cindy

i follow someone who started a small rescue operation by convincing her local petsmart/petco store managers to willingly surrender sick and dying fish to her

Fig. 4: The extinction impacts of average daily per capita food consumption in the United States for consumption in 2021, the EAT–Lancet planetary health diet and hypothetical vegetarian and vegan diets.

The extinction impact of the beef industry is immense. Eating even a little bit multiplies a diet’s impact on endangered species.

insane chart from a new open access study comparing extinction impacts of different food production systems

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How the world’s taste for soya is eating Brazil’s Amazon Cultivation of the crop has made a few wealthy but at a huge cost to untouched forest as it spreads across vast areas of former wilderness

This story isn‘t about ‘the world‘s taste for soya‘, it‘s about the world‘s taste for meat. The vast majority of soya is grown for animal feed. Less than 10% is for direct human consumption. A shame it‘s not mentioned in the story.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

this is the same city council that needed to be legally forced to keep its promise to build usable bike lanes. this is what they do.

Infographic comparing land use to food output. Top bar: “Agricultural land.” A large orange block—“80 % Livestock: meat, dairy, textiles (38 million km²; 6 million km² cropland for feed + 32 million km² grazing)”—dominates, next to a small blue block—“16 % Crops for food (8 million km²).” Dashed lines point to two stacked boxes: Global calorie supply: orange 17 % from livestock vs. blue 83 % from plant-based food. Global protein supply: orange 38 % from meat & dairy vs. blue 62 % from plant-based food. Overall message: livestock occupies most farmland but yields a minority of the world’s calories and protein.

One way you could read this chart: Animal ag is so inefficient—and it comes at an unthinkable moral cost, AND it might start the next pandemic—that it would be the definition of lunacy to squander global carbon budgets to produce an ever-greater share of our food this way
www.vox.com/future-perfe...

you know more than anyone that beef only costs 1/3 of what it should thanks to gov’t subsidies. considering how horrible it is for animals, the climate, biodiversity, water pollution, land use, etc etc etc, you should be encouraging your constituents to buy plant based proteins. lentils still <$2/lb

"But it's a symbiotic, loving relationship!"

Girl if you couldn't ride your horse anymore you'd sell them. If they put up too much of a fuss while being trained to *not* throw you off their back, you'd also sell them. And not to be someone's beloved pet.

I didn't know we sold individuals we love.

I enjoy highlighting examples of people intentionally missing the point to avoid taking in unpleasant information.

Overwhelming sentiment in the comments: but food is necessary!

Yes, food is necessary. Food made of cattle and things that come from them is completely unnecessary.

food is necessary, but nobody needs to eat cows or anything that comes from them.

Are cheeseburgers the only food that exists? That's news to me.