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>Eating meat is natural Relieving yourself outdoors is natural, and we've been doing it for ages. Killing intraspecies rivals/competitors is natural, and we've
by fnovd 8y ago
>Eating meat is natural
Relieving yourself outdoors is natural, and we've been doing it for ages. Killing intraspecies rivals/competitors is natural, and we've been doing it for ages. Dying of a preventable disease is natural, and we've been doing it for ages. I don't think we should base our behavior off naturalistic fallacies.
Is eating meat better for your health than abstaining? Usually not. Is eating meat better for the environment? Usually not. It's very easy to just eat meat and dismiss veganism as impractical because that's the socially dominant position to have.
It's easier than ever to transition to a more vegan diet. There are hundreds of replacement products to ease your transition if it's something you care about. There are ethical, environmental, and health-conscious reasons to reduce or eliminate meat consumption. Conversely, many arguments for eating meat are just appeals to tradition or appeals to nature. The industrial production of meat, which is universally detested, actually supplies the vast majority of meat consumed in the US.
- omeid2 8y agoWhat is a naturalistic fallacy?
- fnovd 8y agoApparently the concept I was referring to is called appeal to nature, not a naturalistic fallacy.
- manmal 8y agoThat’s the most careful vegan pitch I‘ve ever seen, cudos. I‘m all for reducing meat consumption. We don’t need meat every day, and maybe not even every week. Everybody except meat processing companies would be better off. My personal view is that complete meat avoidance will lead to long term health challenges, 5-10y down the road. There‘s too much valid-sounding criticism of the china study to just believe its conclusions. Some low-mercury seafood every now and then does loads for your health.
- mensetmanusman 8y agoOur political and cultural system is largely based on the naturalistic fallicy, one can't blame people too much for following it.
- perfmode 8y agoYour comment is an appeal to tradition meant to justify a different appeal to tradition. How interesting.
- hi41 8y agoI have thought about going vegan too. Do you think it would work in all geographical areas? What about people living in very cold regions of earth. They can’t grow crops throughout the year. They have to subsist by hunting fish and other animals. What do you think?