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by sojournerc 180 days ago
Food is frivolous!? Good God the future is bleak.
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Food isn't frivolous, meat arguably is if you're talking about efficiency.

You've got to feed a cow for a year and half until it's slaughtered. That's a whole lot of input, for a cow's worth of meat output.

Meat is not necessary.
The only way to phase out meat is to make a replacement that actually tastes good.

Come to the american south and ask them to try tempeh. They'll look at you like you asked them to eat roaches.

It's a cultural thing.

Taste has nothing to do with it; 'tis is all based on economics and the actual way to stop meat consumption is to simply remove big-ag tax subsidies and other externalized costs of production which are not actually realized by the consumer. A burger would cost more than most can afford and the free market would take care of this problem without additional intervention. Unfortunately, we do not have a free market.
I would much rather lobby for ending ad gag laws, and fighting for better treatment of animals.

I think its more realistic than getting people to give up meat entirely

You cannot treat a commodified individual "better" - it is only possible to euphemize such a logical fallacy.
So there's no point in pushing for pasture raised, and it's either all or nothing ?

I think incremental progress is possible. I think rolling back and gag laws would make a positive difference in animal welfare because people would be able to film and show how bad conditions are inside.

I think that's worth pushing for. And it's more realistic than everyone stopping eating meat all at once.

Comfortable clothes aren't necessary. Food with flavor isn't necessary... We should all just eat ground up crickets in beige cubicles because of how many unnecessary things we could get rid of. /s