We have to do it. Some of us have to do it in different ways. Doing small things where you can is all well and good but literally none of us are making a single impact in capitalism by making different choices about how we're forced to participate in it. Focus on tearing it down together rather than picking apart individual choices because those individual choices still result in participating in capitalism.

  • VYKNIGHT [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    Do you people really think that people feed tomatoes and cucumbers and shit to farm animals? Most industrialized farms mainly produces shit like wheat, with the remaining stalks harvested for animal feed. Getting rid of animal husbandry is quite literally increase the carbon footprints of farms as each produce will be less efficiently used. Not to mention if everyone were to eat vegetables exclusively, you'll have to increase the farm capacity to make up for all the food that's no longer coming from unfarmable pastures.

      • VYKNIGHT [none/use name]
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        4 years ago

        Indeed, I feel like I'm wasting my effort here. These people's sole purpose is to get off of acting contrarian.

        • DeepPoliSci [none/use name]
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          4 years ago

          Your proposal just creates a culture of hunting deer as pests instead of actually solving something long term

          Pests refer to species that are destructive to a given agricultural or husbandry practice. I'm not talking about the deer population as a pest. I'm talking about the explosion in deer population and it's effect on North American ecosystems.

          Long-term solution involves the centralized planning of agriculture, husbandry, hunting, and foraging to produce food for the local human population in concert with nature.

          Neither hunting & eating more plant-based diets are long-term solutions by themselves.

    • AlexandairBabeuf [they/them]
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      4 years ago

      ehhhh carbon footprints going up from not having giant fart-machines attached to them? stalks going to animal feed is a compelling point but it doesn't feel like a coup de grace. and to my knowledge 'regular' crops of corn get fed to animals, so its not an argument that applies to all farms

      • VYKNIGHT [none/use name]
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        4 years ago

        What do you suppose we do with agricultural remains then? Let it rot on the ground and produce more gasses? Burn them and produce gasses?

        my knowledge ‘regular’ crops of corn get fed to animals, so its not an argument that applies to all farms

        It's true, some crops like Sorghum are grown specifically for animals. But my point that let's not pretend that agriculture has no environmental issues in of itself.