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    People wouldn’t care nearly as much if he said this while standing over a pond full of fish, but since they’re cute, fuzzy lambs, it’s Crossing The Line.

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      To be fair, fish brains are much further removed than other mammals.

      Mammals have memories and can love. They have opinions and personalities.

      The distinction that I would better is how up in arms some people get at the idea of eating dogs or cats but other mammals are perfectly fine.

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      I mean, yeah… Lambs are baby animals. Of course they are fluffy and cute.

      Id feel pretty weird eating cute, baby animals, so I don’t. I do get why people don’t like this situation. It feels like people are being obtuse in this thread pretending to be flummoxed by all this.

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        Yeah I mean it makes me sad (as a veg) but is this out of character or really “wrong” to a meat eater? Like, that animal is exactly what you find to be very tasty and have no problem eating. What’s wrong with this given that ethical framework? If anything, he’s just being earnest lol

        e: phrasing

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            Anyone who thinks that’s all they are is either horribly desensitized or hasn’t spent any real time around farm animals.

            I know lots of farmers who think exactly that. Stop projecting your self-righteous sense of morality on others.

            Unless you’re going to invoke some actual philosophy, your opinion is just as moot as anyone else’s.

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        Gordon Ramsay absolutely is not sheltered. He has killed and harvested his own animals many times.

        As for hunters not doing this, I think you don’t know many hunters. I’m a hunter, have many hunter friends, and talk hunting with people any chance I get. I’ve never met a hunter who wouldn’t be ok with this(or even do it themselves). Granted this is anecdotal evidence from both of us, but still.

        Also, some people genuinely don’t care about the animals we raise specifically for food, that’s all they are to them (I fall into this group). I see their lives as ours, they exist solely to feed us. That doesn’t mean I think they should have shitty living conditions until their time comes, they should be able to enjoy what little life they have.

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            No, your anecdotal experiences are different, so they shouldn’t be used as a basis to influence or judge others.

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                Was this anecdote included to justify the judgement?

                Alternatively, every hunter and farmer I know who hasn’t become fully disassociated (the majority of them) respects the animals they eat too much to do something like this.

                I’m not saying you’re wrong for judging others btw- just that in light of two equally anecdotal and contrasting experiences, the anecdotal evidence should not be included.

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            I never said it was made up, just that neither of our evidence is based on much.

            As for being cringey? Call it what you want, but those specific animals literally only exist because they’re delicious, and we want to eat them. It doesn’t matter if you don’t like it, it’s fact.

            Animals are here for us to enjoy. The exact meaning of that is up to each individual on this earth.

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        and also shows a disregard for where your food comes from

        I don’t think you can acknowledge where your food is coming from anymore than this.

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        Strikes me as completely the opposite. He’s going to the source overseeing the whole process. And obviously it’s going to be prepared with the utmost care and turned into a world class dish. Compared to Joe Schmo torching a factory farmed steak, it seems a lot more respectful

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    So… if you’re not acknowledging where the meat comes from, that’s bad
    But if you are acknowledging it, it’s bad as well?

    Many people who eat meat do that not while lying to themselves about where it comes from as many vegetarians/vegans assume. They just legitimately do not feel bad for the animals they eat. Just as so many of us don’t feel bad about the clothes they wear or the smartphone batteries they use.

    The world is full of abuse, suffering and other such bullshit. You can’t feel bad about all of it, or you’d go insane because you can’t escape it. Besides, the brain just numbs itself at a certain pöint. So you need to allocate your compassion to a few of the sufferings you know of. Many go with animals for that. Many don’t.

    So the question isn’t why the person eating meat is heartless, the question is what kind of pity the person not eating meat left out for it.

    That’s how my mind processes the whole thing.

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      See this is one of the reasons I started hunting. I figured if I couldn’t morally deal with personally killing and preparing the creature, no more meat. It’s easy to eat meat when it’s a lump in plastic wrap on a store shelf versus when it’s like standing in front of you. (I leave the actual butchering to professionals though). Wasting food hits different when you saw it alive and you’re the one who unalived it.

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    People’s perspectives on things are weird. I’m totally fine with vegans, vegetarians, meat eaters, whoever. But when someone who eats meat is excited because they think meat tastes good… why did you think they eat it??? Obviously they think it’s yummy, and obviously, to a certain degree, they see animals as a source of that. If you want to fight against that fine, but don’t act surprised that it exists.

