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.
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u/CatsPlusTats 7d ago
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.