Hey - thanks for replying. There is nothing wrong with eating meat (the substance) itself. I used to eat meat. The issue is the cruel and destructive process

Hey - thanks for replying. There is nothing wrong with eating meat (the substance) itself. I used to eat meat. The issue is the cruel and destructive process of the factory farm industry, which supplies most of the meat humans consume. We are not hunter gatherers anymore, humans living in the 'modern world' don't need to kill non-human animals to survive. Now we breed, torture and kill millions and millions of non-human animals and in the process destroy our biosphere [0] So is it logical to continue this practice when we know it's destructive on multiple levels, i.e. on a human, animal and environmental level? The HN community is made up of logical thinkers, so my assumption is that it should be quite simple for this community to make this cognitive leap and see how irrational it is to continue to support the large scale meat industry. And from a humane perspective - if we can choose not to support cruelty - why wouldn't we? Damian Mander - ex special forces guy and founder of International Anti-Poaching Foundation put it best in my view though: https://youtu.be/BUMGBwgGYWw?t=100 https://youtu.be/BUMGBwgGYWw?t=100 I'm also a big fan of Ethan Brown - founder of Beyond Meat. He realized people won't easily give up traditions and one way to shift people away from animal meat is to provide something that's as good or better than animal meat. Would you eat meat that wasn't derived from animals? ---- [0] https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2018-06-01-new-estimates-environme https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2018-06-01-new-estimates-environme... https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/blog/2019/05/natur https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/blog/2019/05/natur...