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This is what will lead me to the full change in diet. I’m at the mitigation and small changes phase. I really don’t have ethics issues with animals as food (farming & hunting meat isn’t bad when suffering is inherent to existence, and to deny this is to deny given order), but we exist in a capitalist hellscape that has zero shame or remorse for exploiting making perverse anything once natural for profit.

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testaccount789@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

farming & hunting meat isn’t bad when suffering is inherent to existence, and to deny this is to deny given order

But it isn’t necessary (at least in most cases), and we have the intelligence to make better decisions simply because they are better.

Unless I misunderstood your comment, “when suffering is inherent to existence” could be used for things like burglaries as well.

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DokPsy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Hard agree. I’m no vegan as a fully understand that a) humans are omnivorous mammals who thrive on a mixed diet and b) eons of selective breeding has created creatures that are designed for food and goods and wouldn’t survive in the wild in their current state without either much suffering or outright death of the species. The monocultures created for large industrialized farms are a blight for the environment as well.

I champion local small scale farms with permaculture and local plants as much as possible while reducing meat consumption in general (at least here, meat is usually at every meal so reducing it to one a day if not every few days would be a huge shift). I also recognize not everyone wants nor cares about going vegetarian or vegan but would accept the reductions in meat use and focusing on buying local if it was made more readily available

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