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Most Irish people underestimate the link between eating red meat and climate change
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this post was submitted on 08 Jun 2024
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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..
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
Demand in the country can fall, but they'll find somewhere else that will happily import Irish beef to keep the demand there
Even if you replaced it 100% with exports, then domestic demand falls elsewhere in the world from decreased domestic consumption in the country you're exporting to