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      Its considered disrespectful.

      The moral take of meat eating is that we respect the animals we kill to survive, and that we dont waste or belittle the animal just because its food.

      This is the reason local farms are “more ethical” than commercial farming, because theyre more likely to treat the animal with respect.

      Ramsey here is getting flack cause its kinda disrespectful to the living thing he is going to eat.

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              You arent trying to not hurt the lambs feelings.

              You respect the animal because that respect is what keeps you from forgeting that the lamb is still a living, thinking, feeling animal even when its going to become food.

              When you respect your livestock, you feed them well, keep them groomed, treat them when sick, and keep them reasonably happy. You cant abuse your animals when you respect them.

              Obviously this doesnt mean ramsay is an animal abuser. Im sure he just thinks its a funny joke. In the right contexts, it usually is.

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        I don’t think he can say anything that is comparable in disrespect to what happens in the average slaughterhouse (bad compared to ethically sourced meat? Sure, you could argue that)

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          Ok, and? You dont respect someone by finding the person who respects them the least and setting your bar 1 notch above that.

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        No, we eat everyone because they are TASTY! What Gordon is doing is AWESOME! I do the same every time I see any animal. ALL ANIMALS ARE FOOD!!!

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        Respect is a human concept. It isn’t in nature and it’s just to make people like you feel better about the fact that life means you gotta kill something to keep living. At least food is delicious.

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          The respect isnt to soothe the animals feelings.

          The respect is to make sure you dont forget that the animal is also alive and feeling, and you still need to treat it well even though it will become food.

          Its to keep forward in your mind that animal abuse is still abuse, even if the animal is meant for your dinner.

          Respect is, also, abundant in nature. For starters, you and I arent aliens. But respect is an almost required aspect of most social species communal interactions. Corvids, other primates, snakes in heat, bees, etc.

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      Lots of people don’t really understand where meat comes from. They understand the concept that an animal has to die, but they prefer their meat comming out of a plastic package.

      Example: we used to raise our own animals, I knew every single one by name and saw them grow up. When it was time to slaughter them we brought them to the butcher, got a carcass and the fur back. Guests could help feed the animals, feel the fluffiest pillow out of treated fur and I could tell them the name of the animal we served. However, most of them (obviously all meat eaters) could not comprehend at all, how we could slaughter and process those absolutely cute things.

      I prefer to know where my meat comes from. Many people prefer not to, so they can loose appetite or get upset if they see the animal before it is brought to the butcher.

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        Everyone should, at least once, kill something for their meal. It makes you appreciate it, even if I still buy meat from Costco, etc.

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          I agree, or if they can’t handle it they shouldn’t be eating it. Distancing yourself from the killing is just mental. If you’re purchasing meat, you’re causing something to be butchered. If you can’t handle witnessing it/participating in it, you should reconsider eating it. The customer is still a participant who is willfully ignorant.

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      I don’t think ‘surprised’ is the word that really fits what is going on here. I’m a meat eater and even i think this is Unnecessary… inappropriate… in the same way that I hate idiot drivers even though I drive a car too.

      but then your argument doesn’t really have any relevancy if it’s anything but pretending people are without the worldly experience you deem to have and believe we’re just over here clutching pearls over it.

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      People are pretty obviously protesting his behavior prior to dining/slaughter.

      There’s such a thing as responsible, informed omnivores who don’t like this objectifying bone head (wonder what home life is like with Gordon) or his behavior towards something that will give it’s life to sustain us.

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      It’s not the meat eating that’s immoral, it’s the industrialization of meat production that is - robbing an animal of all its freedom and all its chances to actually be alive. It kills evolution. It is anti-life.

      What is happening on these industrialized meat farms is utterly disgusting and will become a crime once synthetic meat production is economically viable. It’s existentially wrong beyond any morals.

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        Absolutely can’t wait for lab grown meat to reach industrial scale.

        Hunted meat is really ethical in the mean time, in my country that usually means pheasant (at the right time of year) or venison (which is unfortunately not cheap at all, I’d really like to see deer hunting for meat encouraged by the government).

        I do eat farmed meat, but I definitely eat less of it than I used to.

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          Hunting is also beneficial to the health of game animal herds, and is a fundamental part of wildlife conservation.

