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>"Comparing almond water consumption to cattle water consumption is irresponsible, raising cattle takes orders of magnitude more resources." You say it's irres
by nickff 5y ago
>"Comparing almond water consumption to cattle water consumption is irresponsible, raising cattle takes orders of magnitude more resources."
You say it's irresponsible to compare the two, then immediately proceed to do it!
Perhaps you meant to say that it was irresponsible to imply they were similar? In any case, rational decision-making requires comparing options, and reactions of disgust are generally unproductive, both for thinking and for debating.
- femiagbabiaka 5y agois saying a comparison is irresponsible the same as disgust? is every comparison valid? what's more unproductive, pure pedantry, or disagreeing and then sharing information? who is really showing disgust? "comparison of almond water consumption vs. cattle water consumption for the purposes of justifying the elimination of one or the other is irresponsible, because their impact on the environment (and in fact, the California water supply) is incomparable, and seriously comparing the two after realising this fact would mean that you are misunderstanding the statistics or purposefully telling half-truths. The only responsible version of this argument, one that seeks to limit the impact of agriculture on the water supplies of states like California, would be one that proposes that we need to reduce or eliminate or severely reduce both." hope this more pedantically phrased version helps :)