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Like most things, just do it and you'll get used to it. The satisfaction might be due to culturally being raise in a place that eats meat. > I would literally
by soyftware 5y ago
Like most things, just do it and you'll get used to it. The satisfaction might be due to culturally being raise in a place that eats meat.
> I would literally pay double not to cause an animal to suffer ever again.
Think of it this way. It's not about _you_ it's about the _animals_ suffering. It's a selfless thing to do and fairly simple. Most foods are not animals they're plants! It gets easier.
- lyjackal 5y agoThis zoomed in view of a single animals suffering seems short sighted to me. Sure, factory farms are terrible, but farm animals (cows, chickens, sheep, goats, etc.) in general have grown up symbiotically with humans. Replacing a system where we collaborate with nature to one where we're dependent on a corporate lab grown product does not seem like it's being more integrated with, or compassionate to nature.
- qolop 5y ago> Replacing a system where we collaborate with nature to one where we're dependent on a corporate lab grown product does not seem like it's being more integrated with, or compassionate to nature. Are you really saying that slaughtering animals is more "compassionate" than growing meat synthetically? And are you saying that the massive environmental cost of factory farms makes it more "integrated" with nature? It's like you're deliberately trying to attach a negative connotation to synthetic meat by using the words "corporate lab". Literally all first world amenities originate in a corporate lab! Are you suggesting we stop taking COVID vaccines because they were developed in Pfizer's corporate lab? What do you propose we do instead to curb the world's desire to eat meat? You say "factory farms are terrible". Yes they are! And synthetic meat is the only way factory farms will go away.
- lyjackal 5y agoSorry, I think you misinterpreted what I was saying. Synthetic meat seems morally better than a factory farm, however I don't think the choice is between factory farms and synthetic meat. I'm saying it would be better to to cultivate an approach where we collaborate with nature via humane farms and moderated consumption. I don't have any economic answers, however I think the vegan vision of a human race separate from nature is very scary, and not separate from one where we eradicate the natural world through industrialization.
- wumpus 5y agoI've never met a vegan who had the vision of a human race separate from nature.