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Originally Posted by Baraka_Guru
Well, if you cut out meat consumption 4 days per month, that equates to around a 13% reduction.
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Towards and regarding solely an individual's dietary habits, this may be true.
But, this also plays into quite a bit of assumptions, the most prominent being that perhaps each person's diet is uniformally the same, as well as static.
The 13% reduction figure is based on a pie figure of statistics that, ideally, may not even exist in the real world. Days change, circumstances change, our cravings and wants for food change. If we were rationed two ounces of meat to eat every month, and told to eat it for that day, or throw it away the next, then fine, I might believe the reduction, but does it serve the better towards everyone if they be told to not eat meat products on a weekly routine schedule (Lenten-observers aside)?
Also, I wasn't talking about the solution in terms of people, B_G, but they are free to eat and follow these regulations if they feel it "helps" some obscure cause of theirs, but I was more talking in terms of nationwide meat production, as well as consumption. It won't change unless the price / availability factors were to shift dramatically.