• commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 day ago

    society decides to buy less and instead higher quality meat the demand will go down and therefore the CO2 footprint

    this isn’t causal

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      1 day ago

      I may have articulated myself badly. What I mean is the following: If I decide to instead eat e. G. 1kg of low quality meat every week I am responsible (by eating meat) for an amount x of CO2 emissions. If I now switch to only 500g of higher quality meat the amount of CO2 emissions goes down to about 1/2x(I know this isn’t exactly true, due to the lost efficiency, but for bigger reductions its absolutely true, that the amount if CO2 you emitted goes down).

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        22 hours ago

        If I decide to instead eat e. G. 1kg of low quality meat every week I am responsible (by eating meat) for an amount x of CO2 emissions.

        I don’t think that’s true. those emissions happen regardless of whether you eat it. they happen regardless of whether you buy it.

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          18 hours ago

          Source please.

          Your analysis undermines genuine science by disregarding the reduction in demand which reduces the supply and forming a data set with a sample of 1.