          So it can be ethical, healthy, and tasty to eat meat from killed animals.

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            Not true they hunt the wrong ones. In nature the sick and weak are eaten by predators. We shoot the healthiest ones. Bad idea.

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              OK smart guy, go ask any wildlife conservationist about it or just google it. I’m right and you are absolutely wrong.

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      Could you explain which part of eating meat is wrong? We have evolved to what we are today, thanks largely to our ancestors’ diets.

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        One pretty consistent moral among societies is that needlessly causing harm is considered wrong. Outside of lab grown, its impossible to acquire meat without grievously harming an animal. Further, the vast majority of our meat is NOT gained by hunting but instead by factory, and the conditions of meat factories are appalling and horrific. So yes, if we CAN get the nutrients we need without the consumption of meat, that is the most moral way to get our nutrition met. All that being said, even today, being able to meet all nutritional needs without any form of animal cruelty is an incredibly privileged position to be in, and we arent quite at the stage where its fair to judge others for not doing so

        (edit: and I say this as a meat eater, meat is fuckin delicious and I dont want to give it up. I’m personally banking on lab grown meat becoming an economical option, at which point we have removed the ethical muddiness of it)

        (Edit 2: Lmao, I ruffled the feathers of a lot of meat eaters who’ve likely never actually had to kill any if the animals they’ve eaten. I have, I still eat meat. Reality is messy, fucking own it)

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          Well hunting is a pain in the ass as it is. In an industrialized society we traded markets with shared goods to more specific specialties. Sure I can hunt for food because of licenses and availability but the trade off is most of the people have really good health care. At least objectively they have access to healthcare that can cure things that back in the 1500s would kill you within days.

          My point is that at some point someone said “Hey I can take care of the meat portion if you take care of (insert many specialists careers).” There was no morality involved. Choosing to be vegan is fine. I think that it’s easier to get certain things from animal sources. So does nature.

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          One pretty consistent moral among societies is that needlessly causing harm is considered wrong.

          besides your total lack of specificity about ethical systems or societies in which they exist, your use of “needlessly” is doing a lot of work there. on the one hand it sets up a no-true-scotsman where you can always claim no need is great enough, but it also gives anyone challenging this claim a loophole the size of a walmart to walk through: just claim it’s necessary.

          i don’t think you really understand the claim you made. worse, if you do, that means you’re intentionally using vague language and intellectually dishonest tactics to persuade. this is called sophistry.

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            Im kinda done arguing with dumbasses in good faith about whether or not killing an animal is less ethical than not killing one. I’m a meat eater, I find meat delicious, and I ALSO recognise that most of the world isnt in a privileged enough position to NOT eat meat in order to fulfill their dietary needs. None of this takes away from the fact that killing is less ethical than not killiing

            • Im kinda done arguing with dumbasses in good faith about whether or not killing an animal is less ethical than not killing one.

              Abso-fucking-lutely based. Sometimes it’s better to just call a dumbass, ‘a dumbass’ than engage with their bullshit sealioning.

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              Im kinda done arguing with dumbasses in good faith about whether or not killing an animal is less ethical than not killing one.

              calling your interlocutors names is a great way to indicate you’re done arguing in good faith, but you just came out and said it. too bad you don’t seem capable of defending the claim you’re making.

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          One pretty consistent moral among societies is that needlessly causing harm is considered wrong.

          The problem with this as your moral compass is that “needless” can mean whatever you want it to mean. It’s not actually a guideline to any specific behavior

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            Thats a semantics arguement to a generalized statement which is special kind of stupid. I gave a detailed response to further explain why this applies to meat eating and even ended with saying we havent reached a point in society where its fair to judge others for not abandoning eating meat. Just because society has always done things a certain way, doesnt make it right or moral, slavery was the NORM until around the last couple 100 years, and now its near universally considered atrocious. Meat eating from once living animals will likely be the next once norm, now evil, societal concept. But we arent there yet

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              I gave a detailed response to further explain why this applies to meat eating

              Meat eating from once living animals will likely be the next once norm, now evil

              The subjectivity of these takes is my entire point.

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                Damn near everything is subjective dumbass, its why theres so many societal problems that are still around even though they’ve plagued us for centuries

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                  The entire purpose of a moral compass is to not be subjective. I didn’t make the claim that everyone should, or does, live by one set guideline. You did

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            Isn’t all morality subjective, rendering your comment moot?

