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The farms that grow the inputs to your lab goo will have permits to shoot wild animals on these properties… it’s called a “block permit” and farmers in my area
by jtdev 5y ago
The farms that grow the inputs to your lab goo will have permits to shoot wild animals on these properties… it’s called a “block permit” and farmers in my area are known to kill so many deer through these permits that bulldozers are needed to handle the disposal/burial of the masses of animals they kill… and why do they do this? Because feeding humans is actually a rather important task.
Step off the concrete sometime… the solutions to the worlds problems and injustices are often far more complex and nuanced than what is proposed by the modern left.
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- sinsterizme 5y agoThe scale of these "block permit" killings and the amount of suffering this would cause is incomparable to industrial farming. This is not worth worrying about
- jtdev 5y agoOkay, how do you feel about monocultures of soybean doused in glyphosate and multi-annual applications of synthetic fertilizers (which create radioactive leachate as a manufacturing byproduct)?
- nobodyknowsyoda 5y agoObviously not great, therefore doing less of it holistically is useful. You do realize most of that soy goes to feeding livestock...
- jtdev 5y agoThe primary ingredients in the fake meats being proselytized are plant proteins… meaning massive monocultures, pesticide and herbicide application, fertilizer application and manufacturing, and decimation of many thousands of acres of natural ecosystems. This doesn’t seem like a clear net positive change to me.
- sinsterizme 5y agoI would be interested to hear a comparison on this, but from what I’ve heard the resources that go into growing and feeding livestock is orders of magnitude more intensive than a plant based meal. I honestly don’t know if that would change with something like beyond but I would highly doubt it
- jtdev 5y agoDefine “intensive” in this context. Do you realize that much of American beef cattle actually graze on natural grasses for most of their lives… in largely natural settings that support complex natural ecosystem? That will not be the case for “Beyond/Impossible/Soylent” burgers; they will be composed of plant proteins that require toxic monocultures to produce.
- berkes 5y agoYou need 15 such farms to create the food for 1 equivalent of beef. So the argument would be for any those goo-creating farms, because we need far less of them, than we need when creating goo that feeds cows which we then eat.