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Farmed fish is terrible in terms of animal welfare and pretty bad in terms of CO₂, so best avoid that. Beef is terrible in terms of CO₂, but comparatively good in terms of animal suffering (the word "comparative" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there). So if you don't care about animals but do care about CO₂, beef is the most important one to avoid. For those who only care about animals, farmed fish and chickens are the most important to avoid.
Which Meat to Eat: CO₂ vs Animal Suffering
B Jacobs
A life that is cosmopolitan, which is to say, a life that belongs to no particular space or time, a life that knows no particular geography. There are no more local lives. Not in the great digital demimonde which acts as a totalizer and popularizer both.
Bobos in Ikea - By Brandon - Sweater Weather
blgtylr.substack.com
Party food before social media was not prepared with photographic representation in mind, so it’s no surprise that it was uglier. There’s a whole realm of stewy brown foods from every cuisine on earth that look very disgusting in photos but taste amazing and that people have, for all of human history, loved to eat together. You don’t see them much on social media though.
Rootin' Tootin' Charcutin' - By Kathryn Jezer-Morton
mothersundertheinfluence.substack.com
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