            Generally accepted morals certainly can be guidelines for behaviors.

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            Plants dont experience life the same way we do dumbass. Do you think its ok to torture a pet cat as fun? Probably not, if so, you already recognize that harming an animal is less ethical than harming one. Really not that hard a concept to grasp. Eat meat, meats fucking delicious, but dont fucking delude yourself into thinking NOT killing an animal isnt less ethical than killing one.

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              Do you think its ok to torture a pet cat as fun? Probably not, if so, you already recognize that harming an animal is less ethical than harming one

              wrong. torture can be wrong while incidental harm may be totally amoral. one has nothing to do with the other.

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                Counterpoint, something can be less moral than another thing WITHOUT being immoral. There are many MANY reasons to continue eating meat in this day and age, being just as moral as not, is NOT one of them

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                  There are many MANY reasons to continue eating meat in this day and age, being just as moral as not, is NOT one of them

                  most ethical systems, in fact, do support that position: meat eating in and of itself is amoral to nearly every ethical system i can think of (and i know a lot)

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                  i have a tendency to write very short comments, but i feel i’ve been misunderstood. let me try again:

                  you set up an claim that, if i’m reading it correctly, says “people believe torturing cats is wrong because they think harming an animal is less ethical than not harming an animal”

                  but that doesn’t necessarily follow. people may believe torturing cats is wrong, and that belief may have nothing to do with the other (that harming an animal is less ethical than not harming an animal). in fact, they can hold that belief without out believing the other at all.

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          problem is that only some well of westerners can reliably eat vegan and cover their nutrient intake, if you are worried about animal cruelty look into sustainable and ethical meet production

          Edit: well off western vegans be mad

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            Spoken like someone who’s never had dirt-cheap lentils or beans & rice in their life that feeds literally billions. But we can delve into precisely what nutrients you’re referring to, versus the average nutrients (or excess of anti-nutrients) the average poor omnivore American gets in their diet. This doesn’t even cover the fact that if you’re poor, then you also are going to struggle to afford sustainable, healthy, and ethical “meet” production just the same.

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              sounds like someone who doesn’t understand that lentils rice and beans does not cover all the nutrients you would need, and thus you would be nutrient deficient. a massive problem for the people stuck eating lentils beans and rice (because hint: it is a massive problem), as for the ability to afford said meat, you don’t need a daily portion of meat.

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                It’s funny how you dodged the substance: Exactly which nutrients are you referring to?

                When we finally get there, it’s going to boggle your mind that Beans & Rice and Lentils have a more diverse nutrient profile, while simultaneously having a greater calorie-density yield per square-mile of farmland.

                That’s not even to raise soybean in combination with rice, which has gone on to feed massive populations of people for cheap in Asia for literally thousands of years…

                Forget the impact to climate change and general sustainability… Meanwhile feed for the animal has to come somewhere, and 60-80% of all meat is fed…Soybean. Perhaps, I dunno — cut out the middle-man… ?

                Edit: The user below is incorrect. 60-80% of soybean production goes straight to the livestock feed. 34.3 million tons of soybean meal goes straight to feeding livestock. By contrast, only 11.9 million metric tons goes to soybean oil production; it’s thus likely the other way around and the extraction of oil is a byproduct of soybean meal production for livestock.

                To drive home the point more clearly:

                The demand for soybeans is currently tied to global meat consumption and is expected to grow, fuelled by Asia.

                To add insult to injury:

                Expressed this way, it is clear that soybean meal actually contributes the bulk of the crushing value of soybeans on a per bushel basis.

                Edit: The user feels as though they proved me wrong, but that graph only aids my case: 76% is used as animal feed. Soybean oil needs processed out and is sold in addition to the soybean meal, and the aforementioned links continue to prove that it is indeed the animal feed that is the most profitable part overall. Thank you. To repeat:

                The demand for soybeans is currently tied to global meat consumption and is expected to grow, fuelled by Asia.

                Per USDA:

                Just over 70 percent of the soybeans grown in the United States are used for animal feed, with poultry being the number one livestock sector consuming soybeans, followed by hogs, dairy, beef and aquaculture

                It continues to amuse me that one cannot find a single source supporting their case that animal feed supply would drop if soybean oil demand dropped. All evidence points to soybean oil being dependent upon animal feed demand in all actuality.

