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Not trying to equate pigs to humans people at all - however, see this as a parable: If these were people being tortured to death, would you say that monetarily

Not trying to equate pigs to humans people at all - however, see this as a parable: If these were people being tortured to death, would you say that monetarily incentivizing torturers to move away from this model is the only real way? It makes no sense to me. If it's not illegal, it should be. Soon.

Melting_Harps 6y ago
> It makes no sense to me. If it's not illegal, it should be. Soon. It won't be though, most of my activism has been for farmer's rights and if you think petitioning government to go against its corporate lobbyists is not just realistic but not a total waste of time you don't understand the paradigm you're talking about. That effort is better spent to more productive ends: Food Education is key, as is story telling; just look at the explosion of foodies and Influencers on Social Media in the last 10 years, specifically because of programs from Anthony Bouradain and Chef's table. And my personal favorite Dotchi no Ryouri from Japan, which is an awesome model that I hope gets resurrected. Hell, many of my fellow cooks, be it in Europe or the US were drawn to culinary because the original Iron Chef from Japan which had more reverence for the ingredients and story telling than anything that came before it. We all wanted to do something that lived up to that narrative. The adage: 'you only win by creating a better paradigm' best sums up this situation. Not waiting for regulators and legislation to innovate should resonate deeply amongst fellow tech workers destined to want to disrupt the monoliths. The Truth is, Agriculture, and the Food Industry as a whole, is the proverbial Goliath and the organic/permaculture/Biodynamic farmers are the David. Its time more people realized that and acted accordingly: don't like a Law? Use your only real vote you have in the West (money) to negate it, eventually this will lead to things like Marijuana being decriminalized and regulated by individual States in defiance to the Federal Government, and Hemp going from a schedule 1 drug to being 50 state legal and having CBD products found at your local Safeway and on Amazon right now. I should know, I was there and active in that space for both of those things in the US. Lastly, livestock are not Humans; we are doing an unnatural (all Agriculture is) process, the best we can do is follow cruel-free models that enhance the animal's life that results in an amazing end product. Asking for anything more is literately impossible. And making that analogy to Humans takes us into murky waters I'd rather not venture, as its more philosophical, perhaps even bordering on sophism.

Melting_Harps 6y ago

> It makes no sense to me. If it's not illegal, it should be. Soon. It won't be though, most of my activism has been for farmer's rights and if you think petitioning government to go against its corporate lobbyists is not just realistic but not a total waste of time you don't understand the paradigm you're talking about. That effort is better spent to more productive ends: Food Education is key, as is story telling; just look at the explosion of foodies and Influencers on Social Media in the last 10 years, specifically because of programs from Anthony Bouradain and Chef's table. And my personal favorite Dotchi no Ryouri from Japan, which is an awesome model that I hope gets resurrected. Hell, many of my fellow cooks, be it in Europe or the US were drawn to culinary because the original Iron Chef from Japan which had more reverence for the ingredients and story telling than anything that came before it. We all wanted to do something that lived up to that narrative. The adage: 'you only win by creating a better paradigm' best sums up this situation. Not waiting for regulators and legislation to innovate should resonate deeply amongst fellow tech workers destined to want to disrupt the monoliths. The Truth is, Agriculture, and the Food Industry as a whole, is the proverbial Goliath and the organic/permaculture/Biodynamic farmers are the David. Its time more people realized that and acted accordingly: don't like a Law? Use your only real vote you have in the West (money) to negate it, eventually this will lead to things like Marijuana being decriminalized and regulated by individual States in defiance to the Federal Government, and Hemp going from a schedule 1 drug to being 50 state legal and having CBD products found at your local Safeway and on Amazon right now. I should know, I was there and active in that space for both of those things in the US. Lastly, livestock are not Humans; we are doing an unnatural (all Agriculture is) process, the best we can do is follow cruel-free models that enhance the animal's life that results in an amazing end product. Asking for anything more is literately impossible. And making that analogy to Humans takes us into murky waters I'd rather not venture, as its more philosophical, perhaps even bordering on sophism.