I barely ever eat beef since I live in a coastal area with productive waters where the seafood is cheaper, better, and fresher. But I do think the focus on individual contributions to climate change is somewhat misguided. We need to stop digging up carbon and lighting it on fire.
I’m not against individual efforts. I drive an electric car — well, a PHEV that’s got more electric range than I need for my daily life so I only need gas for road trips — and have solar panels and am very much an environmentalist. I get that every little bit counts. But shifting the blame to consumers rather than producers — especially oil/mining companies — seems like a distraction.
It’s like when oil companies promoted plastic recycling, which is a joke 90% of the time, to distract from plastic production. There’s definitely not a shortage of fresh water where I live but people in the southwestern US constantly get told to take shorter showers when the bulk of the water goes agriculture. (We obviously need food but there’s plenty of water-hungry cash crops grown in places where droughts are frequent.)
Probably a part of it. Working with the typical ages at which they are each killed, a cow killed for beef produces around 100kg meat per year, whereas a cow killed for milk produces both 300kg of milk solids per year and 25kg of meat per year.
Hope they update the survey yearly from now on. I put those two year points to a stupid sheets forecast and 80% mark of disgruntled people will pass around 2028 according to that.
Airbus also in my experience is a better time, when it comes to comfort. Obviously safety takes priority, but I'm just saying the experience is better as well.
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