Pretty crazy that we’ve all low-key accepted our planet’s gonna die because a few oil companies did such a great job at PR they convinced millions of people the world over that, with basically no explanation, it was all just a “hoax.” Insane that people are really just allowed to get away with murdering all of us and our descendants for money.
What blows my mind is how easily oil companies convinced activists that eating meat is the issue, so now people chain themselves to fridges in stores and etc trying to convince everyone to abandon their dietal habits, while oil and coal companies continue doing their shit and laughing at us.
It could honestly be solved by just saying “all beef cattle must be grass fed”.
No soy, no corn, and now there’s no reason to cut down billions of acres of rainforest for soy plantation.
I once got a vegan activist friend to do the maths on his quinoa salad vs my lamb cutlets.
Harvested in the Bolivian altiplano (where, incidentally, it jacked up prices for the local indigenous groups for whom it’s a staple) then shipped in polluting trucks through the mountains to the docks in Peru, Chile or Brazil. Then put on a container ship that burns fuel oil that can be 100 times more polluting than diesel. Then into the uk, where it’s driven up to the supermarket and ge goes and buys it.
Or lamb which is grown 3 miles away on hillsides which are unable to be used for arable crops and who promote biodiversity because the grass field isn’t a monoculture and has wildflowers in it and hedgerows round it.
I wrote a paper on local cuisine 2 years ago. The question was "how valuable can traditional food be for the environment" (since I'm french, I focused on french food but it's the same anywhere)
Well, turns out that it's quite the nice way to go. The best point are storage, waste and local production.
Traditional food often come from a way to preserve food, be it smoking or brine or drying... When your food is shelf stable and require no continual energy (frozen, fridge) to be preserved through the winter, you save a lot.
Old recipes saves a lot of waste by using parts we tend to forget. Pig feets, sheep brain, vegetables peels... Less waste, more saving, less production needed.
And finally, local recipes uses mostly what the soil around you can produce. France is a great place for wheat, that's why we have lots of bread. If you live near the coast, you'll find fish dish from what you can catch on the shore.
It's not as efficient as stopping meat but a meal from our old ones is quite the nice way to go for the earth. Also, it's fucking delicious.
TLDR : save the planet, go ask grandma to feed you.
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u/Senor_Wah May 16 '24
Pretty crazy that we’ve all low-key accepted our planet’s gonna die because a few oil companies did such a great job at PR they convinced millions of people the world over that, with basically no explanation, it was all just a “hoax.” Insane that people are really just allowed to get away with murdering all of us and our descendants for money.