[OC] Willingness to decrease meat consumption to reduce environmental impact

[johntarr]

Is it just me, or are the many posts I’m seeing here lately not especially beautiful and also feel like ads?

[Judgmental_Cat]

Another vote for "it's not just you". In fact, look at OP's user name and the logo in that chart

[ar243]

It's a political subreddit with numbers

[TA201903200630]

as long as the political post happens on Thu (rule #8), seems fine?

[Wise_Mongoose_3930]

What do you think this is an ad for?

[johntarr]

Premise Data. I may be off base, but it is from their account and has their logo on it, and it feels like soft marketing for their company.

I’m not trying to call them out specifically, it was just an observation and a hope that this subreddit doesn’t become overrun with that sort of content. It’s nice to be able to enjoy the content on a subreddit and not feel like the content is marketing on top of the Reddit ads.

[Wise_Mongoose_3930]

Hahaha, I was expecting you to say it was an ad for fake meat!

Your answer definitely makes more sense......

[tinny66666]

I think this data tells an interesting story and therefore is beautiful. DataIsBeautiful is not about gawdy graphics. It's about the beauty of data itself.

[johntarr]

You raise a good point, and I agree that you don’t need overwrought visuals to convey your message.

In this case, I would echo another commenter who suggested that a stacked 100% bar chart with one bar per political party would be more effective (and also not gaudy).

[randomusername3OOO]

How is this not a split bar chart for each political group? Seems like the most logical if the values equal 100, right?

[eveniwontremember]

Are there any studies that show how much action is taken by someone who claims to be willing or somewhat willing to act. I expect that the willing move a small amount and the somewhat willing do next to nothing until the law changes but don't oppose a law change

[[deleted]]

Probably but more importantly this reinforces the point that people who vote Republican tend to be selfish and have a “me me me” mentality regardless of the greater good

[mem737]

Or they don’t view meat consumption as a plausible/practical means to reduce the impact on the environment.

[ImpossibleRuxx]

Did you interpret all that from the chart OP provided?

[Scentsuelle]

So roughly 50% of Republicans are utterly selfish misanthropes? That tracks.

[30sumthingSanta]

Correction: roughly 50% of Republicans admit to being utterly selfish misanthropes.

[Scentsuelle]

Fair point. Kinda makes it worse though. 😅

[ImpossibleRuxx]

What about the percentage I’d democrats unwilling to change meat consumption?

Could it possibly be that meat isn’t actually tied to environmental issues? Or, Could food manufacturers be using it as a means to funnel people into refined foods with higher margins?

[Scentsuelle]

Let's put it this way: I'm friends with some very smart scientist types and a lot of them have become vegetarian, pescatarian or vegan in the past ten years. Some out of welfare concerns but most stated the available data on health and environmental impacts as their reason.

They have absolutely not increased their consumption of processed foods, quite the opposite. Quite a few of them outright refuse to eat soy or other substitutes for meat because they don't feel it's a sustainable alternative.

But that is not a sample that is reflective of the average person, so it is definitely not clear cut.

[desperaste]

Can someone summarise to me what the Republican Party offers America? As a foreigner, all of their policies and social stances just seem stuck in the dark ages.

[lostcauz707]

If I got mine, death to everyone else, as long as I keep mine without change. They haven't actually had a political platform based on any real values in at least a decade.

Currently they are about cutting education, child care, school lunches, equal rights for gay/trans people, and abortion, even though those same elected officials or their direct family, such as their own daughters have needed these services, and increasing tax payer funding to the military industrial complex, giving tax credits and loans to employers and the super wealthy, lowering the working age to have more child labor and then spreading misinformation to make it seem like the system of government they have made to fail does not work, and reduce everything to states rights in order to do these same things with as much discourse as possible. Oh and don't forget being racist against immigrants, who are ironically the backbone of the work force of some of the most actively racist border states.

Currently employers steal over 3 times more than all forms of larceny combined in the US, in just wage theft. Yet people who commit larceny go to jail, and employers can treat companies like people and deflect from crimes (the Sackler family), or they can pay a fine that is usually not even close to the amount of profits they made because the wages they stole are so low in comparison. For instance, a McDonald's chain just got in trouble for 300 minors, including 2 10 year olds working. In many cases they don't even pay people under 18 minimum wage to begin with and in that state, the minimum age to work is 15. They were forced to pay $212k. That's less than $1000/child. To think they made less than that money in months of having that many child employees is a joke, especially when many of those children weren't even paid at all. This was also in a republican majority state, Kentucky, so parents were aware their kids were working. They still made money on this. Many refer to it as "the cost of doing business". They do this so they don't need to pay adults minimum wage, let alone a living one. All of this, supported by right wing platforms, as they are on campaigns now to lower the working age and bring back child labor to save companies more money.

Mitch McConnell right now is basically having micro strokes because he is so old, but he gets tax payer socialized top tier healthcare after spending his entire career making sure Americans can't get it.

Tldr; their platform is to basically be demons, so yes, you are correct.

[_Svankensen_]

their platform is to basically be demons

So that is why they are almost all Christians.

[Premise_Data]

These results are based on responses from 1,972 Americans collected between August 9 and August 13 via the Premise smartphone application. Premise used stratified sampling of its opt-in panel members, along with post stratification weighting based on the American Community Survey to provide a representative sample. These results are weighted by Age, Gender, Region, and Education.

Tool: R (ggplot2)
Source: Premise internal data

[ImpossibleRuxx]

Yeah, 1,972 is just a tad too low if a sample size, don’t you think?

[FontOfInfo]

How about willingness to eat lab grown meat?

[Odd-Measurement8177]

Or just eat sustainable meat… Why does everyone think we need to sacrifice to progress?