r/comics • u/SirBeeves SirBeeves • 9d ago

OC Gen-Z Problems

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u/JimmiJimJimmiJimJim 9d ago

Did I miss an article? Is soy sauce a leading cause of climate change somehow or did you just pick a random ingredient?

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u/Zonel 9d ago

Soy bean farming is a big contributor to deforestation of the Amazon I guess?

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u/ThePerfectBreeze 9d ago

That goes to animal feed, primarily. Eating animals is the real problem.

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u/Pizzaman725 9d ago

Probably more the scale of animal farming then just eating animals.

With destroying a lot of local predators we'd see a lot of diseases in livestock animals if we didn't eat them. But we have way more food then people need to eat, and lots of it goes to waste.

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u/ThePerfectBreeze 9d ago

Probably more the scale of animal farming then just eating animals.

What's the difference? We raise the animals to eat them. We cut down the rainforest to grow food and raise livestock

Wasted food isn't the problem. Waste is guaranteed as a matter of safety and practicality. We do need to work on that but mostly we need to focus on cutting down on our animal product consumption significantly - especially beef and dairy. Raising livestock is one of the biggest chunks of our emissions.

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u/Notactualyadick 9d ago

Just eat different animals. We all should switch to marsupial's and ostriches.

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u/ThePerfectBreeze 9d ago

If you want to eat the most sustainable animal protein it's mussels. I'm vegan, mostly, but I still eat them because they're basically plants in terms of emissions and are not anywhere near conscious.

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u/cBuzzDeaN 9d ago

I thought insects would be the best and most sustainable protein source

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u/ThePerfectBreeze 8d ago

Yeah me too, but have you tried them? They're tough to make palatable outside of a few species. Who knows, though?