• sazey@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    You obviously need some animal protein in your diet if these are the kind of leaps in logic you make.

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        6 months ago

        what about the 100s of thousands of small vermin and critters that are killed when a field is tilled to plant a nutrionally useless soy monoculture? or do they not meet your threshold for photogenicity and cuteness like normal farm animals do?

        The specific leap in logic I was referring to was equating killing for nutrition to killing for ‘pleasure’. Equating the two is usually the strawman behind most vegan arguments.

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          6 months ago

          It’s not a strawman. Being a meat eater is a choice. If you just want nutrition, you’re a vegan. You choose meat if you like the taste of corpse better than the efficiency of plants.

          If you’re a carnist, then your food needs food. In the US, your food’s food is typically a corn monoculture. Your cows need to eat many times as much corn as their meat is worth, in terms of kilojoules. We could just feed a tenth of the corn to people and get rid of the cows, and let the other 9/10 corn fields return to nature. But, you people want a hamburger because it tastes good. This ain’t about nutrition or the environment.