Men’s meat-heavy diets cause 40% more climate emissions than women’s

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[–]jet199[S] 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (4 children)

A feminist I follow was complaining that in poor countries women eat last and least.

This is actually an adaptation to a difficult environment. When women don't eat enough their periods stop, they can't have children, they then don't have extra mouths to feed so are more likely to survive the hard times.

If you start shipping food over to Afghanistan and designating it to women in some misguided feminist act all you are going to get is poor, oppressed women with huge families they have to work to look after and even less chance of feeding themselves when the NGOs disappear.

The fact is women women are more likely to eat less meat even when personal choice is unlimited so there must be evolutionary reasons for that and if you mess with it you are likely to cause problems. If you don't have a clue the why then you will have no way to predict what problems you will cause. Same vice versa with men.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

I like responding to you on a good day, but are you being nice to me cause the wife is gone? That's so sweet! You're a good egg. But you don't need to do that. I am indestructible. :)

[–]jet199[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Cope

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

You have no idea what it's like being an attractive male. You only sympathize with women being used as sex toys.

[–]Node 3 insightful - 4 fun3 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

You could use the traditional stick to fend them off, but I've found it's more effective to use the 'out of sight out of mind' approach.