• Showroom7561
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    2 months ago

    While going vegan is a good thing for the environment

    It’s quite literally one of the most impactful things you can do as an individual.

    not everyone can or is willing to switch completely.

    99.99% of people can, but an org that’s fighting to end climate change really should have that be their minimum for members.

    Greenpeace, for example, promotes veganism all the time. I’d trust them more than these other guys.

    • BestBouclettes@jlai.lu
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      2 months ago

      Perfect is the enemy of good enough, the goal should be for everyone to reduce their footprint, and we shouldn’t be splitting hair and arguing that everyone should go vegan. That’s unrealistic.
      At the scale of a country if we get 90% of the people to reduce their red meat and dairy intake by 60% it would be a massive win already.

      Roughly 15% of the world population has IBS which means a much larger number than 0.1% cannot go vegan (I’m one of them). I try my best to reduce my food footprint but there’s only so much I can do.

      Also by your reasoning you can’t be a member of an organisation fighting against climate change if you’re not vegan, that’s a great way to drive people away from the cause…