Edible Insects: In Europe, a Growing Push for Bug-Based Food (e360.yale.edu)

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[-] insurgenRat@beehaw.org 9 points 1 year ago

Problem: farming animals is inefficienct, cruel, expensive, and destroying the earth which gives us life life

Solution 1: learn to cook dhal

eww no veggies, I am 12 and refuse to eat them

solution 2: convince the arrogant fussy and cruel hedonist that rejected 1 to eat crickets?

solution 3: keep all of the horror of farming but make it marginally more efficient?

Mmm yay, pigs screaming in terror while they die in gas chambers makes me hungries.

[-] dawt@beehaw.org 9 points 1 year ago

I have found that practical solutions are rarely all or nothing, personally.

Are you against eating meat from a consequentialist perspective, or a deontological one? In my opinion, less meat eaten is better - better for the environment, and less money going into cruel practices around slaughtering animals, etc - even if the reasons for it are varied and not strictly from a standard of moral duty.

[-] balderdash9@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago

Everyone is a consequentialist these days it seems. Assume consequentialism until proven otherwise

[-] Tordoc@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago

A reminder to be(e) nice; we all come from different backgrounds, and launching ad hominem attacks is ineffective in getting people to consider your arguments.

[-] azerial@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

It doesn't have to be cruel. I grew up on a sustainable farm. I agree with you however, it's the culture that has decided meat or nothing and that's why it's cruel.