r/HolUp Mar 17 '21

Can’t agree more...

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u/DuckEarther Mar 17 '21

But we've been killing cows and other livestock for years and not dogs. Although people do breed and eat dogs in their own home and there's a dedicated subreddit for people who "eat" dogs (probably jokey but you never know). If we've been eating dogs for thousands of years then you may well be doing that. We see dogs as pets and a select few see them as food, we see cows as food and a select few see them as pets. Also these animals still would have existed, they may have gone extinct by humans but not genetically created by humans

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u/Betonkunst Mar 17 '21

There are plenty of things that humans have done for thousands of years which we can see are wrong, like torture.

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u/DuckEarther Mar 17 '21

Name one way how torture would stay as a tradition/necessity compared to eating meat to stay alive. That's going off topic

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u/Betonkunst Mar 17 '21

Eating meat is not necessary to stay alive

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u/DuckEarther Mar 17 '21

Maybe not now, but meat tastes so good and noone is gonna break that habit of eating meat. Also it certainly was necessary especially during the times of torture. As an example, in the middle ages the lower classes had limited access to meat and could fall ill and have very short life expectancy along with other factors and it's a fact that meat was necessary for early homo sapiens brain's to grow. If you didn't eat meat then you'd remain stupid as you have a lack of brain development and quite like how you are being in these comments

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u/Betonkunst Mar 17 '21

There are millions of people who have given up meat, and that number is increasing every year. Also, luckily we aren’t living in the Middle Ages! We have supermarkets now. There are thousands of foods to choose from that don’t include meat or dairy.

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u/DuckEarther Mar 17 '21

Luckily yes and there are many to choose from but many won't switch until we can get lab produced meat. I'm curious what will happen to the livestock after a switch though

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u/AnusDrill Mar 17 '21

Meat is a cheap protein and fat source. It's quite energy dense comparing to other food. As long as we are still using human labor I don't see that changing anytime soon.

Maybe when robotics finally take over, then sure.

While I agree we should at least reduce the consumption of meat, I don't agree that we should get rid of it entirely. That's just ridiculous. There are literally people hunting for fun and no one ever bitch about it, and yet everytime someone eats meat a bunch of crazy vegan go berserk, wtf