4lan
@4lan@lemmy.world
- Comment on Holiday Decoration 2024 6 months ago:
It’s that time of year to prove you love your family by spending money
- Comment on Here as well 6 months ago:
according to BMI bodybuilders are morbidly obese lol
- Comment on I've been wondering for some time 7 months ago:
The wealth inequality in America today is worse than France pre-revolution.
We are long overdue, bring out the guillotines
- Comment on Roman numerals, man... so close! 8 months ago:
2 is my favorite letter
- Comment on Why is the consumption of Meat considered bad 10 months ago:
It’s funny how nowadays when a cow eats what is naturally supposed to eat we charge double price for it and consider it some specialty. It’s no wonder they have to jack them up with hormones.
- Comment on Why is the consumption of Meat considered bad 10 months ago:
So we shouldn’t reduce the problem on one front because we can’t get rid of it completely?
Without agriculture we would all starve, you can’t say the same for beef.
Why not reduce the damage that agriculture causes AND reduce the impact and scale of beef production?
- Comment on Why is the consumption of Meat considered bad 10 months ago:
Alright, we are talking right past each other. Have a good one
- Comment on Why is the consumption of Meat considered bad 10 months ago:
That’s a lot of rationalization with no facts to back it up.
I’m getting a “well ackchually” vibe from your comment. If I put a mouse on the ground next to a flower and told you to stomp one of them to death, You would be comfortable with either option equally?
Yes plants respond to negative stimuli, that doesn’t imply suffering on the level of a conscious being.
You’re making a lot of assumptions about my beliefs in your comment. I do not believe any animal has more right to life than any other animal. With that said if you are in the woods trying to survive like our ancestors then your biological needs take priority, you can’t survive on plants in winter. The thing is that is not our reality. We are wolfing down red meat giving ourselves colon cancer needlessly. Trading suffering for joy, not suffering for survival
- Comment on Why is the consumption of Meat considered bad 10 months ago:
If we stopped eating meat we would have 50% more land for farming human food than we currently do (we currently use 33% of cropland for feed alone). Raising cattle is not efficient at all, it is a waste of energy and land and water.
It’s not like the land we used to grow the feed we’ll just evaporate. This is why so much lobbying has gone into pushing the narrative that we all need to eat a ton of red meat.
- Comment on Why is the consumption of Meat considered bad 10 months ago:
I’m not arguing that we should eat animal feed, but rather use that land to grow food for humans
- Comment on Why is the consumption of Meat considered bad 10 months ago:
I’ve heard this tired argument that plants and sentient mammals have the same capacity for suffering so many times. I think it is a disingenuous way of excusing the suffering your choices support.
A plant does not grieve when it’s offspring is removed from it. It does not have fear, or joy. Plants don’t play with each other and bond.
Yes. They communicate, and react to stimuli. So does a computer, but neither are sentient
- Comment on Why is the consumption of Meat considered bad 10 months ago:
Which applies even more to meat production. You have to grow massive amounts to feed livestock, more than if we just grew and ate the food directly.