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There is more to eating meat than supporting industrial "murder". And to be frank, industrial agriculture ain't much better for animals and the Earth. One can
by sph 3y ago
There is more to eating meat than supporting industrial "murder". And to be frank, industrial agriculture ain't much better for animals and the Earth.
One can reduce their impact on this planet without becoming a (hypocrite) zealot, unless you can convince me you don't have a car, avoid any form of plastics, avoid pesticides, avoid processed vegan food, do not import avocadoes, natto and tofu from overseas etc.
We can both play this game, or we can be just a little more pragmatic and a little less dogmatic.
- moonmusick 3y agoAh yes, the ideal solution fallacy.
- hhshhhhjjjd 3y agoIt seems like you're angrily describing an ideal that you would be ecstatic to achieve, but have no confidence you could ever reach. Just the fact that you _know_ what is hypocrisy (e.g. imported avocados) is a move in the right direction. Without a sense of the ideal, how could you be pragmatic? I think there will always be a vanguard of humanity that is willing to push towards the ideal -- that drags the rest of us pragmatists kicking and screaming into the future.
- thinkingtoilet 3y ago> There is more to eating meat than supporting industrial "murder". 99% of the meat grown in America comes from factory foods. Despite this, every time the horrible treatment of animals is brought up online all of a sudden everyone is getting their meat from farms where the cows get a message twice a day. Statistically, there isn't much more. I still eat meat, very little these days, but lets be honest about it. Your final 'whataboutisms' don't help either. None of that matters. The truth about meat in America, at least, is undeniable.
- DarkNova6 3y agoI don't reside in the US, but I highly doubt it is 99%. There are always ways of getting organic or poultry food. At the very least in the EU there is no shortage of it and the legal restrictions are strictly enforced. Anyway, you are doing yourself a favour not ingesting mass-production. There is a very very good reason virtually no country wants to import US-chicken.
- wyre 3y agoMight not be literally 99% but it is close. You can’t find organic meat at restaurants and the price of organic meat at the grocery reserves it for special occasions or for people with enough disposable income (1%) to afford it.