We keep 10,000 chickens in a single huge building whose floor is literally layers of their old shit, give them just enough room to stand there and not move around, and leave it there without any environmental controls through the hottest days of the year. What do you mean disease is prevalent?
Don't forget that we also feed the cows the chicken shit to cut costs!
Then, when you try to legislate any kind of standard for humane livestock treatment, the farmers throw a hissy fit and block all the roads with their tractors.
Also featuring angry people because of a possible increase in price for meat/dairy.
Was that due to animal welfare regulations? Thought it had to do with regulations favoring mega farms and forcing small farms to stop.
It's because of all kinds of things in different places
It wasn't. Hes being deliberately deliberately disingenuous
It's not possible to produce the amount of meat needed to feed our massive population while treating animals humanely.
There are really two options to deal with this:
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Most humans in the world become vegan -- sounds great but it's not gonna happen
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Reduce our population to sustainable numbers (by eliminating the driver of the population explosion, i.e. fossil energy) -- maybe also not gonna happen
Edit: What (do I think) will happen? We'll continue as we are now as hundreds of billions of animals are tortured until our civilization collapses. This will happen because we were all brought up under a state and told that defending ourselves, our communities, our animals, is wrong and illegal.
False dichotomy here. Americans could certainly reduce their intake of meat without going full vegan. Regulations could be created to treat livestock more humanely without completely eliminating factory farming, which yes would increase prices, which would probably also reduce meat consumption somewhat. Also population growth within the US has dropped off quite a bit and is projected to further decline.
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also "meat eaters: 😲"
But but there is no ethical consumption under capitalism so that means I shouldn't even try
Meat eaters: 😲🍗🤤😫💦
also "Me when I see a post critical of the meet industry getting upvotes: 😲"
As a meat eater, it's shit like this which is why I've been buying more vegetarian shit. Every week there's a new food recall. People are getting real sick and dying.
Same. Me too. When i buy meat, then it's only organic and the best ethical treatment I can find. And also waaaaaay less in general. It just became bad in every sense of way and plant-based stuff has gotten so much better over the last 3 decades.
Only thing that pisses me off is that the food my food eats is even more expensive for no apparent reason (edit: yes ofc i know the socio-economic reasons. As a consumer i just don't care. That's what i meant)
Same here. I tried out blackbean burgers, plant-based hot dogs, tofu and almond milk in my last couple of grocery runs, just to see what's up. Turns out I really like tofu as a substitute for ground beef, and the veggie dogs tasted just like all beef franks to me. And none of these things were any more expensive than meat, so that's also a big plus.
If you can find some TVP in the shape of a steak, that stuff is also insane to me.
Like, I'm kind of not qualified to actually compare it to a steak, but my body instantly gave me that vegetarian gag reflex when I first had it, because it has that same chewiness.And yeah, it's really cheap. You can just have it in your cupboard for an eternity. And to prepare it, you just boil it in salt water / stock for a few minutes, press out the water and throw it into a hot pan to sear it like a steak.
The Maillard reaction does its thing and somehow this chunk of goddamn defatted soy beans does not taste healthy anymore.
As an ex meat eater, this is what made me eventually go vegan
Yeah, okay buddy. I suppose next you're gonna tell me climate change is real, huh?
This should read as:
Regulators: allows the meat industry to put creatures in the filthiest conditions possible
disease starts spreading and affecting the industry
Regulators: 😧
More like:
Meat industry: lobbies regulators and focuses on profits above all else despite every warning against it
disease starts spreading and affecting the industry
Meat industry: 😮
This is spot on. The meat industry for years has been trusted because of regulation. The moment you take away regulation you take away trust and start a race to the bottom. Ask any of these other deregulated industries:
-News and Television -Deregulated in the 90s
-Boeing and commercial aircraft - Merged unchallenged in the 90s and the FAA allowed "self reporting"
-Banks - Deregulated in the 90s.
This really should read as:
Republicans defund regulation budgets to appease meat producers' donations.
Regulators: "there's three of us"
Meat producers: "we have no incentive to follow existing laws and standards which were lax as hell to begin with."
You mean to tell me that industries sacrifice long term consequences for short term profit?!
shockes Pikachu face
Meat industry: have to ramp up production because fucking idiotic people continue to breed uncontrollably and unsustanably
disease starts spreading and affecting the industry
Smug-ass cultist vegans: MuSt Be ThE mEaT eAtErS!!!1 Come on, my wife Moon Seashell, we need to get you pregnant again because our 14 malnourished kids isn't enough!
I love how people love to rag on vegans talking about veganism unprovoked.
Those damn vegans always not even being part of the conversation yet! Let's make fun of them trying to save the planet so they can show up and we can talk about how self-righteous they are.
True, increased demand for meat is one of the driving factors of ecological malpractise as it's found in the meat industry.
Plant based diets and a lifestyle free of animal products provide a more sustainable and ecologically beneficial alternative. As does reducing the overall world population of course.
A lifetime free of animal products is not sustainable. Humans need at least some meat to survive. The average person eats too much which isn't helping. Advocating a vegan (or even vegetarian) diet is ignoring science and how our bodies function. It causes long-term, serious harm to people who do not supplement their diet with at least some meat.
Pure veganism is a cult that ignores science, diet, and common sense. Nothing wrong with eating vegan meals (I love them) but completely cutting out meat is bad for you.
What the fuck is this self-important bullshit.
Dude, if you want to kill her, fine, whatever, but we're putting your ass in prison.
As always, nobody could have seen this coming. Of course.
Is mad cow coming back?
Bird flu (specifically H5N1) has notably been spreading quite quickly in cows rights now. It's been crossing between species much more than it has in the past
1 in 5 samples of pasteurized milk had bird flu virus fragments
