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I cut down on eating meat to 3 times a week but Burgers won't like that. An alternative is organic free range meat but damn that's too expensive.



Nice, move... But you also have to choose the right shampoo :)

And some shampoos might have organic ingredients, while the contents is manufactured in an environmental damaging fashion... Others might be environmentally responsible, but not organic. Some might be both, but nighter of those is a guarantee that it's good for you. Organic snake poison, might be organic, but it's still very unhealthy :)

Point being that consumer choice is not a good way to solve these problems.

That said, eating less meat is generally a good approach. But replacing it with organic free range meat is not a perfect solution without a study. Could we feed the entire planet this way? Is it as efficient in terms of fodder needed? Is free range better than caged in terms of animal welfare (usually, yes, but there could be caveats).




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