizing hemp (not marijuana). I no longer have the math available but the gist of it was that a 10% decrease in beef cattle feed would cause a corresponding drop in demand for feed corn, and if that much cornfield land were converted to hemp (which would work agriculturally) and the hemp were used to make paper, demand to import pulp logs from SA would decrease enough to demotivate logging the rainforest - where most logs at the time were being harvested for pulp. As a side benefit, the paper would last a lot longer but wouldn't be more expensive.
Took me a lot of time and effort to do the research for that. Dunno if it's still valid in today's economy.
Not even close. Dealing with the excess personal ambitions of the wealthy would do far more.
The !climate@slrpnk.net mods disliked that as they were never ever serious about tackling climate change 🤪
Shameful.