Of course it has helped. It may not have reduced the global meat consumption, because sadly there is still an increase through other people, but it has definitely reduced the current overall meat consumption in comparison to the scenario of this person having continued to eat meat.
Who knows how many of the people who have contributed to this consumption increase have considered reducing but decided that their actions don’t matter anyway?
I mean yeah, they do. And I also get that it sounds easier to ban the production than convince billions of people to change their habits, but the companies also wouldn’t produce all the meat if it didn’t get bought by people, so consumption is just as much of an issue. If we stopped the production somehow people would protest these restrictions too, so it is in the least very helpful if people give up meat willingly. And there really is no benefit in waiting to stop the consumption until the politicians do anything about it.
Yeah, because most people refuse to do this and would rather die than be even slightly inconvenienced.
regardless of your excuse, just choosing not to eat meat hasn’t actually helped save the planet.
Sure, individual choices don’t matter. My choice to wear a mask couldn’t stop COVID either.
What matters are collective choices, made as a society. If everyone stopped eating meat, it would help.
But they won’t. They’d rather die.
Of course it has helped. It may not have reduced the global meat consumption, because sadly there is still an increase through other people, but it has definitely reduced the current overall meat consumption in comparison to the scenario of this person having continued to eat meat.
Who knows how many of the people who have contributed to this consumption increase have considered reducing but decided that their actions don’t matter anyway?
this can’t be proven. what makes you think more meat could possibly have been produced?
As I’ve talked of consumption, not production, it is basically self-evident.
production must proceed consumption
but consumption isn’t an issue. all the environmental problems come from production.
I mean yeah, they do. And I also get that it sounds easier to ban the production than convince billions of people to change their habits, but the companies also wouldn’t produce all the meat if it didn’t get bought by people, so consumption is just as much of an issue. If we stopped the production somehow people would protest these restrictions too, so it is in the least very helpful if people give up meat willingly. And there really is no benefit in waiting to stop the consumption until the politicians do anything about it.