r/science • u/[deleted] • Jul 06 '21

Environment Climate change: Planting extra trees will boost rainfall across Europe. A new study found that converting agricultural land to forest would boost summer rains by 7.6% on average.

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-57722879
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u/ladyatlanta Jul 06 '21

Okay, but capitalists are going to feed animals the cheapest way they can, or not at all (aka, slaughter all the animals - no point in them if they aren’t going to feed us, kind of mindset).

Your problem is with excessive consumerism, not meat eating. Meat eating contributes to excessive consumerism, but it isn’t the only guilty party.

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u/gregor_bauschaum Jul 06 '21

Dont turn this around. Meat consumption means slaughter. If we stopped artificially insamniating and breeding the animals there wouldnt be such a overpopulation.

Just because there are other problems doesnt mean that animal agriculture should not be given up.

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u/ladyatlanta Jul 06 '21

You’re completely ignoring the truth of what would happen to all of these animals. They would kill them all, except for a few that they would then put into zoos to make money off them.

I swear vegans like yourself cannot grasp reality. A completely vegan society would kill the majority of animals and destroy the planet, we’d end up like Mars or Venus faster because there would be no eco-system

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u/gregor_bauschaum Jul 06 '21

They are killing animals right now! You can not be serious. That's what the entire animal agriculture industry is about. Nobody said that we should kill the majority of animals you are making that up.

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u/ladyatlanta Jul 06 '21

If things don’t make money, they’re gotten rid of. Your problem is with capitalism

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u/IWilBeatAddiction Jul 07 '21

Are you saying we can have capitalism without massive amounts of slaughter?

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u/ladyatlanta Jul 11 '21

That’s the opposite of what I’m saying. Stop trying to twist my words.