Comment on This Apple Lie at the grocery store

Mwa@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  The better question is - what’s the ethical alternative? Every other plant oil uses far more land to grow

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  • ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    You seem very insistent on ignoring the fact that different kinds of land have different levels of environmental impact when it comes to farming.

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    • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Does that make up for 10x the land usage?

      Everybody else seems very insistent on ignoring the different yields of the various plant oils.

      Also, as far as I’m concerned it’s just the latest stage of colonialism. First we got exploited by western powers, now we get told we can’t develop our countries. Never mind Europe having destroyed all their wilderness in the process of industrialisation, we’ve somehow been designated the global nature reserve.

      You want the land to be left alone? Pay us. No? Are we still just a colony of the west then?

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      • ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Most people consider learning from the previous mistakes of others to be a virtue and a sign of intelligence.

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  • Mwa@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    idk, but i think if there was a more ethical alternative most companies would switch to that

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    • SGforce@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      No company gives a fuck about ethics. They aren’t people. Some people at a company might, but they would have to overwhelm the profit motive. That’s exceptionally rare.

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    • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Precisely, there aren’t really any practical options, despite the numerous complaints.

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