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Kind of wild how we have a potential pandemic brewing in Amerikkka that no one in power seems to even acknowledge exists. (hexbear.net)

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[-] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 59 points 1 month ago

Society-wide veganism via massive livestock pandemic is going on my 2025 bingo card.

[-] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 34 points 1 month ago

I'm gonna stop being vegan if everyone else does it!

[-] NewAcctWhoDis@hexbear.net 27 points 1 month ago

I fucking wish but people would rather die

[-] QueerCommie@hexbear.net 20 points 1 month ago

What if the eco-fascists saying Covid was the earth trying to cleanse itself were right?

[-] Hello_Kitty_enjoyer@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago

they wouldn't be since it was manmade in a North American laboratory

[-] troybot@midwest.social 18 points 1 month ago

I'd like to think mass extinction of livestock would help stop climate change, but then capitalism would just invent a meat cloning factory that would produce double the methane

[-] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 16 points 1 month ago

It's actually kind of an issue right now with single-cell protein production. These companies are popping up with these very electricity intensive ways of culturing yeasts or bacteria for protein and if it takes off on our dirty grid, it'd result in a lot of CO2 emissions.