• That Weird Vegan@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    3 days ago

    we kill 3T animals a year for food/medicine/clothing/etc. Maybe we should stop?

    edit: sorry, that was quite extreme of me to suggest we don’t kill 3T animals a year.

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      I’m going to go brutally murder and deep-fry my dog just to cancel out whatever grass you ate today, you extremist vegoon! something something lions something desert island grumble grumble muh canines

      Hope that serves as a warning the next time you feel like expressing an opinion that differs from mine being preachy.

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      There are too many cultural factors involved to get a majority of people to stop eating meat.

      The best way to reduce the number of livestock killed is to reduce the number of humans.

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        3 days ago

        You can shift culture, at least slowly. I think our best shot at significantly reducing animals killed is probably investing more into lab-grown meat

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        If you’re worried about cultural factors, you might find removing any significant percentage of the total population will likely run into even more implacable “cultural factors” than meat reduction would.

        This is regardless of the method of population reduction, save perhaps “slow decline” which seems to be promising atm, but that obviously has the downside that it’ll take a few generations to really have an impact.

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          I’m not suggesting a method to reduce population its just an observation that there are simply too many people for basically anything to be sustainable.

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            Fair, we certainly won’t see any perfect or even good solutions given human nature and the large population, but I do think we can achieve mediocre success if we really work hard

      • ComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.ml
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        I don’t think a single vegan is expecting animal exploitation to completely end in their lifetime. This will require a cultural shift that could take so fucking long. Despite that, we all think it is worth doing and being a part of.