addendum: this is not an excuse to do nothing on a personal level. you are just as bad as the corporations if you act carelessly like you can’t help change anything. go vegan

[–] soggy_kitty@sopuli.xyz 15 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Whenever I say this I get gang downvoted by people on this site.

What most fail to understand is they are contributing to the emissions of shell and other major contributors to global warming by purchasing or using anything which relates to their products.

The wealthy humans can afford to avoid these products, but they cop out. Personally I've bought a second hand electric car and gone vegan over the last 18 months. It's more expensive than not changing my car but I could afford it and now I don't support the oil industry at all. Next on my list is my natural gas house boiler.

I've had people say 4 return flights a year isn't many flights and isn't a factor to climate change, especially compared to businesses which fly employees everywhere. Madness

[–] ComradePorkRoll@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Do we have the proper infrastructure to make sure everyone can take on a vegan diet?

[–] soggy_kitty@sopuli.xyz 15 points 10 months ago

You can take a vegan diet right now, no problems at all.

Just focus on yourself, then convince one other person later down the line

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 6 points 10 months ago

At once? No. But via advocacy and trying to claw people to the side of veganism, even partially, over time industry adjusts.

[–] FIST_FILLET@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

absolutely, plants and vegetables have been around since the dawn of time, and once we stop funneling those plants through animals so they can grow fat and get slaughtered, we can just eat the plants directly from the source :) like @Cowbee said (no idea how to tag people on lemmy, sorry), however, getting everyone on board is a process

the only reason why animal meat is so rich in b12-vitamins is because it is artificially pumped with it. nutritionally the exact same as taking a supplement tablet, except the supplement tablet doesn't go through a gas chamber before they sell it to us

edit: here's a handy site that answers the most frequent arguments against veganism: https://yourveganfallacyis.com/en - i also recommend Ed Winters ("earthling ed" on youtube), i'm currently reading through the first of his two recent books on veganism