• over_clox@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    I still fail to understand this supposed correlation.

    Eat more meat, breed less meat…

    It’s not rocket science. Eat all the meats! If you don’t eat the meats, then the breeders win, with an extra surplus of animals generating methane…

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      1 month ago

      In anything more than the extreme short term, the number of creatures being breed ties directly to the demand. They aren’t just breesing them because they feel like it. For instance the US beef herd size has been falling due to the decrease in beef demand year over year

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        1 month ago

        It’s just math yo. Maybe it makes more sense if I explain it backwards. Breed less, eat more. Tada, less methane generators.

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          1 month ago

          Breeding fewer cows is going to have to entail reductions in consumption. Less supply in not all that much time. As a society, we’re not going to be able to do both at the same time