What's something you used to do/see/say but don't anymore because you don't feel it's right?
What's something you used to do/see/say but don't anymore because you don't feel it's right?
Me personally? I've become much less tolerant of sexist humor. Back in the day, cracking a joke at women's expense was pretty common when I was a teen. As I've matured and become aware to the horrific extent of toxicity and bigotry pervading all tiers of our individualistic society, I've come to see how exclusionarly and objectifying that sort of 'humor' really is, and I regret it deeply.
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I used to eat meat. Don't anymore because the arguments against it are just that fucking strong. Basically unless you advocate for religious supremacy it's hard to make a cohesive argument in favor of meat consumption.
It tastes delicious is a pretty good argument
Heroin feeling really fucking good isn't a good argument for doing it
Lol I was just joking....but I'd say "heroin feeling really fucking good" is the ONLY good reason for doing it. I doubt junkies do heroin n because they like their teeth falling out.
It really is. There are more and better arguments against, but if those aren't a consideration, load me up, fam.
There are times when "ruins the likely short remainder of your life" doesn't matter anymore.
This is the thing. In isolation, enjoyment is a decent argument for anything. But you have to step back and look at the impact of things to see if it's a good or bad thing.
In the case of animal consumption, the pros are:
- it tastes good
- it's convenient
- it means people don't need to change.
(People often add "it's nutritionally necessary" here. I know I did. But that's a myth. You can get everything you need from plants. If that wasn't the case, vegans would be unable to live whole lives without issues, but that's happening)
The cons?
- It causes millions of land animals to be killed every single day, many in a very scary painful way. If you include fish, that jumps up to hundreds of millions
- Animal farming contributes to a big portion of the emissions that are causing climate change.
- It's an extremely inefficient way to produce food for humans. Just think: in order to produce one pound of meat, how much input grains/grass/whatever was there? Why not skip the middleman and eat the plants directly?
- Industrial fishing is destroying our oceans, which also contributes to climate change.
I could go on, but I digress.
But these are the things I came to learn when I went vegan last year. So it came down to a simple question in the end: do the pros outweigh the cons? Do my tastebuds matter enough to contribute to all those problems? The answer was clear enough for me
Context for your second claim. 11% is more precise.
I'd be in favor of a hefty meat tax. But it'd be wildly unpopular.
Thank you for that image. "big portion" is a bit vague, and this does clarify it. To me, 11% is quite a lot of that pie, when you think about:
- Electricity is becoming greener every day due to solar and wind being cheaper than oil and gas
- Transportation is getting greener via EVs
- Industry is getting a focus from people trying to create green concrete and steel
Here's another chart that breaks down that agriculture portion. My understanding is methane is mostly due to cow farts, and nitrous oxide is mostly due to animal urine and fertilizers.
We need to make impacts in all of these sectors, if we're going to fix climate change.
Re: meat tax, we could start by just not subsidizing meat and dairy.
Maybe I woke up dense, but what does religious supremacy have to do with meat consumption?
Animals were put on this earth for use by humans is the religious supremacy take.
I completely forgot about this thought. Religions are so silly, and I don't care which one (Christianity, Islam...).
I have always thought that the best way to be religious is to be on your own, not through a "Church". There is nothing wrong with believing that there is something greater than us.
I'm not a vegetarian, but I try to replace meat with plant based products when possible. I also avoid leather. In modern times I've discovered so many negative things about it. The main thing is livestock farming uses literally ten times more resources and creates ten times more pollution than crop farming. Also the the industrial farming of livestock is amazingly cruel.
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