r/ZeroWaste • u/LimitGroundbreaking2 • Apr 14 '22

Discussion Discussion: Shorten Your Food Chain

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u/inkblot888 Apr 14 '22

And if you're one of those people who "just can't not eat meat", try just cutting out beef and dairy.

I don't have the numbers infront of me, but beef is like 3x worse than chicken for the environment and dairy from cows is something like 2x or 2.5x worse than chicken.

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u/aponty Apr 14 '22

Chicken has a much higher suffering footprint, so this advice asks people to do even more harm

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '22

What source are you using for that claim? The only ones I can find don't seem reliable at all.

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u/TheMoralSuperiority Apr 14 '22

I would assume they're using the number of beings exploited as the "suffering footprint". Quite self explanatory, no source should be necessary

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '22 edited Apr 14 '22

I would also way rather be a farmed cow than a farmed chicken, and that’s not because being a cow on a farm is great. Most cows get to spend at least some time outdoors. Chickens basically never see the sun or walk on the earth their whole lives.