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		chimineycricket on Feb 12, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Lessons Learned from 1 Year of Intermittent Fastin... Parent wasn't talking about the climate or sustainability at all. My point is that that's not what the conversation is about. The parent was talking about _health_, not climate. Sustainability of meat industry is irrelevant completely to healthiness or non-healthiness of being a human carnivore.

uxcolumbo on Feb 12, 2023 [–]

And yet how we feed ourselves is tightly linked to the climate crisis.

You can't disconnect the two unfortunately.

Here is an interesting graph from IPCC's data showing the impact of various diets on green house gas emissions. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02409-7

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