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Post #4187818
2026-07-29 07:27 UTC
There's an organic exceptionalism at work: I'm a good consumer because I eat only organic eggs / pasture-fed meat etc. In many cases these have a higher, sometimes MUCH higher, environmental impact. The worst of all farm products are organic beef and lamb. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The most damaging farm product...
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@georgemonbiot.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy 2026-07-29 07:31
We tend to exonerate ourselves by selectivity: I don't eat horrible feedlot beef! But the land use and greenhouse gas emissions from the nice-looking, grass-fed model are massively worse. We should stop looking at the pictures and start looking at the numbers.