newman555

well still better than both ruining the planet and health with animal based processed food.

For B12? You do know that animals don’t produce B12, but microorganisms (that can be found in soil and untreated water) and that farmed animals eat B12 supplemented food?

So no, people don’t need meat. Not for B12, or for proteins or for iron or for anything else.

Do people want to eat meat? That’s a different story.

thanks for replying. and I like the quote :-)

how frustrating it is for you to do what you do and know what you know? I only know the “common” knowledge about climate change and it makes me angry every time I think about what we know and where we’re still heading.

and majority of that agriculture land is for animal agriculture (which is probably obvious to everyone by now)

funny enough, was asking my self the same question yesterday after 5-minute googling didn’t get me anywhere. I see a recommendation mentioned below, but as I also saw, hard to find something where you can control signal to noise ratio

“help endure climate change”, while beef and eating meat is one of the major contributors to climate change … This is wrong on so many levels.

Zero harm is a myth for most things. But harm involved in producing cow’s milk (to animals, to environment) and plant based milk is HUGELY different.

It sounds to me you want to make everything relative so that the conclusion is “everything involves some harm, so I might just eat me some steaks and drink some cow milk, it won’t matter”. But it matters greatly. So let’s not do that.

I’m not looking for any high ground, I’m looking for decent ground. There’s no way you can compare the cruelty involved in producing cow milk to that of producing oat milk for example. It’s not in the same universe.

once I switched there’s no way I’m ever going back to cow’s milk. Why? Health, much greater taste variety, no cruelty involved to make it, environmental benefits.

“and justice for all”

not again. I can’t go through 641st “nuclear vs solar/wind” thread on HN about :)

Isn’t this an objective data driven problem and we can decide what’s better for short / medium / long term?

I have to say I didn’t notice anyone saying anything positive or dismissing about the climate change on HN lately, it seems we generally agree that the problem is very real. Although it seems that when it comes to solutions - lots of discussions and disagreement there.