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Consumption of animal meat has been done by humans for over 2 million years and there is nothing wrong with it.
I agree that intensive animal farming is bad and humans need to reduce their meat consumption to be more in harmony with nature but it’s not inherently bad.
The former does not imply the latter.
Cooking is a great example - eating cooked food might be the defining feature that seperated homo from other primates, and yet all cooked food is much more carcinogenic than raw.
Just because we literally evolved to do something and have been doing it for millions of years doesn't mean there are no drawbacks, or that it doing it won't kill us.
it does. it doesnt conclusively prove it, but it is evidence toward it.
the king is here, we can finally have it our way!
disengage
maybe a different name would make more sense for all the feverish excuses being made for the status quo?
Missed the part where I said no drawbacks.
Missed this too, apparently.
Are you making the argument that, in the future, eating meat will be determined to be unhealthy even though, as you put it, “we literally evolved to do” it?
Or perhaps there’s nothing wrong with eating meat, in and of itself, but consumption at the current scale is unhealthy? In no small part due to the potential for advanced viruses and illnesses created by jamming a bunch of animals together in confined spaces .
To me "there is nothing wrong with it" implies there are no negatives, so no drawbacks, no chance it might kill us, etc.
Really? To you “there is nothing wrong with it" implies no negatives? None at all?
Are you a Sith? Do you deal only in absolutes?
If you were overhearing a conversation and person A tells person B, “sometimes I do 70 in a 65 zone to keep up with traffic”
And person B says, “there’s nothing wrong with it”
you’d have to chime in and let them know “exceeding the speed limit significantly increases the likelihood of a collision and the severity of injuries in an accident” because they just implied there are no negatives to speeding?
JFC, defensive much?
Not particularly. I do question nonsense statements though.
Uh... yes?
Then I’d imagine you struggle daily with the English language.
Yeah well I imagine you struggle to keep the cereal on the spoon on the way to your mouth in the morning but imagining something doesn't really matter now does it?
Because we've always done it makes it okay? We have burned witches for so long, why did we stop? People held animals and ate them when needed, eating them was a luxory or a necessity. We torture animals in the most horrific ways possible and destroy the planet doing so. Everyone with more than two braincells knows it's wrong and unnecessary. We don't kill animals because we need it, we throw away half the animals we torture because we can.
Future generations, if they even exist will absolutely look back on us and wonder what the fuck was wrong with us and why we treated pigs so bad that they eat their own feet or smashed their skulls in because they were scared in their little gas chamber. I know people who like animals are annoying cunts, but you know what's more annoying? Caring for animals and knowing what we do to them because bacon in kinda good i guess.
okay != healthy, you have moved the conversation from health outcomes to your personal moral context.
your response is literally what this thread is about.
So eating meat hasn’t been unhealthy for 2 million+ years but it will become unhealthy all of a sudden?
Or maybe your trying to shoehorn your personal beliefs to fit the question.
The question is basically entirely about personal beliefs
maybe look a bit more into this and come back?
lol, look into what; the ways your comment is nonsense?
Well, YES IT IS.
What were you, raised under a rock or something...?
No, it’s not. Feel free to look up the definition of inherently and argue with the English language though.
Sure-- feel free to be a ghoul upon modern animal husbandry. And imagine if I was a furious vegan saying that to you.
Doofuses like you would be in their crosshairs ad finem dierum... you complete fool.
ESH
No doubt.
I got tired & cranky last night... not a good look.
Happens to the best of us