• BonfireOvDreams@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Math equation says, plant eating requires less land, which means fewer workers exploited. Also I’m pretty sure plant farmers don’t have a 400% turnover rate. It’s almost like even if the math were equal, which it isn’t, killing animals all day is bad for your mental health.

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          1 year ago

          Pretty much how it is.

          I love veganism because it points out how hypocritical and cognitively dissonant people are. Just another fine example of the average 21st century homo sapien being an idiot while thinking they’re smart.

          I don’t expect more at this point.

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        eating a majority of plants involves a significant less amount of human and animal suffering

        I don’t believe you have any proof of this

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      Math equation says, plant eating requires less land, which means fewer workers exploited

      that doesn’t follow

      edit: this user never constructed a cogent argument, but, in the end, devolved into a hypocritcal spluttering rant making unfounded accusations, then announced they were blocking me. just in case you thought they could deal with skepticism.

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        Let me be way way more specific for you than should be necessary. It takes more plants to feed animals than us to feed plants ourselves directly. E.g., a culture of animal product consumption requires more land to be cultivated and maintained to feed those animals before we can even feed the animals to us. This requires more workers to be exploited in the ‘consumption’ industry.

        If you are arguing that ‘well those workers will just be exploited in another business,’ you could make that argument about any change in the workforce where labor requirements are reduced. It’s not relevant if we are focusing strictly on the food system and the amount of workers required within it. If we continue this more broadly though, it’s still not necessarily true if we don’t assume a political/socioeconomic system that puts them in that position. So in a hypothetical far far future, if we for some reason still need human labor to work fields but have outsourced enough jobs to robotics elsewhere so as to have UBI for many citizens without work, it would still require less workers to focus on a plant based diet than a meat eating diet. Frankly, by reducing the amount of workers required in any instance, you inch ever closer to UBI. So if you want to inch closer to a society that doesn’t exploit workers generally, even from that point of view, The Vegans are still approaching this closer than meat eaters.

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          a lot of what is fed to animals is the waste from crops that go to humans first. the same land growing food for animals is the same land growing food for people.

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            My dude you are either being misled or are attempting to mislead. Yes some inedible material from crops we eat is used and in some countries like the US they even feed garbage to pigs.

            If you are taking the ‘nothing gets wasted approach’ it absolutely does, Americans waste 40% of all their food availability for example.

            But to the point they absolutely are clearcutting rainforests and other lands specifically to increase feed production for animals. They absolutely feed a shitload of human edible material to animals grown specifically for animals. I’m too lazy to reiterate statistics to a single person who will see it so for the love of God please research this and do not send me any regenerative animal farming bullshit that does not scale.

            https://ourworldindata.org/land-use

            https://ourworldindata.org/environmental-impacts-of-food

            https://ourworldindata.org/food-ghg-emissions

            https://ourworldindata.org/food-choice-vs-eating-local

            https://ourworldindata.org/less-meat-or-sustainable-meat

            https://ourworldindata.org/environmental-impact-milks

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              every one of those links is just rehashed poore nemecek 2018. I’m dubious about their methodology.

              my dude.

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                I honestly don’t care if you believe in the particulars of their methodology.

                Let me be even MORE straightforward. Feeding animals plant calories (yes, human edible plant calories) to feed yourself animal calories is literally a caloric deficient. You would have to break the laws of thermodynamics to get more calories out of feeding animals plants to eat them rather than feeding yourself those same plants. It is inherently less efficient. Are you about to move the goalpost further and debate the laws of thermodynamics?

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                  1 year ago

                  ruminants can be raised entirely on grazing, and nothing is more efficient than letting an animal live until it’s fat enough and slaughtering it.

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                    1 year ago

                    Are they raised entirely on grazing though? Are you in hypothetical land where people eat 1% of the total meat they currently do eating only animals that exclusively graze?

                    No.