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Skyraptor7 @lemmy.world

1y ago

[Answered] Why is the consumption of Meat considered bad

I heard something to do with Nitrogen and …cow farts(?) I am really unsure of this and would like to learn more.

Answer -

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Ethical reason for consuming animals
Methane produced by cows are a harmful greenhouse gas which is contributing to our current climate crisis
Health Reasons - there is convincing evidence that processed meats cause cancer
it takes a lot more calories of plant food to produce the calories we would consume from the meat.

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Unless it's meat synthesized in a lab, it requires the forced breeding, enslavement, abuse, and eventually murder of sentient animals which don't jive too well with the golden rule.
I personally could give a hoot about it's negative impacts on environment. Gd bacon memes, humanity can go extinct good riddance
- you know wild animals are suffering and dying and whole species are going extinct as a result of climate change and deforestation, right? how does that jive with the golden rule in your book?
  
  Meat animal farming contributes to climate change and abstaining makes the demand for meat lower. It's actually perfectly consistent.
  
  They said they don't care about the effects on the environment.
  
  abstaining makes the demand for meat lower.
  no, it doesn't.
  
  Demand just means how much is bought. Less bought is less demand.
  
  I'm pretty sure more is bought every year, not less
  
  Less than it would be with X people plus 1 (me)
  Are you deliberately being obtuse?
  
  if you buy something, it's not available for someone else to buy it.
  also, you can't prove a counterfactual.
- the golden rule applies to humans.

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