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Plant-heavy ‘flexitarian’ diets could help limit global heating, study finds
(www.theguardian.com)
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Eating meat is not inherently wrong, raping is.
Life consumes other life to live. Humans have evolved to eat meat, we are living beings, a part of this planet just like a lion or hawk.
The lives we must take to live, whether they are plant, animal, or both, were not decided by us but by nature. Killing and eating to live is the only moral reason one has to harm another living being. This is not nice, it's just nature. Does the wild boar chased to it's death by a tiger not suffer a cruel death? Does that make the tiger evil?
Animal Agriculture and Massive Human Populations
Our modern animal agriculture industry is what's wrong, it is disgusting and evil and treats conscious beings as objects indifferent to their suffering. But feeding 8 billion people can only be accomplished using an industrial food industry.
The answer is not trying to turn 8 billion people into vegans, that is simply not going to happen. Rather, we should be striving to reduce our numbers and change culture to respect animals and their sacrifice for our food.
One of the more effective ways to do that are to eat like a "flexitarian" and reduce the amount of dependence on the animal agriculture industry. The other key way to reduce animal suffering is not something an individual has control over -- to have a human population that is not grotesquely oversized for the environment.
Our species has no entitlement to grow to maximum size and kill other beings to support this unnecessary growth. The Haber-Bosch process effectively caused human eutrophication, an imbalance, and like the overgrown algae causing fish kills in lakes, our numbers are causing the unnecessary death of a great many species in our environment and will lead to ecological failure if not taken care of. The solution to eutrophication in a lake is stop the overflow of nutrients.
While it's possible in modern times for a person to live on a vegan diet, it's not a normal, not healthy without significant effort and education, or more moral.
There will never be a time when no humans eat meat. Therefore, we should strive to reduce the suffering required to sustain our own life. Eating flexitarian is a highly practical way to do this. If an individual is willing to sacrifice their health and/or work to gain the knowledge required to be healthy without consuming animals at all (i.e. be vegan) then good for them, but this cannot be expected to occur globally.
There's one big flaw in your logic; humans don't need to eat meat. It's just a cultural thing, tastebuds. So whatever your justifications are they are for pleasure. So all there's left to say is that I hope that you are entertained by all the unnecessary suffering. The propaganda hit you good!
We can survive and with significant effort and education some can even thrive without meat in modern times with B12 supplementation. What you might be able to do as a wealthy American or similar cannot be expected of the rest of the world.
This man was able to be vegan over 1000 years ago while he was blind from the age of 6 due to smallpox and lived to the age of 83. All while he established himself as a renowned poet, writer and philosoph of the arabic world. Granted the B12 levels in soil were much higher back then. But what's bad about taking a pill a day vs destroying the livelihood of future generations?
Nothing for me and you,, but it's a literal impossibility for like 4 billion people.
Which would be the impossible factor(s) in your opinion?
We currently have hundreds of millions of people suffering food insecuring now according to the UN, if we can't feed everyone now, how do you propose to ensure they eat vegan and have adequate vitamin 12.
It's a logistical impossibility in our current global order. I want starving people to get food, my relatively rich ass has no place telling starving people that their food is immoral.