If I got 3x the vacation time from work to let me travel by oceanliner or airship I’d happily stop flying — but that would never happen. So instead we just have to use discretion for both. Eat more mushrooms & beans; take trips closer to home by rail. And yes once in a while enjoy a nice steak or take a trip overseas. Moderation is key.
Do you vote? Because it’s the same principle - how one person votes might be irrelevant, but millions of people voting is powerful. This is true even though corporations have outsized influence on the political process.
Likewise, a single person deciding to not eat meat one day a week or replace one car journey with cycling is nothing in the global scheme of things, but a billion people all doing it will have more impact on the environment than any corporation ever could.
I see your point, though I think the comparison isn’t quite accurate. My one vote doesn’t get canceled out many times over by the vote of a billionaire (though I suppose you could argue that lobbying by that billionaire could indeed cancel it out.
I guess I’m just growing pessimistic. For as much as I personally do, I feel its a drop in the water that is negated 1000 times over by corporations and wealthy individuals. I’m also tired of the narrative being focused on individual effort instead of pressuring corporations etc. to take more responsibility. But both individual and corporate/government action are needed, I suppose, if we’re going to save ourselves…
That billionaire doing the right thing is going to force the same lifestyle changes anyway. Meat tycoon shuts down operations. Now no meat is available for purchase- vegan is the only option. Coal plants shut down. Blackout hours are enforced while battery infrastructure catches up. Auto makers shut down operations. Public transit is clogged until capacity increases, more people start biking. Airlines drastically cut available flights. No long distance travel for you until high speed rail can be built. Shipping magnates vessels are decommissioned. Many goods are either more expensive or entirely unavailable.
I keep reading that. But it’s not that simple. Corporations provide what individuals want. Their exploitation of the world’s resources and the damage to the climate is a side product of that. They aren’t a completely separate entity that do what they do just to be evil.
Governments need to heavily restrict corps and how they operate. Which will come with increased prices and limitations to the people. Which is unpopular and will mean that those politicians won’t get back into office…
Which is why nothing will happen and we are all fucked
Most people are used to include meats in their recipes so having exactly what they want but vegan is extremely useful. We need more vegan foods shaped like what people are looking for. I would love to see a seitan chicken breast next to the dead bird one because it shows people it exists and it works in what they are making and it’s good!
This is how my family is. I ate meat for every meal for every day of my life for damn near 30 years before I switched to vegetarian. The thought of eating meat makes me sick to my stomach after a few years as a vegetarian but sometimes I just feel like a breaded chicken patty and the plant based option scratches that itch.
In different European countries, I so far always had a good selection at Lidl. If it’s always the same store maybe point it out to a manager. If it’s constantly sold-out they might be interested as well to order some extra portions…
My mother is always telling me how she can’t buy the vegan alternatives for everyone all the time so she buys me my portions and the rest isn’t always vegan. If the prices where matched it would change everything. Maybe i should tell her i will pay to match the prices.
So the world health organization is trying to figure out the optimal ratio of animal products to plant products in the diet.
I can save them a lot of time. The optimal ratio of animal products is 0%, to 100% plant products. Of course, you really should supplement vitamin B12 and a few other things. But there’s no doubt about what the optimal ratio of animal to plant products in your diet is.
Translation: “Due to my inability to change any of my life-long habits, I compulsively ingest aged, blended, tortured pig scraps because that’s what the sexy girls on the tv do. Anyone I think is suggesting that this may not be the most clever way to live gets sprayed with whatever idiotic words come to my brain first.”
And the “debate” around it goes something like: “It’s now forbidden to eat Schnitzel!! Entirely!!1! We won’t take this paternalism anymore!11!!!” As always, it’s just a few people but they’re soo loud. It’s exhausting.
It’s like you suggest that punching yourself in the face is not a recommended practice and people are angry, wanting to punch themselves in the face so bad.
How dare they call this no meat sausage a sausage! Seize the products!
I don’t know what’s happening there, but I hope their government gets replaced with people who have better priorities next election. Thankfully their high court doesn’t have their head up their own asses in this instance.
The proposed penalties seem low to me. A max of $3.65M annually for operating means that so long as your operations in the county make more net profit than that, there’s no reason to leave. It seems to me that by merging any smaller operations, one could end up with a large enough operation to make that math work pretty trivially. Hell, for all I know even a rather small operation could be making that much.
Given that this was an activist-driven ballot initiative, it confuses me why they’re not simply basing the fines on profits…
Unfortunately many “activist-driven” initiatives, turn out to benefit more larger corporations, rather than either smaller owners, or the activists themselves.
We’re having a similar issue in the EU, where several months of “activist-driven” initiatives and protests, have resulted in regulation modificatios mainly benefitting large corporations, while actually hurting the activists themselves. 🤷
This is good and necessary, but it does feel pretty NIMBY unless they ban restaurants and markets from selling factory farmed meat shipped in from other counties as well
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