I'm not a vegan but it's foolish to think that vegans aren't objectively correct. Let's even say that plants are conscious beings on the level of cows or pigs. The conditions these plants are grown in are a million times better than that of the average factory farm animal. Additionally, in order to sustain ourselves on cows and pigs, exponentially more of these conscious plants need to be killed to fatten the conscious animals we are eating.
If we just ate the plants instead there would be several orders of magnitude less suffering in the word, antibiotic resistant bacteria would be a less immediate issue, a significant amount of our greenhouse gas emissions would disappear, and we'd all probably be healthier to boot.
Yes, something has to die in order for any organism to continue it's existence. Let's not pretend that only plants dying aren't a better alternative in every way to animals dying in order to further our collective existence. You accuse vegans of being reactionary but your comment smacks of knee-jerky defensiveness for something you seem to understand is wrong
It's just public, unlike reddit. There have been countless controversies over poor moderation on reddit. On lemmy everyone can see when someone is banned for bullshit reasons and call it out. Don't mistake awareness for frequency
How is lemmy the first place I'm haring about this? God fucking damnit. Does anyone happen to know where I can find a list of parks they're planning for development? Google isn't turning anything up
I crunched the numbers a while ago ~ 3 out of 100 people who commit rape will be sentenced in the US. His odds of being adequately punished for his crimes were incredibly low. Most rapists serve less than 10 years as well. On a good day he probably would've gotten 3-5 years tops
Wish I could tell you. They didn't do it with pot either despite it having plenty of medicinal applications. Maybe they perceive it as more of a threat than a money making opportunity? It's less addictive than other opiates (from what I understand) and we know that addiction was part of their business model with opiates . It helps people recover from addiction in a way that doesn't require life-long treatment so maybe it would be a net-negative in their eyes. Idk I just woke up and I'm rambling lol
Yeah kratom has been catching shit for at least a decade. Despite the fact that it's safer than alcohol and has been shown to be effective in helping opiate addicts recover. Pharma companies can't make money off it so obviously it should be illegal
It's worth mentioning recreational pot and abortion are on the ballot this November as well. There's very likely to be a larger progressive presence at the polls in FL
It's funny you mention that. I'm dealing with the squirts as I write this comment lol. Not sure if it's the nightshift, the pulled pork I had for dinner, or my second cup of coffee causing this. Probably a bit of all three
Idk I view it a little closer than that. Rather than an arts program v sports program I see it as an art program that wants to buy paint and I'm saying maybe it would be a better idea to buy easles, canvases, pencils, paper, and pastels instead
I'm not a vegan but it's foolish to think that vegans aren't objectively correct. Let's even say that plants are conscious beings on the level of cows or pigs. The conditions these plants are grown in are a million times better than that of the average factory farm animal. Additionally, in order to sustain ourselves on cows and pigs, exponentially more of these conscious plants need to be killed to fatten the conscious animals we are eating.
If we just ate the plants instead there would be several orders of magnitude less suffering in the word, antibiotic resistant bacteria would be a less immediate issue, a significant amount of our greenhouse gas emissions would disappear, and we'd all probably be healthier to boot.
Yes, something has to die in order for any organism to continue it's existence. Let's not pretend that only plants dying aren't a better alternative in every way to animals dying in order to further our collective existence. You accuse vegans of being reactionary but your comment smacks of knee-jerky defensiveness for something you seem to understand is wrong