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Vegetarian here and can only agree. I love the flavor of meat and would eat it but in my view the meat industry is a dystopian nightmare that I'm sure our decen
by estaseuropano 5y ago
Vegetarian here and can only agree. I love the flavor of meat and would eat it but in my view the meat industry is a dystopian nightmare that I'm sure our decendents will look upon with the same horror as we have when we look at our ancestors' acceptance of slavery and serfdom. I believe anyone who eats meat chooses to close their eyes to this suffering for a minor gain in pleasure - I can't make this choice for myself but I have to accept that others do so.
But to argue that fig wasps or bees are being exploited is free of reason. You can't till the fields without killing worms, you can't harvest grain without death of rabbits or mice living between the plants (but you CAN reduce pesticides and do less harm to insect life and the environment). You can't even make apple juice without an occasional worm in there. You also can't live in a modern city without exterminators killing mice, rats, pigeons, ducks, cockroaches, etc. You can't maintain a healthy forest without either wolf or man killing some of the deer.
The radials that can't see nuance or reality are not helping anyone.
- a0-prw 5y ago> but in my view the meat industry is a dystopian nightmare 100% agreement there. I worked in an abbatoir (pigs) for 10 years. It's a horror show for the animals AND the workers. I am not vegetarian, but I only buy organic and/or free range meat now. I won't touch anything that goes through the industrial killing machine.
- BitwiseFool 5y agoI predict that if/when lab grown meat becomes commercially viable and normalized, our descendants are going to look back at us as immoral savages for factory farming and turning a blind eye to animal suffering. I'm not even a vegetarian and I recognize the hypocrisy in "caring about animals" but still wanting to eat meat.