• iiGxC@slrpnk.net
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    11 months ago

    one aspect of this is that many vegans care about the environment and the victims of animal agriculture. Things are so bad for the animals (we kill trillions per year. That’s insane.) that people are desperate to do or say anything to get people to stop supporting it.

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      11 months ago

      Clearly not, as, humans being as humans are, merelly getting people to just start having vegetarian meals once in a while, reducing meat consumption (which is even a good thing healthwise) and eating more of the less environmentally harmful meats and less of the worst ones, is a far faster path to reduce the Environmental problem and avoiding the kind of push-back reaction that will put many people altogether against the idea.

      The genuine, pragmatic approach to maximizing the Environmental outcomes both on the long- and short-term is the very opposite of how Moralists, driven by their own Moral standpoint and self-righteousness, are abusing broader Environmental concerns to push their morals.

      People putting Environmentalism first aren’t pushing for absolutist “abide by my Morals” pseudo-“solutions”.

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      11 months ago

      Then keep beef. One cow is a hundred meals, one chicken is two. 50 chickens die to save one cow.

      And chickens don’t give milk