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[–] [email protected] 28 points 8 months ago (14 children)

"Hardly anything is evil, but most things are hungry. Hunger looks very much like evil from the wrong end of the cutlery. Or do you think your bacon sandwich loves you back?"

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (13 children)

I didn't realise people ate bacon sandwiches out of pure necessity.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago (12 children)

This might be a news flash, but food is a need. Not only that, but food and diets are formed during young ages and food networks take lifetimes to build.

Even in your perfect little world, if everybody ate vegan right now, we would eventually hit a point where somebody is eating meat.

So yes, unless you have secretly set up vegan food distribution networks to the entire planet overnight without everybody knowing, a bacon sandwich becomes a necessity somewhere.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

My point was that a bacon sandwich in particular is not a food need that's hard to replace nutritionally by existing foods. People eat it because it's super tasty. I would bet there is a very small percentage of total bacon eaten in the world that is eaten out of necessity (impoverished family eating their raised livestock).

It's a bad faith argument to make the assumption that I think the change should happen overnight instantly. And it's simply a bad argument that someone somewhere would have to eat meat eventually. It takes a LOT of crop farming to provide sustainance for the meat industry.

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