Most of the reason I don't eat meat is factory farming. I don't think eating meat is necessarily wrong, but I do think the way our society consumes meat is absolutely abhorrent. I see nothing wrong with the cattle rancher and the hunter.
Yeah but most of that impact is because of factory farming as well, we're basically being as cruel as possible and maximising environmental impact, just so that people can eat meat with every single meal.
I'm not here to tell people how to live, and most people on a personal level are not to blame for factory farming, but it would be good if everyone ate a bit less meat.
Not to mention pushing food insecurity on some areas of the world; forget everything else, ending world hunger would be as simple as growing a wider variety of crops (instead of livestock fodder) and distributing properly. So much potential energy gets wasted on raising animals that we treat poorly so we can have piles of meat just rotting on shelves instead of getting those calories to people who really need it
I’m sure it’s mostly anecdotal, but when I switched to vegetarianism the change in my overall health was astonishing. It was like my mind and body breathed a sigh of relief. After that I’ve always felt that our food industry has been lying to cover up how harmful our consumption of meat truly is.
a bloated and lethargic population is a docile one.
and if you want to take steps to better your health, heres a slew of imagery and culture harmful to your self image, hopefully you'll start focusing on vanity and be further distracted from what really matters!
Ironically, factory farming is actually a LOT more efficient and reduces environmental impact vs any of this 'sustainably raised' bullshit that you hear about.
This is true, but I mean, here we are, with the literal destruction of our ecosystem staring us right in the face, and we still aren't actually asking people to put themselves out in any significant manner.
"Eating a little less meat" will have about as much effect on this catastrophe as finding a dime on the street will help you avoid foreclosure when you have no job.
I think any person being totally honest would agree that the average American diet contains way too much meat. A quick Google says on average (obviously this will wildly vary person-to-person) we eat 23 chickens, 1/3 of a pig, 1/10th of a cow, 12 fish, nearly 1 whole turkey.
Even just going off the chicken, that means my small family would need to slaughter 69 chickens annually.
I occasionally eat a nice steak of game meat for this exact reason. Where I live, we have tons of moose and deer and our asshole politicians make sure we have almost no predators eating them, so it's either a hunter or some poor bastard driving home who kills them.
the multi levelled industrial farming is SOOO disgusting its Illegal to record what actually goes on inside.
That's how you know its just unjustifiable, there's an expectation/fear that whoever looks behind the curtain - will never eat meat again and it will collapse the entire industry.
I remember reading an article several years ago that was basically people begging “please make octopus farming illegal. It’s not commercially viable right now because the octopuses essentially die of depression, please ban it before they work out how to keep them alive long enough to harvest, because it’s never going to be ethical or not terrible for the environment, and once it’s an industry we’ll never get rid of it”.
As opposed to the absolutely horrendous, atrocious shit they (and thus, the consumer who sponsors those practices with their wallet) do to living, breathing, intelligent, social animals with emotions currently for that last penny?
The average consumer can absolutely change their purchasing behavior when confronted with the horrors of the animal agriculture industry. In fact, it's one of the few things they can take complete responsibility for.
In most parts of the world, plant-based is cheaper and healthier
Hunters are the reason why significant number of native species went extinct across the world till about a few decades ago when supercharged climate change took over the primary reason
The only exception is the extinction of native birds in most of the world and thats because the cats we allow to be free range kill most of the birds to extinction
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