• DotSlashExecute@feddit.uk
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    1 year ago

    As a vegan myself, I completely agree! I won’t tell others what to eat and they shouldn’t tell me what to eat. If I were to ever get “preachy” it’s purely about reducing impact on the factors mentioned in the meme and by no means forced… One less meal a week with meat in? Go you! Locally sourcing meat? Hell yeah, less environmental impact!

    • usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.mlOP
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      1 year ago

      For the bit about local, it’s worth noting here that the difference is substantially less than one might expect. Transport is a surprisingly small portion of emissions and environmental impact

      Transport is a small contributor to emissions. For most food products, it accounts for less than 10%, and it’s much smaller for the largest GHG emitters. In beef from beef herds, it’s 0.5%.

      Not just transport, but all processes in the supply chain after the food left the farm – processing, transport, retail and packaging – mostly account for a small share of emissions.

      This data shows that this is the case when we look at individual food products. But studies also shows that this holds true for actual diets; here we show the results of a study which looked at the footprint of diets across the EU. Food transport was responsible for only 6% of emissions, whilst dairy, meat and eggs accounted for 83%

      https://ourworldindata.org/food-choice-vs-eating-local

      • Abel@lemmy.nerdcore.social
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        1 year ago

        I always thought the party of supporting local wasn’t transport but supporting your local economy and small producers, keeping the money within your city and raising buying power for its citizens.

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          1 year ago

          Most of what I hear from those touting local is about the environment (and usually unaware of the levels of its effects)