Red meat has a huge carbon footprint because cattle requires a large amount of land and water.
https://sph.tulane.edu/climate-and-food-environmental-impact-beef-consumption
Demand for steaks and burgers is the primary driver of Deforestation:
https://e360.yale.edu/features/marcel-gomes-interview
If you don’t have a car and rarely eat red meat, you are doing GREAT 🙌🙌 🙌
Sure, you can drink tap water instead of plastic water. You can switch to Tea. You can travel by train. You can use Linux instead of Windows AI’s crap. Those are great ideas. But, don’t drive yourself crazy. If you are only an ordinary citizen, remember that perfect is the enemy of good.
Wrong:
https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/sources-greenhouse-gas-emissions
That is an unhelpful response. OP is talking about actions individuals can take and you provided a single word response with a link to overall climate change sources, most of which individuals have no control over (beyond voting).
I provided a link that directly disproves what OP is saying. How is it not helpful? It’s far more helpful than the original post by the merit of it not being a blatant lie.
Agriculture provenly provides roughly between 10% and a potential 20% of the pollution problem. And that’s including both livestock and equipment/vehicles. That still a lot, sure… but it’s not close to what these people would have you believe.
You’re totally fine to keep eating meat if that is what you enjoy in your diet. It’s barely making a dent in the bigger picture. Don’t let them stonewall you into changing what you enjoy just to meet their standards.
But… If you want to seriously fight greenhouse gases, and not just another vegan trying to bury the real motivation here- then go after big industry. Agriculture barely scratches what they’re doing.
Here’s more sources if you’d like, but they all just say the same thing.
https://www.rff.org/publications/explainers/agricultural-greenhouse-gas-emissions-101/
https://www.ewg.org/news-insights/news/2024/10/will-agriculture-be-americas-leading-source-greenhouse-gas-emissions
https://ourworldindata.org/ghg-emissions-by-sector