• Cryophilia@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    Me personally? I don’t care about cruelty, so what would get me to change is a law that says I must. Or legal/economic incentives.

    I do care about the environment, so I don’t eat beef. But that’s not common. Most people who don’t care about animal cruelty also don’t care about the environment.

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      2 hours ago

      A lot of vegans are environmentalists too, and so it caught my eye that you specificied beef. If you’re interested in an easy way to dramatically drop your environmental impact relative to the effort, trying out plant milks can be a great way to go about it. The dairy and beef industries are heavily intertwined, and from an environmental standpoint, dairy milk stands head and shoulders above plant ones in terms of emissions, land usage, and water usage. I would say that plant milks offer a better experience than dairy milk even completely disregarding the ethics and the environment, so it could be worth your while.

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        2 hours ago

        You’re correct! And I’m working on that. I still think plant milks in cereal tastes weird, but fuck it cereal is bad for you anyway. I’m mostly on plant based milks now.