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Switching to plant-based diets means cleaner air – and it could save more than 200,000 human lives around the world (theconversation.com)

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 months ago (1 children)

But I like feeling like a real manly man when I eat my real manly meat in a real manly way with my real manly bros, surely that's worth a few hundreds thousands human lives a year ?

(And btw, plant-based diets could also save 100 million animal lives a year)

[–] [email protected] -5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I think it you want to see the environmental benefits, is less of saving animal lives and more ensuring that 100 million animals a year never exist?

Edit: Not sure what is controversial about this. We stop eating meat to stop farming of livestock. No livestock lives are saved, just new animals aren't born into the mincer.