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Re: Animals killed since opening this page

#21
A lot of these compassionate posts about protecting previously-unknown or unconscious things/creatures/human groups etc, is that they systematically have no mentioning of what they want to achieve, and the roadmap towards that.

Sure, if you want to raise awareness, but for what purpose?

To provoke meat-eating people's conscience? Or make them angry?

Edit: Comments did a great job of explaining the objectives, and rationale. Thanks!

Re: Animals killed since opening this page

#23

Uncomfortable thoughts: Let's say first world countries in the West get on board with not eating meat anymore. How do you exactly go about telling impoverished countries/peoples to stop eating meat? Would we ban meat and force them to eat some substitutes? But food is an important part of culture and we would be erasing their culture if we did that wouldn't we? Should we give some cultural groups the right to eat mea…

Well, "we", as in "first world countries" can't "ban" meat in other countries without stepping on their sovereignty. "We" have done it before, for worse reasons (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_Guatemalan_coup_d%27%C3%A... and numerous other examples), but that doesn't mean "we" should do it again.

Re: Animals killed since opening this page

#24

A lot of these compassionate posts about protecting previously-unknown or unconscious things/creatures/human groups etc, is that they systematically have no mentioning of what they want to achieve, and the roadmap towards that. Sure, if you want to raise awareness, but for what purpose? To provoke meat-eating people's conscience? Or make them angry? Edit: Comments did a great job of explaining the objectives, and rat…

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Re: Animals killed since opening this page

#25

Uncomfortable thoughts: Let's say first world countries in the West get on board with not eating meat anymore. How do you exactly go about telling impoverished countries/peoples to stop eating meat? Would we ban meat and force them to eat some substitutes? But food is an important part of culture and we would be erasing their culture if we did that wouldn't we? Should we give some cultural groups the right to eat mea…

Most of impoverished countries already eat mostly veg. We wouldn't need to ban them

Re: Animals killed since opening this page

#26

A lot of these compassionate posts about protecting previously-unknown or unconscious things/creatures/human groups etc, is that they systematically have no mentioning of what they want to achieve, and the roadmap towards that. Sure, if you want to raise awareness, but for what purpose? To provoke meat-eating people's conscience? Or make them angry? Edit: Comments did a great job of explaining the objectives, and rat…

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Re: Animals killed since opening this page

#27

Uncomfortable thoughts: Let's say first world countries in the West get on board with not eating meat anymore. How do you exactly go about telling impoverished countries/peoples to stop eating meat? Would we ban meat and force them to eat some substitutes? But food is an important part of culture and we would be erasing their culture if we did that wouldn't we? Should we give some cultural groups the right to eat mea…

Exporting cultural strictures rarely ends well (many historical examples, both distant and recent), so I'd say, if you can get a large number of people in the West to not eat meat, then you've reduced the suffering of animals by a tremendous amount. That alone is a perfectly fine goal. Let non-coercive cultural influence do the rest of the work, while never forcing a populace to do something against its interests or will. (After all, non-Western vegetarian cultures have influenced Western diets...)

Re: Animals killed since opening this page

#28

Uncomfortable thoughts: Let's say first world countries in the West get on board with not eating meat anymore. How do you exactly go about telling impoverished countries/peoples to stop eating meat? Would we ban meat and force them to eat some substitutes? But food is an important part of culture and we would be erasing their culture if we did that wouldn't we? Should we give some cultural groups the right to eat mea…

Most of impoverished countries already eat mostly veg. We wouldn't need to ban them

But is that because of price? I thought China had one of the greatest rates of increases in meat consumption as their income rate grew

Re: Animals killed since opening this page

#30

A lot of these compassionate posts about protecting previously-unknown or unconscious things/creatures/human groups etc, is that they systematically have no mentioning of what they want to achieve, and the roadmap towards that. Sure, if you want to raise awareness, but for what purpose? To provoke meat-eating people's conscience? Or make them angry? Edit: Comments did a great job of explaining the objectives, and rat…

They want to achieve a decrease in pollution, animal cruelty, heart disease, etc.

When I look at this I see 1.5 billion pigs producing insane amounts of by product that directly affects our climate and our watershed. Not to mention the impact on human health.

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