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Where do you guys come up with this stuff? When I was a teen in Appalachia, I butchered dozens of chickens a day, by hand, during canning season.

ethanbond 3y ago
I think you lost the thread. The claim was factory farming doesn’t change the volume of meat consumption and production, only the geographic location of it. It is economically not viable for every American family to produce and kill their own 2lb of (currently, on average) consumed meat per day. That is why we have factory farming and why it dominates our food supply: economies of scale. The lack of these economies is why you objectively and in actual fact do not see the same scale of meat consumption in less industrialized food systems. It has nothing to do with whether it’s physically or psychologically possible to kill x chickens per day.
- mcpackieh 3y ago
  I think you've lost track of the difference between other people and yourself. The words you're using seem to talk about how other people feel, but you're actually talking about how you feel and assuming that any difference between the two is rooted in ignorance. > "your kids’ reaction" Maybe this should be "my reaction as a kid", since you don't know that person's kids. > "The emotions one feels" Should be "the emotions I feel" > "If people had to see their livestock suffer, they would make a different calculation" Should probably be "seeing it changed how I feel". People are more than the sum of our experiences, two people raised in the same environment with the same kind of experiences can have completely divergent values. Therefore it's wrong to assume that people would share your values if they had your experiences. In the case of meat eating particularly this should be obvious; the reality is that most people exposed to the industry, either for the first time as adults or as kids, don't turn vegetarian.
  - ethanbond 3y ago
    Go run the experiments! I’m putting my bet on what those experiments would show, which is people’s consumption patterns would be adversely impacted by more in-depth knowledge of the food supply chain. This is also where meat producers place their bets and why they fight tooth and nail against transparency within their industry.
- Exoristos 3y ago
  I'm sorry -- how expensive do you think chickens are? In fact, if everyone had them, they'd most likely be freely shared. You seem very out of touch with your own species.
  - ethanbond 3y ago
    Yet just very mysteriously… people don’t all have chickens, nor do they give them away for free… almost as if it’s not worth the time/money/space…

ethanbond 3y ago

I think you lost the thread. The claim was factory farming doesn’t change the volume of meat consumption and production, only the geographic location of it. It is economically not viable for every American family to produce and kill their own 2lb of (currently, on average) consumed meat per day. That is why we have factory farming and why it dominates our food supply: economies of scale. The lack of these economies is why you objectively and in actual fact do not see the same scale of meat consumption in less industrialized food systems. It has nothing to do with whether it’s physically or psychologically possible to kill x chickens per day.

mcpackieh 3y ago
I think you've lost track of the difference between other people and yourself. The words you're using seem to talk about how other people feel, but you're actually talking about how you feel and assuming that any difference between the two is rooted in ignorance. > "your kids’ reaction" Maybe this should be "my reaction as a kid", since you don't know that person's kids. > "The emotions one feels" Should be "the emotions I feel" > "If people had to see their livestock suffer, they would make a different calculation" Should probably be "seeing it changed how I feel". People are more than the sum of our experiences, two people raised in the same environment with the same kind of experiences can have completely divergent values. Therefore it's wrong to assume that people would share your values if they had your experiences. In the case of meat eating particularly this should be obvious; the reality is that most people exposed to the industry, either for the first time as adults or as kids, don't turn vegetarian.
- ethanbond 3y ago
  Go run the experiments! I’m putting my bet on what those experiments would show, which is people’s consumption patterns would be adversely impacted by more in-depth knowledge of the food supply chain. This is also where meat producers place their bets and why they fight tooth and nail against transparency within their industry.
Exoristos 3y ago
I'm sorry -- how expensive do you think chickens are? In fact, if everyone had them, they'd most likely be freely shared. You seem very out of touch with your own species.
- ethanbond 3y ago
  Yet just very mysteriously… people don’t all have chickens, nor do they give them away for free… almost as if it’s not worth the time/money/space…