“Shoppers’ meat and dairy” is a strange way to describe the agriculture industry.
Comparing farming to oil is a silly comparison. We actually need meat as a species to thrive whereas we have alternatives to oil.
The early homo species were eating meat 2 million years ago and played a critical role in our evolution. The alternative is to go full vegan which is never going to give you the same quality proteins and fats at scale. Also vegan diets aren’t exactly environmentally friendly. Forests need to be chopped down and then the land pumped full of pesticides and other animal killers.
Oil on the other hand has lots of reasonable alternatives. Solar and wind supplemented by nuclear is more than a suitable alternative to oil.
You ever read an article and think, ‘Jesus I’m hungry for a good burger now’? Some reason that’s all these articles make me think of. Usually prefer chicken but I’m thinking about driving to the butchers to get a good meaty burger and frying it for my dinner
I wonder how the emotional state of the country would be if the shitpaper tabloids took a month off.
RTÉ too if they just stopped their news for a while, a mental holiday.
Ah yes let’s put an end to the world renowned quality that is Irish meat and dairy, and let’s instead import from a country with questionable levels of quality control
The most sustainable beef is still twice as resource hungry as the same calories in plant form.
I love the taste of meat. Lamb, venison, duck, beef, pork, chicken. You name it, I’ve converted it to poo. I eat meat or fish at 5-6 out of 7 dinners a week. But I’ve reduced the quantity at each meal.
I’ll never be vegetarian. But I don’t need the majority of calories to come from meat either.
Shes talking some slurry
They usually try to hide the fact that they’re just deflecting for fossil fuel companies so I appreciate the almost-honesty of this
> It has calculated that the top 20 beef and dairy firms headquartered in Europe between them are responsible for 244 million tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions annually.
> The companies report much lower figures because they only have to account for emissions from their production operations, termed scope 1 and 2 emissions, not the much greater emissions from the livestock they buy in from farmers, classified as scope 3.
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“Shoppers’ meat and dairy” is a strange way to describe the agriculture industry.
Comparing farming to oil is a silly comparison. We actually need meat as a species to thrive whereas we have alternatives to oil.
The early homo species were eating meat 2 million years ago and played a critical role in our evolution. The alternative is to go full vegan which is never going to give you the same quality proteins and fats at scale. Also vegan diets aren’t exactly environmentally friendly. Forests need to be chopped down and then the land pumped full of pesticides and other animal killers.
Oil on the other hand has lots of reasonable alternatives. Solar and wind supplemented by nuclear is more than a suitable alternative to oil.
It’s not the same at all, methane disappears after ten years while carbon from fossil fuels remains in the atmosphere for hundreds of years , so even even modest reductions in methane actually leads to global cooling https://open.spotify.com/episode/7sfD6OmBd8HIoHSue4NSv3?si=PQ7WAk2gQwy2GPbSV4lkeQ
You ever read an article and think, ‘Jesus I’m hungry for a good burger now’? Some reason that’s all these articles make me think of. Usually prefer chicken but I’m thinking about driving to the butchers to get a good meaty burger and frying it for my dinner
I wonder how the emotional state of the country would be if the shitpaper tabloids took a month off.
RTÉ too if they just stopped their news for a while, a mental holiday.
Ah yes let’s put an end to the world renowned quality that is Irish meat and dairy, and let’s instead import from a country with questionable levels of quality control
The most sustainable beef is still twice as resource hungry as the same calories in plant form.
I love the taste of meat. Lamb, venison, duck, beef, pork, chicken. You name it, I’ve converted it to poo. I eat meat or fish at 5-6 out of 7 dinners a week. But I’ve reduced the quantity at each meal.
I’ll never be vegetarian. But I don’t need the majority of calories to come from meat either.
Shes talking some slurry
They usually try to hide the fact that they’re just deflecting for fossil fuel companies so I appreciate the almost-honesty of this
This is the best tl;dr I could make, [original](https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/shoppers-meat-and-dairy-favourites-rival-oil-firms-on-greenhouse-gases-41144138.html) reduced by 82%. (I’m a bot)
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> Shoppers' favourite meat and dairy products come from companies that collectively cause more greenhouse gas emissions than Ireland and the Netherlands combined.
> It has calculated that the top 20 beef and dairy firms headquartered in Europe between them are responsible for 244 million tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions annually.
> The companies report much lower figures because they only have to account for emissions from their production operations, termed scope 1 and 2 emissions, not the much greater emissions from the livestock they buy in from farmers, classified as scope 3.
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