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Less animals stand to die at the blades of the harvester when one chooses to stop eating animals altogether. You can't eliminate suffering, but you can take act
by dqv 5y ago
Less animals stand to die at the blades of the harvester when one chooses to stop eating animals altogether. You can't eliminate suffering, but you can take active measures to reduce it.
- sidlls 5y agoOne can also choose to consume meat that is not treated with cruelty. It’s more expensive, but does exist. The “less violence” argument doesn’t hold sway with some. That’s a purely subjective assessment that not everyone agrees with. For example, I don’t consider the slaughter of animals for food to be particularly more violent than the wholesale shredding of plant fibers at harvest.
- andyana 5y agoCuriously, where would you draw the line for violence?
- alecst 5y ago> I don’t consider the slaughter of animals for food to be particularly more violent than the wholesale shredding of plant fibers at harvest You probably think of "violence" differently than most people then.
- sweetheart 5y agoThere is no such thing as slaughter without cruelty. The animals do not want to die, and they are killed. That is _always_ cruel.
- sidlls 5y agoThere is such a thing, for example the slaughtering of an animal for food.
- sweetheart 5y agoIf you watch the footage of pigs being half-stunned, throats slit, and then drowning in a vat of hot blood, and can earnestly tell me you don't see that as cruel, I promise you I will never make that argument again.
- sidlls 5y agoAs if that were the only way to slaughter an animal.
- sweetheart 5y agoIt’s how virtually all factory farms do it, which is the vast vast majority of meat that human beings eat. We should make sure we’re comfortable with it before saying it’s humane.
- King-Aaron 5y agoPlants don't want to die either, and they do their best to evolve specifically to avoid death.
- spicymaki 5y agoPersonally I would love to have a device that would pull carbon out of the air and produce proteins. We are not there yet, so plants are the next best thing.
- daddylongstroke 5y agoYou don't need a device. It already exists, and has existed for hundreds of thousands of years. It's the ruminant-grass-soil-microbe energy cycle.
- _3u10 5y agoSuicidal behavior in humans and other animals suggests that this is not always true.
- xenihn 5y agoI think we'll eventually be able to recreate "meat" that is equal to or even better than meat that came from an actual animal. We'll reach a point where "fake" meat tastes better, is healthier for you, and, most importantly of all, is more profitable.