• alcoholicorn [comrade/them, doe/deer]
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    3 years ago

    I doubt these pigs are entirely fed waste products.

    All the farmland growing feed would support more people if it were growing something edible.

    • Ram_The_Manparts [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      In a perfect world there would be no industrial farms. I think we all agree on that. And in a perfect world all of us might be vegan.

      But we don't live in a perfect world, and people need to eat.

        • Ram_The_Manparts [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          That's all true.

          But the entire world's population is not going to magically go vegan overnight. In the same way that the entire world's population isn't going to magically turn communist overnight.

          I'm just saying that there will be no animal liberation (literally impossible under capitalism) before human liberation, so we should focus on the latter.

          • star_wraith [he/him]
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            3 years ago

            I don't disagree. But I do think there's a lot of misconceptions out there by omnis that as a planet, we "need" meat and that there isn't enough farmland to grow enough plants to feed everyone; when the reality is that an entire planet of vegans would actually help sustain things better than having meat.

            I mean I believed this until less than a year ago.

        • kristina [she/her]
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          3 years ago

          ideal thing is just having tech that feeds cells directly and makes it reproduce. becomes way more space efficient to have a ton of vats for it. and we're already nearing industrial production of that scale. its not unlikely that by 2030-2040 that you can get vegan vat grown meat at roughly the same cost as normal meat. theyll likely be making salmon, tuna, and ground chicken first. and itll likely be more efficient acreage wise than farming

          • Catherine_Steward [she/her]
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            3 years ago

            Why is it "ideal" to go out of our way to pioneer entirely new kinds of technology to accomplish something we can already accomplish by just farming plants?

            • Koa_lala [he/him]
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              3 years ago

              Because we want to successfully feed everyone a nutritious meal? Also, I don't want to be a pale, barely functional skeleton. Consuming less meat, sure. But also remember that not every country is the US where meat consumption is as idiotic as every other form of consumption there. Meat consumption in China is like less than half of what it is in the states.

              • kristina [she/her]
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                3 years ago

                i eat like a normal czech person, we eat like, potatoes and chicken and lots of fuckin berries. like a bowl of berries a day, its habitual to have a ton of berry bushes in your back yard. i also have medical issues that make a lot of non-fruit plants inedible for me. restricting my diet further is dangerous on many levels. if this tech figures out chicken cell reproduction (or any meat really) and sells it at the same price as other meats, i'd be functionally a vegan. and a lot of countries would be like that too. most places eat chicken in high quantities. solve that one meat and so much of the meat industry collapses.

              • Catherine_Steward [she/her]
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                3 years ago

                Because we want to successfully feed everyone a nutritious meal?

                Why do you falsely believe you can't do that with plants?

                • Koa_lala [he/him]
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                  3 years ago

                  the key words here are 'successfully' and 'everyone'.

                  • Catherine_Steward [she/her]
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                    3 years ago

                    And you'd rather rely on fantasy technology that we will hypothetically have in the future than simple agriculture that we've had for thousands of years? That's idealism, it's silly. Stop being silly.

                    • kristina [she/her]
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                      3 years ago

                      fantasy? are you living under a rock? companies are already selling this to restaurants. the problem right now is one of scale. you can buy these vegan meat dishes for like 25 bucks for a small portion. another issue is that the methods arent approved by the USDA yet, but in hong kong and singapore its already approved and available in many restaurants.

                      https://youtu.be/1OO5YpCevfY

            • kristina [she/her]
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              3 years ago

              lmao, youre one of those whackjobs. its already on the cusp, if youre able to achieve global veganism before this tech takes over the meat industry ill applaud you. frankly? global veganism isnt going to happen without this tech, no matter how much you want to fairy tale it into existence. you cant just muh individualism people into veganism. and no redneck in the south is gonna sign up for a vegan revolutionary army. theyll laugh at you. and that includes the socialist rednecks. what are the material conditions necessary for creating a vegan revolutionary army anyways? what if you enter a long march scenario, where youre trekking through treacherous terrain and have to scavenge off the land? no eating deer? let the entire army die?

              • Catherine_Steward [she/her]
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                3 years ago

                before this tech takes over the meat industry

                This is complete nonsense, that's never going to happen. Carnists love cruelty and will never stop.

                  • Catherine_Steward [she/her]
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                    3 years ago

                    They think cruelty is the "natural" and "correct" way of going about life. They won't change because they don't think what they're doing is wrong in any way. It's like thinking that Biden libs will suddenly go out of their way to implement communism. It's not their goal. Carnists are not trying to phase out the murder of animals, because they love it and think it's correct.

                      • Catherine_Steward [she/her]
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                        3 years ago

                        it’s wrong to think most people won’t choose the less violent option if it’s given to them

                        No, you are the one who is wrong in assuming that a significant chunk of carnists will go out of their way to do less violence. They don't see what they support as violence. They would see lab grown meat as a weird novelty that will probably give them supercancer or (worse) breasts and avoid it at all costs.

                          • Catherine_Steward [she/her]
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                            3 years ago

                            lmao carnists are already afraid of tofu, you think they're going to be less afraid of eating weird clone meat?

                            it's ridiculous to even consider dude

                            • DefinitelyNotAPhone [he/him]
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                              3 years ago

                              The average meat eater (aka 90%+ of the world's population) give zero fucks where their meat comes from. If cloned chicken and regular chicken look identical sitting next to each other in the grocery store they're not going to give a fuck if the latter quietly disappears in favor of the former.

                              The rolling-coal eat-7-steaks-a-day-to-own-the-libs dipshits are not the average person.

                • kristina [she/her]
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                  3 years ago

                  whackjob. you are a whackjob. go touch grass.

                  also, if we inherently love cruelty for eating meat, why will we be vegan? shut up then. im gonna go bathe in pig blood right now, and have an orgy covered in cow intestines. because i'm cruel.