The pandemic has thrown into high relief some of the longstanding issues surrounding working conditions in meatpacking facilities. John Oliver explains why g...
On one hand I think it's silly to imagine that personal consumer choices would actually cause systemic change, but on the other hand John Oliver is a lib so that's exactly what he should think so it is surprising he doesn't suggest it
Veganism isn't just personal consumer choices, it's changing those choices to further affect public perception and thus policy. No policy on the matter can or will be changed until people agree that our meat industry needs to go.
He actually does suggest it in his last episode on Pandemics, but immediately writes it off as "draconian". Wish he'd stop being a pussy on this and just stand firm that people need to stop eating meat, our government needs to stop subsidizing them, and factory farming needs to be made illegal. For national healthcare reasons, workers rights reasons, environmental reasons, and animal ethics reasons.
On one hand I think it's silly to imagine that personal consumer choices would actually cause systemic change, but on the other hand John Oliver is a lib so that's exactly what he should think so it is surprising he doesn't suggest it
Veganism isn't just personal consumer choices, it's changing those choices to further affect public perception and thus policy. No policy on the matter can or will be changed until people agree that our meat industry needs to go.
He actually does suggest it in his last episode on Pandemics, but immediately writes it off as "draconian". Wish he'd stop being a pussy on this and just stand firm that people need to stop eating meat, our government needs to stop subsidizing them, and factory farming needs to be made illegal. For national healthcare reasons, workers rights reasons, environmental reasons, and animal ethics reasons.
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