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[–] ElcaineVolta@kbin.melroy.org 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)

supporting animal cruelty is optional.

[–] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 26 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

But won't someone think of the meat industry shareholders if we all ate plants?? All their shareholder value would be gone and instead we'd be reducing animal cruelty, climate emissions, zoonetics disease and worker PTSD. Is that the future you want?

[–] gandalf_der_12te@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

what if we build a good world for nothing?

[–] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago

Exactly what good is a better word for everyone if there's no shareholder value to be made. Does this sound like shareholder value to you?

To produce 1 kg of protein from kidney beans required approximately eighteen times less land, ten times less water, nine times less fuel, twelve times less fertilizer and ten times less pesticide in comparison to producing 1 kg of protein from beef

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25374332/

[–] ElcaineVolta@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago

Mating is a different thing than what we were talking about before, but I mean hope that goes well for you /s