What if everyone in this sub went vegan? Do you think we could make a realistic impact?

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1. I wonder if that would be a larger or smaller impact than giving up all elective use of digital devices?

2. I doubt there’s really 250k people on the sub but if there were that’s less than .1% of the US population (I know a lot of us aren’t in the US, just using the main emitting country as comparison).

   So probably not that big of a difference, but it would still be a good thing.

3. Prices of beef will make some people involuntarily cut back at least.

4. No. And going Vegan is not the solution.

5. I think the best plan would be to *introduce* vegan meals at your own dinner table. Maybe start with just one a week! It’s so easy.

   If I can switch, then you can, too.

   My first all vegan meal was Toasted Taco Chips with fresh, Homemade Pico de Gallo, and Guacamole! So good, and so filling!

   Next was Hummus, Warmed Pitas, Olives, and Dolmadas (stuffed grape leaves – canned, made in Greece), delightful!

   Greek Salad, a huge one, filled with cukes and red cabbage, olives, radishes, etc! (Feta optional).

   Falafels with Greek Cucumber (and yogurt) White sauce in pitas with veggies was so great, too!

   Now I am eating a Thai mango salad, last night I made Tom Ka Gai, a week ago I made a Vegan Lemongrass soup, night before last I had vegan Hot and Sour soup and for lunch I love a good Arugula salad.

   Breakfast has incorporated eggs – but it’s a Japanese egg and rice “omelet” with green onions and bean sprouts. Delectable!

   My almost all vegan lifestyle is amazing- my fridge is a freaking garden!

   When I want sweets, fruit and dates, raisins, and snacking on nuts really rounds things out.

   Variety is the spice of life! My next foray will be a really wholesome lentil soup! You can’t go wrong with experimenting. It’s delicious. Try it!

   The more you share these tasty meals, the more your friends and family will ask for them. Spread the word!

6. try creating delicious vegan dishes. start getting your friends and co-workers into them. create culture and the rest will follow.

7. I just wish humans appreciated meat instead. We don’t need fast food restaurants on every block. We don’t need meat in every meal. Humans shouldn’t stop eating meat, but the balance is gone. We are just disrespecting nature and it’s gonna come back to bite us hard

8. Any positive impact is better than none.

9. Just eating less meat in general would be a start. People are so obsessed with having meat with all major meals – it’s ridiculous. If everyone cut down the meat they were eating by half by having more regular vegetarian meals there would be an impact. But people are lazy I guess. Or indifferent.

10. I’m not a strict vegan. If someone like friends or family makes sth non vegan I still eat it because I like the gesture of sharing something and I don’t want to press my opinion onto them. I buy no animal products for myself except when my girlfriend wants to eat Schnitzel etc 😀 in my opinion every reduction in CO2 counts.

11. Nope

12. No, because even if there were millions of us the meat industry would ramp up marketing efforts to increase demand in other sectors/lobby the various governments for subsidies to avoid scaling back operations/maybve cull animals and claim it as losses on tax and then sell the land to grow biofuels etc. Capitalism doesn’t respond to demand, it manufactures it.

    However, that wouldn’t mean it’s a bad thing to do. It would likely mean all of us lead healthier and more ethical lives and promote community wellbeing.

13. What if everyone in this sub stopped driving and taking flights.

14. It would make a material difference if only because of the change in empathy toward other animals. Who knows? If enough people cared about animal suffering, people might start to care about the suffering of other people. Crazy high hope, but there you are.

15. Not when 76% of all global pollution responsible for global warming is done by corporations and industries.
    Eating less protein would help, a tiny bit, but it would be a pebble arguing with an avalanche.

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