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Americans are trying to ban it.

Plus it's delicious, it either tastes exactly like white tail deer or perhaps i was scammed

I myself eat venison, moose and reindeer. Sometimes horse when it's off-season for hunting, but that's kinda janky as it's not really game, but the incentives for "farming" horses don't really exist so..

Anyway, my local butcher's has some frozen 'roo. I've had some on a pizza when drunk once, but don't really recall it that well for my BAC was kinda high. I do remember feeling a tad absurd eating a pizza with kangaroo on it while a guy rode past on a unicycle. I'm not imagining that, although I may have also been high at the time.

Anyway, my point is how'd you compare 'roo to beef in texture and taste?

I hated lamb for instance (and generally don't buy it because the morality is horrible, just had a chance to taste and didn't like). Venison, moose, reindeer, horse, all awesome. Reindeer most gamy, moose second, then venison and horse on a pretty similar level. All really lean usually.

I don't think it's necessary to compare yourself to others here. The consumption goal should just be to consume less and every effort makes a difference. If you eat red meat every day, then try every other day. If you already do that, try once a week. If you feel you can consume even less then have it as a rare treat or just cut it out entirely.

The bulk of your post is probably the reason why consumption goals aren't given - it's not going to be the same for everyone.

Anyone who only eats 1 steak per year is unlikely to see a general statement like "reduce your red meat consumption" and think "oh no, I'm eating too much red meat", because they are likely well aware of how much the average person eats compared to them.

"A sustainable diet leaves room for 2 chicken breasts a week"

(Really, 2 servings of fish / poultry per week. No red meat.)

The average person outside of developing nations vastly outpaces this consumption rate.

The small, single-digit percent of the population that's vegetarian/vegan, as well as people who are experiencing food insecurity and do not have consistent access to meat are ahead of the curve from a sustainability perspective.

When 95+% of people who have the means to dictate their meal choices do not achieve the target reduction it's generally safe to say everyone who eats meat needs to cut back.

One or two meals with any meat at all per week, never any red meat at all.

Increasing the bag limit on "billionaire" to something greater than "0" would have a much more appreciable effect on the climate than a thousand families forgoing children.

Your edit makes me wish I could downvote this again. Your flawed logic can be used to excuse a number of ridiculous and fucked up shit. “Folks just don’t get it.” Fuck off with that bullshit.

It’s not apathy it’s pragmatism? But then you rant about how nothing matters.

Better to spend time and energy elsewhere? So you spend time and energy convincing others to be as apathetic and weak as you. So weak you needed to desperately justify your apathy to yourself and to others by editing your comment.

Don’t wanna eat less meat? Go for it dawg. Eat it up. Don’t give a fuck about deforestation? The fucked up conditions animals are raised in? The pollution and everything that comes with it? Just because cruises are wasteful? You do you, big dawg.

But to tell everyone else to not give a fuck either is just some absurd fucked up apathetic shit. It’s not pragmatic. It’s so obvious you lie to yourself. The audacity to say “folks just don’t get it.”

Airlines, cruise lined oil companies are not immutable forces of nature. They have grown to their current size to meet the demand of individuals like you and me who want to buy shit and go places.

If everyone stopped flying, passenger airlines would be out of business and no longer flying planes within a year or two. Same with cruise companies. Oil is used in more things but if everyone switched to EVs or stopped driving oil production would go way down- even more if we cut our plastic usage as well.

Don't fall into the trap of thinking consumers are powerless. In a free market economy they are very powerful- that's why boycotts can be so effective.

A quarter of emissions is nothing? Yeah the overwhelming majority is attributable to major oil companies, but you're just being lazy and fatalistic. But sure, just sit there and wait for a paradigm shift to come save you from yourself I guess. Literally the first two search results I found:

https://www.dw.com/en/fact-check-is-eating-meat-bad-for-the-environment/a-63595148 https://www.c2es.org/content/regulating-transportation-sector-carbon-emissions/

I continued eating beef 4 years ago. It was also a great decision.

I heard it would be better for our health to compost the wealthy and eat the crops that grow.