#i'm a person from countryside whose grandparents had cattle btw

[cuntylouis]

I don't have energy to reply to the post itself because i already have headache and op seems rather aggressive so it probably wouldn't go well but this post with over 1000 notes is literally incorrect. There is like. OVERWHELMING scientific consensus that going vegan or just eating significantly less animal products is one of the most beneficial things you can personally do for environment and for mitigating climate change. Yes, even if you import much of your food. Of course it's more complicated than live stock = always evil and plants and crops = always good. There are big differences between different products and countries and companies. As op said you can't fully separate animals and plants in farming industry. Counter-intuitively buying from small local farmers is not always automatically more environmentally healthy. And indigineous people and their traditions are a completely different subject. And no individual person can do much about climate change through their own choices, we need change our entire system for that. BUT there is wide agreement among the scientists and experts that people need to significantly reduce their meat consumption globally. It's part of the systematic changes we need to make. It's just a fact.