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Because not everyone shares your preference and/or discipline for plants. Lab grown meat doesn't require a planetary scale realignment of moral values and habit
by energy123 2mo ago
Because not everyone shares your preference and/or discipline for plants. Lab grown meat doesn't require a planetary scale realignment of moral values and habits.
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- soulofmischief 2mo agoSome might argue that ignorance or apathy doesn't reduce someone's participation as a consumer in a very inhumane and climate-wrecking meat industry down to simply "preference". I do agree it's unrealistic to expect 8 billion people to change their habits overnight, but we are going to see a massive prisoner's dilemma as resources dwindle until that 8 billion number starts falling.
- energy123 2mo agoThat's a moral judgement about what words to use that has no bearing on causality. Incentives are never a valid justification but they are almost always an explanation. We should care about explanations when trying to solve problems.
- soulofmischief 2mo agoI agree, designing institutions around incentives is key. But the discussion around factory farms can shaped around ethics and not morals, and I had taken the opportunity to point out that "preference" reads as unwarranted euphemism in the face of the brutality of modern factory farming, and downplays the agency of the individual as a participant. Past that, we are in full agreement that it's more fruitful to solve the problem rather than sit around making judgements.
- account42 2mo ago> Lab grown meat doesn't require a planetary scale realignment of moral values and habits. It absolutely does until it's actually something normal people call "meat" which is still a long long way off.
- williamdclt 2mo agohabits, no. But difficult argument to make that lab-grown meat requires _less_ of a "moral value realignment" than plant-based food?