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How changing your diet could help save the world (news.ubc.ca)
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Eat only what you need. Repurpose what you don’t. Less wasted food means fewer emissions, less cooking and more easy, tasty leftovers.  

Eliminate or reduce your beef consumption—43 per cent of food-related emissions from the average Canadian come from beef alone. We could have had our beef and eaten it too if we’d followed the agreements laid out in the Kyoto Protocol, but we’re now at a point where food emissions also need to fall to avoid the worst of climate change.

Vote with your fork. This is a first step to demand change from your political leaders. The more we talk about our own dietary changes and what matters to us, the more politicians will begin to care about policies that bring positive changes to our food systems.

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[–] festus@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 days ago

These corporations are producing emissions as a byproduct of them producing products and services for consumer lifestyles; reducing these emissions will require them to compromise on price or quality, necessarily affecting consumers.

Consider - suppose that to reduce emissions, the government shut those corporations down and prevented others from increasing their emissions. You think your lifestyle would be unaffected? You might be unable to buy a car (or unable to fuel it). You'd be unable to fly overseas. Beef would probably be more expensive, causing people to eat less of it. Regardless, your lifestyle would be impacted. Like it or not, but if you're buying products and services from these corporations (directly or not) then you're part of the problem too.