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by danaris 1781 days ago
The answer to that is not to abandon higher standards that result in higher prices: it is to help the poor directly, in a variety of other ways.
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the answer you are suggesting has higher deadweight losses to the economy and will make the poor (and everybody else) worse off, full stop. In exchange for which you claim a hypothesized benefit to pigs which I don't believe and also don't believe you have a basis for believing, and which sits on a very shaky foundation, see Dawkins's "The Selfish Gene"
yes, but when you do one without the other, you're making poor people's life harder. People care about animals more I guess.
Please go to therapy and learn about healthy boundaries. You have a savior complex that hurts the people you supposedly want to help.