                (Friendly reminder, again, that 2/3 of the Bushel value for the farmer comes from – you guessed it - the processed meal for animal feed. Waste products aren’t generally the driving value-maker).

                Finally, the nail in the coffin:

                "meeting animal [farmers’] needs drives meal demand,” and soy “meal is the engine that drives profitability,

                - United Soybean Board

                Case closed.

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                  the vast majority of the soy that is fed to livestock is the industrial waste from pressing it for oil. feeding it to animals is conserving resources.

                  edit: about 7% of the global soy production goes directly to livestock. about 17% of all the end uses of soy is as soybean oil. since a soybean is only about 20% oil that means that 85% of all the soybeans in the world must be crushed for oil. The industrial waste from that process is called soy cake or soymeal and that is what is fed to livestock. if we didn’t feed it the livestock it would be a waste product.

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        And some civilisations practised human sacrifice. “We did it in the past” isn’t really an arguement.

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          Congratulations, you’ve completely missed the point. Apples and oranges.

          Our bodies grew and developed thanks to the nutrients meat provided. What does that have to do with human sacrifices?

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        Our ancestors hunted wild animals

        Industrialized meat production is horrible and wrong

        That’s the part that is wrong

        Let a pig have a happy life, then kill it. There is no need to force feed it in a coffin size pen for its whole life.

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          I didn’t ask what is wrong with the current industrial approach to farming animals, I asked what is wrong with eating meat.

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            Could you explain which part of eating meat is wrong?

            You said which part.

            That’s the part that is wrong

            When you go to the store and purchase meat from an animal that was kept in inhumane conditions, you are supporting the system.

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        It’s only wrong if you believe hurting other living things is wrong, it depends on your upbringing / mental framework and how you relate those between different species.

        But I believe most people agree that the current way we mass produce meat and how we treat these animals is like a dystopian endgame. If humans were treated like that by a higher intelligence that would be extremely disturbing and cruel. We just accept it as we place the priority on a steak on our plate.

        It is how it is, everyone is ignorant or a hypocrite in some parts of life. Good or bad are only subjective perspectives. But if you look at the harm we cause to other beings with eating meat and in what mechanistic way, that might be one of the things in 100 years we look back at and just can’t fathom.

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        That’s an incredible weak argument. Our ancestors did all kinds of stuff which lead to societies prosperity. Doesn’t make all of it morally right.

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      Circle of life. If I were in the wild and defenseless and animal wouldn’t hesitate to kill me, as it should be. It’s not wrong, it’s nature. Morality isn’t the same from person to person.

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        Quite an assumption. There’s nothing natural in factory farming. Circle of death, that is.

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          You are assuming now. I never said anything about factory farming, just that eating meat was natural. I agree the methods are detestable.

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            You appealed to nature and threw a desert island scenario when the OP is clearly about animals raised in captivity and to be slaughtered way before their natural end of life. Also, eating meat is natural for carnivores. Us omnivores can do well (even better) without animal products.

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              There was no desert island scenario. There was a comparison to eating and being eaten, which is natural in both senses. As omnivores we developed to eat both meats and plants just like all other omnivores on the planet. To deny one part of our natural diet is unhealthy. You seem to have some kind of agenda which I will not be a part of.

              You are entitled to your opinions and I will respect that but I will no longer communicate with you on the subject. Have a good week.

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        I agree with the people here calling out the cruelty of the industrialized meat industry, but eating meat in and of itself is not inherently wrong. The universe seems to consume itself by design—there is a reason Ouroboros (the serpent eating its own tail) is an ancient symbol for eternity. We are in an interlocked system that recycles matter and energy to sustain life.

        Moderation in all things. Don’t take more than you need, but don’t deny yourself either. If I had my druthers, I would much rather be eaten by a cool animal after I die than sit in a box embalmed. Live a good life, and at least the animals you eat will be part of that positive contribution too.

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          I can completely agree the means to get to the end is indeed very cruel. We are all animals and I would not like to be treated so inhumanely just to die. However, eating meat is as natural as breathing.

          I agree that I would rather my body go back into the circle than decay in the ground.

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        Under literally any ethical system you choose.

        Forget harm to the animal for a moment.

        Breeding animals to slaughter is more water, land and time intensive than growing crops, and produces substantially fewer calories for even more land area. Breeding animals to slaughter also generates far more CO2 then crops, either from the animal directly or from transport and butchering processes.

