[yes_man]

Tangential, but related to the surprise of finding out how shitty humans are to other species:

We slaughter 80 billion animals each year for food. On a planet of 7 billion humans, each year. Those animals only purpose is to be born, get fat, and get eaten by humans. Mostly in horrible conditions because it's cheap. We need to look into the mirror for more than just cosmetics industry.

https://ourworldindata.org/meat-production#number-of-animals...

[shekharshan]

@yes_man, mammals capable of same emotions that humans have, are brought into this world just so that they can be stacked on top of each other in horrid conditions for 1/10th of their natural lifespan in order to be slaughtered and fed to a species that is dying of obesity anyways.

[mensetmanusman]

Invest in technology to reliably reproduce the polypeptides that we are using animals to grow.

Note, for consistency, you should be equally horrified at companies like Ynsect, which are growing trillions of living creatures to be eaten by billions of other creatures:

http://www.ynsect.com/en/

[jkmcf]

Humans don't have a good track record of caring for each other, let alone other animals.