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by dcosson 3435 days ago
Source needed.

But seriously, antibiotic resistance is a population-wide problem and you personally not eating meat won't protect you against antibiotic resistant bacteria.

Not to mention the idea that red meat specifically causes adverse health effects in most people is an old idea that modern nutrition studies have mostly not shown to be true.

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You've misunderstood the parent post. By embracing non-polluting alternatives, you promote and induce market growth along environmentally healthy lines and deny resources to unhealthy options. This may not protect you immediately, but over time it can absolutely work provided a sufficiently large group is able to act collectively.

There is plenty of evidence that this approach has worked in other domains to create behavioral changes in large, impersonal organizations.

Do you really think there is enough wild caught salmon to feed us all? We have to have solutions that scale and really work.
Ok so what he said less salmon i.e. Plants only then.
Maybe I did misunderstand. In that case I would think that buying locally raised, organic, grass-fed beef would be a more comparable alternative than wild salmon (Though neither is sustainable enough to replace the current levels of beef consumption for everyone).