Feeding Bill Gates a Fake Burger (to save the world)

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dudus · 2021-05 · Strong recommendation

I blame meat consumption. This video from Mark Rober was eye opening for me. As a meat eater myself I'm convinced that eating meat is unsustainable. It's just a matter of time until we can't keep up with demand and meat will become something only the 1% can afford. [VIDEO] While it's so profitable to burn down forests and grow cattle people will keep doing it. Until there's nothing left .

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linsomniac · 2022-09 · Recommendation

I've been eating more plant based burgers because meat is unsustainable. Carbon emissions from meat are more than all the planes, trains, and automobiles combined. Water required to make 24 hamburgers will fill a pool. Meat is simply an inefficient way of making the calories and proteins we need. I still eat meat, I've just started moving to more plant based products. Mark Rober has a good coverage of this in his video "Feeding Bill Gates a Fake Burger (to save the world)": [VIDEO]

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linsomniac · 2022-08 · Recommendation

A couple years ago my son and I watched the Mark Rober video "Feeding a fake burger to Bill Gates to save the world" [1], and one of the takeaways from that is "you don't have to go full vegetarian, you can take a step by doing Meatless Mondays". I don't recall if his video talked about Methane, I do recall it talking about the staggering amount of water that is involved in making meat, and I live in a high plains desert, so water is something on my mind. It's been fun taking small steps. [1] [VIDEO]

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