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Well okay then.
If my only options are, "Continue eating all the meat you want and the planet is fucked."
...or, "Stop eating all meat and go completely vegan...and the planet is still fucked unless everyone else does it too."
Well...
... fire up that grill, man, I've got some steaks and burgers in the freezer.
God, seeing the comments from some people that I'm even nominally on the "same side of the aisle" makes me see how the other side finds it so easy to not only ridicule, but automatically unite in opposition against it.
Like, nothing brings me closer to being understanding and sympathetic to the people I'd normally be ideologically set totally against...like visiting Lemmy and seeing the shit flowing from the people I broadly tend to align with.