• ██████████@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    people ate meat for MILLIONS OF YEARS with negligible global warming effect from the animals

    vegans going start blaming the Assyrianz for inventing husbandry before blaming Exxon Mobile BP

    like dude pick your battles

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      1 year ago

      People did not consume the amount of meat they do today. Meat used to be a serious luxury most people couldn’t afford at all.

      You should educate yourself instead of knee jerk reacting to bash on vegans.

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        So if we just stop subsidizing it so ridiculously it should go way down to sustainable levels then right?

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          Certainly if we also stop indirect subsidies like the failure to internalize externalities. Include the climate damage caused in the price tag, and people will love a veggy curry instead.

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        I am a vegan bro I hate meet Because I don’t like the taste. I hate vegans trying to turn a food PREFERENCE into a snobbery high horse thing. dude eating Factory Farm Veggies is just as bad if not worse (see Monsanto)

        Maybe Boop A Pipeline if you are truly morally superior

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          That’s nice. I’m not vegan, actually, and I encourage veganism/vegetarianism but don’t consider eating meat a moral failure.

          You are making prejudice assumptions and being a bit of a dick about it which is ironic since your whole supposed complaint is some fantasy vegan that fits the stereotype in your head (probably placed there by meat industry propaganda).

          Also, factory farmed veggies are obviously not as bad as the meat, that’s just you being a silly twat.

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          Veganism is not a food preference, you are not vegan.

          Veganism is a stance to avoid harming non-human animals.

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      That’s just it. It is about picking battles.

      We are at (actually well past but…) the tipping point. Climate change is happening and we are going to see sea levels rise in our lifetimes (within the next decade or so, as per some studies).

      Changing to clean energy is something that will take massive infrastructure changes and we needed to be doing that literally decades ago.

      Eating a few less hamburgers and working on a more climate friendly diet can have impacts in as little as a quarter. If enough people even slightly shift their diets, that will lead to massive supply chain changes and shifts in demand. Which will actually make a difference. Nowhere near as big of one but one that can actually be done.

      If your worldview is “nothing I do as an individual matters so I won’t do anything” then… okay. But this is literally something we can do and see change in the short term.

      • ██████████@lemmy.world
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        dude people will never change because you tell them too if yall actually cared you would talk about the end of factory farms (which also incudes Veggies) the corruption Comes from the system itself. you are absolutely naive if you thing a a capitalist run Vegan Diet Enforced by Law would Help the environment

        mate the cut down the rainforest to grow all kinds of food. growing Veggies with Monsanto juice literally gave millions of people cancer 🙄

        • Puzzle_Sluts_4Ever@lemmy.world
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          I genuinely have no idea what point you are trying to make. Between your run-on sentences where you lose track of what you are trying to say multiple times to the random conspiracy theories and threat of a police state it is just… wow.

          But from the one coherent bit of text in your entire post

          dude people will never change because you tell them too (sic)

          So you are very much in the “nothing I do as an individual matters so I won’t do anything” category. Okay. Have fun.

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      You have no idea of the scale we are dealing with.

      https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aba7357

      Vegans still care about the ban of oil and many other topics like zero waste, it is not exclusive.

      Due to the current infrastructure not everyone can just stop using fossile fuel based transport, but we all can go vegan. So yes, we pick battles, those we can win now and we still fight against what we cant change as individuals.