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Eating less meat ‘like taking 8m cars off road’
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If eating no meat at all is too hard, from a climate perspective eating no beef will have the biggest impact. Eating no ruminants to be specific, but hardly anyone is eating bison/sheep/goat on the regular.
I went like 90% vegetarian and switched to the meat substitutes. If I can do it, anyone can. I've always had a meat-a-saurus diet until 2-3 years ago.
I've only met one person who couldn't go veg, because they had allergies to everything: soy, legumes, nuts.
There's been a lot of obsession with protein in popular culture when in reality unless you're a bodybuilder you don't need a ton and a veg diet will suffice. And there are tons of vegan athletes.
The point I was making is that there is one step even the laziest can take to have an impact: just stop eating beef. Going full veg is better of course.
Beef should be easy, too, because it’s so goddamn expensive.
Lamb is popular in the UK. Beef is actually behind chicken and pork already.
Is lamb a regular dish or more of a Christmas and special occasion dish? I'm not in the UK so I genuinely don't know. Not sure that you can get lamb at a fast food joint like you can with beef burgers.
Shepherd's pie is a fairly regular Sunday meal.
And kebab meat is normally lamb. You can get that at pretty much any takeaway chippy in the country, and is traditionally eaten with about six pints of cheap lager.
A joint of lamb is a special occasion dish, but I think the statistics are skewed by the massive number of drunkenly-consumed kebabs
I'm in the US and can get lamb at fast food joints. Go to any Mediterranean shop for a gyro. Afaik it's even more available in the UK since it's primarily sold as people food, not dog food like the US market.
I'm in Canada and there aren't a lot of shops with gyros. Tons of shawarma though, but that's all beef or chicken.
I eat bison instead of beef, that way I'm a big part of a smaller problem rather than the other way around.