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I like meat, eat good quality meat 3-4 a week and enjoy it. However I see a bigger problem - insane amounts of food thrown away. Secondary problems imho is good packaging. If I buy 2 bags of food at local LIDL, I have 1 bag of plastic waste at the end. Nobody wants to solve this, zero profit here. https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2018/aug/20/f...

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I'm not sure if this is what you were suggesting, but there seems to be some misconception that vegetarians don't like meat.

I like meat, in fact I love it. I used to contribute to a food blog reviewing steak restaurants. I love the smell and (the thought of) the taste. I haven't eaten meat for about five years because of environmental reasons, not because I dislike it.

Not eating meat is such an easy thing for most people to do, the facts are in front of us and it would make a significant difference. It does not fill with me with optimism that most are unwilling to do even this.

Reducing food waste comes in at #3 of ways to reduce CO2, while switching to a plant based diet comes in at #4 [1]. That said, #3 is about agriculture/business waste of food, not what you and I are tossing from our plates.

> "A third of the food raised or prepared does not make it from farm or factory to fork"

Seriously though, the top thing in our control is eating plant based food!

1. https://www.drawdown.org/solutions-summary-by-rank

The GHG effect of Beef is much larger than wasted food, and it's x10 easier problem to solve.

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