The most environmentally friendly materials are 2nd hand animal products.
But also I follow a ton of people online who sheer sheep & other animals like alpacas (because it’s so funny) they’re fine.
You can see in their eyes that they’re fine.
They’re vibin with their mates, then they’re separated but this happens so its nbd, then they’re being manhandled a lil & they’re like “??? I’m on my back?? What’s going on?? Where is my grass???” Less than 2 mins later they’re back on their feet w a new hair cut & are like “Oh I’m upright again, oh look there are my friends and we all have cute new haircuts let’s go eat”
And they are not harmed because cuts & nicks ruin next years wool.
They’re fuckin UNIONISED!!!
If they don’t fuckin like where they are they will leave. If it gets too crowded, they will leave, maybe half of them will but it will be bad.
And bees are not harmed because that will also negatively effect future honey & wax production.
If you’re really worried about the bees, go to your local farmers market, there will be at least 1 stall selling honey, talk to them about their hives & how they do it all, I promise you that they are waiting to talk about their bees & hives to someone. Ask if they have pictures. & then buy from them. (A lot of them have cute af candles made out of bees wax I got one & it was too cute to use for so long)
As for leather/hide: if the animal is going to be eaten anyway, surely it’s best to use it all, right?
Like as long as the animal is raised happy & meets a quick death, I’m happy. (“wHaT iF u WeRE tHeM!” Yeah that’s what I’d want. Happy life, quick death, use all of me)
The average cow gives about 300kg of meat plus organs (brains, eyes, tongue, etc cuz people eat those. I’ve had tongue at a Korean BBQ place & it was fine ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ it wasn’t amazing & it wasn’t terrible it was just meat.) Then there are blood, bones, skin, etc.
Bone marrow is actually delicious I’ve had it once & it was so good.
& anything humans don’t eat can be animal or plant food (pets, compost, blood & bone nutrients for soil, etc)
Yeah the supply chain could treat workers better and produce less emissions but the same could be said for literally anything beyond growing all ur own food in ur backyard.
The average cow produces around 600 servings of meat (if 300kg meat is divided into 500g servings with allowances for organ meat, even if it’s divided into 1kg servings that’s still 300 servings at least)
That’s one meal for 600 people from 1 cow. Plus the animal food, leather goods (the average cow has a hide of about 50 square feet), & fertiliser to grow more food.
“The meat industry is responsible for so much climate change emissions!!!”
Yeah cuz a lot of it is all still run on non-renewable energy sources.
A switch to all renewable across the world (as much as possible) would drastically reduce that along with everyone else.
All supply chains should be run on renewables. (Factories, lodgings, trucks, etc)
But also the meat industry produces 350 million tons of meat per year (which is about 320 billion kgs or at least 320-640 billion portions per year or 40-80 portions per person per year. Probably more.)
Yes, that causes like 20% of global emissions & that’s terrifying.
The 1% tho?? With their private jets & mega yahts? They’re responsible for a around 15% of emissions each year.
Let’s compare these 2 numbers.
At least 300 billion meals for 20% of the emissions (on average if someone ate 1 portion for 3 meals a day, they’d eat 1,095 portions a year & if decided like that the 300B portions could feed 273,972,603 people for a full year which is 3.45% of the global population at minimum. Its probably double that irl & obviously this isnt how animal products are divided, it doesnt take into account private farms, hunters, or seafood)
While the 1% is about 80 million people. Contributing just 5% less than one of the main food industries in the world.
We are focusing on the wrong things. Ground the private planes, beach the mega yachts, make the rich pay their fair share.
“Cows produce so much methane & thats worse than CO²!!”
Because of what we feed them right now. It’s already been proven that a change in their diets will have a big impact on their methane production as well as potentially improve the biodiversity of the area AND shouldn’t effect meat/milk production.
The animals are not the issue here
The issue is the greed of the 1% choosing to save 10 cents a cow by not doing the right things.
Don’t let them greenwash things, demand action that will actually help people.
Not everyone can go vegan
Not everyone should have to go vegan so the rich can stay rich
It was fine for hundreds of years and now we produce more food than we can eat and it all rots on the store shelves because people who need it don’t have access to it.
More emissions are produced & wasted by food that’s made & then thrown out.
France has now made it illegal to throw out food that can still be eaten & it has to be donated to food drives. Everywhere should be like this.
(Note: if u occasionally forget about food or leftovers in ur fridge & have to throw it out don’t feel bad, as long as you’re trying your best you’re fine)
(Also the main things that replaces meat products are soy or nuts. 2 of the main biggest allergies experienced worldwide, so no, a lot of people can’t really go vegan)
Bean soup/waffles disclaimer:
I am not saying that going vegan isn’t good, I’m not saying you’re evil for going vegan, I’m not saying you shouldn’t go vegan if you can/want to.
The only thing I have against vegans in principle/theory is their obsession with plastic replacements of animal products which is worse for everyone including animals, their insistence that if no animals are visibly hurt for their food, there’s no harm (biodiversity collapse, human exploitation, etc), & the general snobbishness they have for people who aren’t vegan. (If u do none of these I have no issue with u)
I personally think that a diet that’s a balance of omnivore & vegetarian with most food being what can be sourced “locally” (in country or if ure in Europe countries nearby) is where we need to be going.
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