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Our descendants are gonna look at horror at how we have been capturing, breeding, torturing and then killing sentient animals, for the most part completely unne
by addicted 2y ago
Our descendants are gonna look at horror at how we have been capturing, breeding, torturing and then killing sentient animals, for the most part completely unnecessarily.
80bn land animals are bred and killed annually for food alone. Completely unnecessarily.
- musicale 2y agoI think "Star Trek" (fictitious 22nd-24th century?) may have had that perspective. We may not have food replicators yet but artificial and lab-grown meat seem to be happening. And we're already building AI systems that rely on an energy supply rather than traditional food. There are probably many popular 21st century practices that will not age well (along with obviously bad practices that may very well persist.) As a mundane example, lead pipes for water[1] seem like a bad idea (ask the Romans), but drinking out of plastic containers also seems bad[2]. [1] https://www.epa.gov/ground-water-and-drinking-water/basic-information-about-lead-drinking-water https://www.epa.gov/ground-water-and-drinking-water/basic-in... [2] https://www.npr.org/2024/01/10/1223730333/bottled-water-plastic-microplastic-nanoplastic-study https://www.npr.org/2024/01/10/1223730333/bottled-water-plas...