QuaffPotions
@QuaffPotions@lemmy.world
- Comment on That gourmet luxury blend... 8 months ago:
Oh look, typical carnist cliché is getting offended because someone criticized the weird shit you do.
I didn’t see anyone else pointing out how bizarre it is to fetishize bee puke.
And people hate vegans because most people want to believe they’re at least “pretty good people”, and the very presence of a vegan challenges that belief. If you’re offended, maybe it’s time to look in the mirror.
- Comment on That gourmet luxury blend... 8 months ago:
What’s unhinged is people who think they have the right to confine, torture, exploit, rape, murder, and devour the flesh and/or secretions of other animals just because they’re different.
Yeah I get that bugs are easy to dismiss because they’re tiny, often obnoxious and treated like a nuisance, and less intelligent than other animals. But we’re still talking about living beings who have their own subjective experience of life, individuality, and their own agenda. Like all animals they came into this life with us, not for us.
Commodifying living beings is unhinged. And even ignoring the moral side of things, having a preference for bee vomit is unhinged.
- Comment on That gourmet luxury blend... 8 months ago:
The point is that virtually anything is a better alternative to honey.
- Comment on That gourmet luxury blend... 8 months ago:
ITT: a bunch of stolen bee vomit fetishists. Why pay so much money for something weird, gross, and every bit as unhealthy as sugar and corn syrup? Maple syrup (while also unhealthy) tastes way better. And date sugar, whole blended dates, or molasses are healthier alternatives.
- Comment on This 10 months ago:
Are you a human being, or a mechanistic formal debate bot? I’m informing you on a complex subject matter with many important interrelated issues that range everywhere from ethics, to personal health (yes that animal flesh is killing you), to environmental issues, and even the grave risk of pandemic potential.
Your narrowmindedness is a symptom of typical carnist mental gymnastics.
- Comment on This 10 months ago:
Where are you even getting this nonsense about using soybean oil waste to make feed? Where does it say that is what’s happening?
- Comment on This 10 months ago:
That makes no sense. Every part of a soybean can be made for human uses - textured vegetable protein (tvp) is de-fatted soy, for example. 7% of soy is going for human consumption, because that’s how much demand there is for it. Just as the vast majority of soy production is being used to raise animals for food, because that’s how the economics works. You can see the cited study and more in greater detail in this article - which also shows how cattle farming is in and of itself the single largest driver of Amazon deforestation.
And this article is a primer on feed conversion ratios, which demonstrates why eating plants directly will always be fundamentally more efficient and better for the environment than raising animals for food ever can be.
- Comment on This 10 months ago:
Would you care to elaborate on what’s misleading about these statistics?
- Comment on This 10 months ago:
This isn’t formal debate school. Welcome to the real internet.
- Comment on This 10 months ago:
Yes, and odds are they are asking as a way to bring up the idea of how many animals are killed in order to harvest plant crops. If you had bothered to go to the link, it would have at least somewhat answered your question because the short version is: fundamentally, significantly less than the amount of animals killed to produce meat.
All it takes is to think it through. If harvesting crops kills a lot of animals (which as the link shows, is already significantly less than some assholes made it up to be), then raising animals for food automatically kills even more animals because it takes way more crops to feed the animals that are raised for meat or dairy, than it takes to just feed humans directly.
- Comment on This 10 months ago:
If you’re referring to crop deaths, you should know that nonsense has been so thoroughly debunked that anyone should feel embarrassed to be perpetuating that lie still.
- Comment on Very basic expectations 10 months ago:
I strongly want to erase the idea that soda is the beverage of gamers. Nerds are getting older now. We need to think about our blood sugar, cholesterol levels, and arthritis.
Tea, (unsweetened) coffee, and green smoothies are now the official drinks of gamers.
- Comment on This 10 months ago:
How many burgers were served? Multiply that by a hundred to get an estimate of how many innocent cows were slaughtered for this circus. But sure, it being cheap food is the thing to complain about.
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