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> If 1 animal dies and all of humanity can stop eating meat, I'm happy to do that. You still need resources to grow the meat, and many animals will be harmed a
by randomdata 3y ago
> If 1 animal dies and all of humanity can stop eating meat, I'm happy to do that.
You still need resources to grow the meat, and many animals will be harmed and killed in the process of extracting those resources. Probably many more animals than would be harmed using traditional meat raising practices as when humans extract resources we like to strip things bare. Other animals tend to be a lot gentler on habitats.
Of course, if you are only concerned about cute, domesticated animals then you may find success here.
- faangsticle 3y agoI guess you don't use electricity either because of logging and coal mining. What about the internet and all those resources needed for the data centra?
- randomdata 3y agoThose who abstain from activities that are cruel to animals avoid those things, indeed. Of course we won't hear from them here, for obvious reasons.
- faangsticle 3y agoRight, so obviously you're not one of them. No need to virtue signal.
- randomdata 3y agoNobody here is. There is no possibility to virtue signal in this case as the audience will never see it. Sorry that I let out your little secret that animals are harmed in the process of resource extraction. I don't think it was ever much of a secret, though.
- seneca 3y ago> You still need resources to grow the meat, and many animals will be harmed and killed in the process of extracting those resources. This is an absurd stretch of the definition of veganism. If this were accepted, you couldn't call anyone living in any basic form of civilization vegan. It stretches the idea to a point of being useless. No homes allowed, since their material extraction and the construction process harms animals. No bicycles, those factories harmed animals in being constructed. Even Jaina live in buildings.
- randomdata 3y agoVeganism very well may be absurd, but well beyond the discussion taking place. Is there some reason for this tangent?