One action we can take to reduce our impact on the climate is to stop producing and eating beef.
Scroll down in this article to see the table and charts. Very informative.
I gave up beef & pork years ago. I still eat dairy (mainly yogurt and milk) but as you'll see, dairy production is far less damaging to the environment than beef production.
@ShaneArtBooks Never looked back after "Diet for a Small Planet" in my 20s. I do not understand why we can't learn & change!
@ShaneArtBooks After so many years, the thought turns my stomach. Dead, hacked beast. Nah
@gemswinc I spent some time in China. They eat dogs there although this practice is dying out because individual wealth has increased and now people have dogs for pets, not food. In fact, there's an active "don't eat dogs movement."
I began thinking about cows and pigs and dogs in the same category. I won't eat any of them.
@ShaneArtBooks From my limited experience of Chinese tour groups, they will eat anything
@gemswinc China experienced a great famine between 1958-1962, said to be the worst in human history. Estimates are that up to 43 million starved to death. The generations affected are equivalent to our Boomers and Gen Z.
It doesn't surprise me that the Chinese tour participants will eat...or at least try...anything.
@ShaneArtBooks Interesting information, thank you, fills in the blanks of my observations.
@ShaneArtBooks I was even taken in the US, on nature tours. First question... can you eat it?
@gemswinc First question "can you eat it?"
Exactly.
Mao's misguided economic policies called the Great Leap Forward was the cause of the famine.
Wikipedia has an article titled Great Chinese Famine if you want an introduction. Since then, there have been both nonfiction and fiction books written about it, and films made, too.
@ShaneArtBooks Thank you, I was not unaware, just had not linked it to observations.
@ShaneArtBooks Sort of like my mother living through the depression and becoming a shopaholic
@gemswinc Same with my parents - constant anxiety from the Great Depression conditions. They had a class approach (my view of class) in that they sought greater income, purchased "quality" items, all with the goal of impressing others. They did not want to be seen as the typical Depression refugees. They wanted their daughters to do even better: high status profession, more money, a "good marriage."
What they got in me was a feminist, anti-war socialist hippie.
Ah, the ironies of history.
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@ShaneArtBooks Sounds familiar !
@gemswinc Oh, I read that, book too!
Yes, I hope people will discover the very, very many delicious dishes we can make that don't require including body parts of a dead cow in the ingredients.