A video that reportedly shows Charlotte Dujardin whipping a horse like “an elephant in the circus” has also led to her suspension from competition for at least six months.
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.
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.
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.
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.