Meatpacking: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
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The pandemic has thrown into high relief some of the longstanding issues surrounding working conditions in meatpacking facilities. John Oliver explains why g...
    • ButtBidet [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      There's this scientifically questionable idea that more field mice are hurt than livestock animals. Assuming this is true...

      If you eat a pig that had a grain to mean conversation ratio of 8 to 1, or a cow that's like 20 to 1, won't less field mice die if we eat the plants directly? You realize that most grain in the US goes to feed livestock, right?

      Edit: "won't less field mice die if we eat the plants directly. OMG I feel dumb

    • volkvulture [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      growing plants kills many animals, as well as the plants

      if we're concerned about things dying, then I think the best choice is to not eat

            • volkvulture [none/use name]
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              4 years ago

              i am not talking specifically or only about plants, but organisms in general. But I am talking specifically about death & sustenance of life & how the two are inextricable... which in this spiritual & ethical sense might, in the most profane way, be the only real liberation for any living thing

          • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            Congrats, you defeated the strawman vegan. Would you like to face off against a strawman campus SJW next?

            • volkvulture [none/use name]
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              4 years ago

              defeated? i thought we were only discussing how this isn't about personal aesthetics & individual consumerist flights of fancy