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by Tomminn 2689 days ago
On the flipside.

Let's say you eat 300g of beef a day, every day. Let's say a full grown cow will give you 300kg of beef. In order to fuel this habit of pretty intense meat consumption, you have to kill a cow once every three years.

I think for many people, this in itself doesn't strike them as that immoral, especially if the cow lives a pretty chill life.

The harder one is that if you want to do the same with chickens, you've got to pop one once every 3 or 4 days. Given the fact they often live horrible lives, this seems beyond what most people can morally justify.