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Originally Posted by Kebabkungen
Saying "importing meat is bad for the environment" while not eating imported meat is perfectly fine and shows that you have integrity in your own beliefs, and not virtue signaling. Saying "imported meat is bad for the environment" and then having your own secret supply of kobe steaks for personal consumption is hypocritical virtue signaling . If these numbers are correct and Rast is top 10 water waster then hes definitely a virtue signaling hypocrite if he is known for preaching environmentalism.
Its about whether your statements align with your own actions or not.
Right, but you don't know what my habits are. Leo Dicaprio flying private jet to espouse saving the environment is clearly virtue-signalling, but that doesn't change the environment from being 'a worthy cause', and the truth or falsehood of eating imported meat being bad for the environment is not affected by whether or not the person saying it does or doesn't eat meat. We can preach less driving, for example, while still appreciating the necessity of driving sometimes, particularly when public transport is both expensive and awful, as it is in the UK and probably US too. The value of a statement shouldn't be subject to who is saying it and what they do with their own actions, and to refuse to do something someone else is saying because they appear not to align their actions with their own words is just an excuse, and a lazy one at that. The truth is that we are all, to differing degrees and in different ways, hypocrites, and there absolutely must be some space for 'do as I say, not as I do', even before we consider extenuating circumstances such as, for example, health requirements that someone needs to eat meat.