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RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 11 months agoI don’t like hurting animals. If one believes we really are a special species because of things like our innate curiosity, I think you’ll understand the interesting quest to try to eat without hurting anyone/thing.
Why? Better, why not?
- Consider how difficult “getting off this rock” is with live food onboard. Plants can directly feed humans with limited processing. With some processing, you can make tasty high protein burgers. Admittedly, still not nutritionally the same as beef, but compensable in other ways.
- We’re a concious species (mostly), why not try to avoid hurting our fellow companions in this barren wasteland called space? Who else do we have in the known universe?
I still eat eggs & cheese. Perhaps a day will come where I don’t need those either. I hope you’ll be curious enough to try some alternatives too.
voluble@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’ve read good moral arguments for a veganism. I think it’s the right thing to do when it comes to diet. For what it’s worth, this isn’t really a discussion about diet.
It isn’t a decision between a lentil burger and a beef burger, this is an animal resource that can assist in saving human lives. There are other clotting factors used in medicine, and that’s great, let’s use and develop those. But suppose something more lethal and dangerous than COVID comes along, and vaccines need to be produced quickly and globally. I think it would be foolish to wince if we needed to take crab blood to roll out a program that would save human lives.
RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Nothing wrong with wincing, and trying to keep the crabs alive as well. Sure, we gotta live too.
But we gotta degrow a bit. As a species, humanity is running the planet a little too close to the redline, to put it mildly.
Nothing is blank and white, and the older I get, the more shades I see. We can, should, and will strive for better.