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One needs to kill much less plants if one avoids anymal products. Cows, pigs, dogs etc. are very inefficient at converting plants they consume into flesh that c
by fpoling 10y ago
One needs to kill much less plants if one avoids anymal products. Cows, pigs, dogs etc. are very inefficient at converting plants they consume into flesh that can be eaten.
- akvadrako 10y agoThe resource efficiency argument is quite separate from the moral argument based on the intrinsic value of animal life. Unless you are arguing it's more moral to eat 1kg of grain than 10kg of grass or something like that.
- fpoling 10y agoI was referring to "Plants and viruses are also pretty smart." that implied that killing plants is not OK. Clearly humans have to kill living creatures to survive, but a moral problem only raises when one has a choice. And we do have a choice between eating, say, a ton of grains or feeding a cow 10 tonn of grass and then killing the cow.