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          Under literally any ethical system you choose.

          deontological ethicists aren’t concerned with the consequences, only the action itself.

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          Under literally any ethical system you choose.

          i don’t know of any divine command theory that says anything like that

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          If it’s pure calories you’re after, might I suggest Uranium? It’s pretty cheap considering what you can theoretically get out of it.

          ^/s

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          letting a cow graze a field and killing it next year takes way less time than tilling and planting and fertilizing and watering and harvesting.

              • And I don’t think you’ve ever considered the amount of food and water required for just a kilo of meat.

                Hint: It’s exponentially more than a kilo of veggies or grains.

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                  you haven’t been reading what I’m writing.

                  buy a cow. put it in a pasture. come back in 18 months.

                  OR

                  buy seed. till. plant. water. feed. harvest.

                  the time investment per calorie is vastly different.

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            Correct me if I’m wrong, but aren’t most pastures also planted, fertilized, and watered? You’re also assuming infinite land here - I don’t know shit about farming, but the first google hit I got suggests that cows need about 1.8 acres of pasture per year.

            1 cow, consuming 1.8 acres of land, produces on the scale of 0.5 to 1.4 million calories, according to this estimate

            However farming produces up to 18 million calories per acre, so if you were growing potatoes you’d have 32 million calories. On the same land that produced up to 1.4 million calories via grazing cow.

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              You’re also assuming infinite land here

              no, i’m not. i was comparing the work done to plant a field of potatoes against raising an equivalent amount of cattle. i’m making no sweeping policy proposals.

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                Great, in a vacuum, and assuming efficiency of land does not matter, you are correct in saying it takes less work to produce less calories.

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                  not just in a vaccuum but literally any time you have the option to plant a field or put a cow in it, it will always be less work to put a cow in it.

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              However farming produces up to 18 million calories per acre, so if you were growing potatoes you’d have 32 million calories. On the same land that produced up to 1.4 million calories via grazing cow.

              so? the work of lettin a cow eat what grows is still less work than planting, tending, and harvesting.

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              aren’t most pastures also planted, fertilized, and watered?

              no. they’re grasslands, and hilly terrain or rocky soil is a common feature of land designated as pastures because of the difficulty of working the land.

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              https://www.northamptonseed.com/pastures

              if you ask a seed salesman whether you should buy his product for your pasture, he’ll try to sell it to you. but no, for the most part pasture management is very low intensity: repair fences and deter predators. these have direct analogues in raising crops though in warding off pests that would eat the crops.

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            Not relevant. The field that is used to grow food stock for animals could have been used to grow food stock for humans. Potatoes have a high calorie count and are not particularly difficult to grow.

            You’ll get far more calories out of the field of potatoes than a field of cows, unless you’re packing them in at the same density as the potato plants which I’m assuming you’re not.

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              The field that is used to grow food stock for animals could have been used to grow food stock for humans.

              often, it is. as i said, most of the crops fed to animals are parts of plants people can’t or won’t eat.

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              You’ll get far more calories out of the field of potatoes than a field of cows,

              if the land is unsuitable for crop production, you can often still raise cattle on it.

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                You still need to grow food to feed the cattle, if only for winter stock, so you have to find a fertile field to grow food stock, so that field could be used for growing crops and the field that’s unsuitable for anything else could just be, well not used. There’s absolutely no scenario where cattle are going to be more sustainable than crops.

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                  you can feed cattle silage and crop seconds from food grown for people. you don’t need to plant crops just to feed cattle.

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                  There’s absolutely no scenario where cattle are going to be more sustainable than crops.

                  wrong.

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                  the field that’s unsuitable for anything else could just be, well not used

                  why, though? making food is a good use of land.

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          Much more land can be used for growing animals than for growing crops. And without animals there would be no dung so the only way to let crops grow would be chemical fertilizer (which is made of oil).

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            You’re talking about a different issue which is food shortages.

            There is absolutely no shortage of arable land on earth, the problem is it isn’t evenly distributed but that’s an easy enough problem to solve if we actually wanted to solve it. The solution isn’t cattle.

            It’s obviously not the solution because if it was the solution there wouldn’t be world hunger, you can’t feed millions of people on cow.

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              Well, you have full permission to eat my corpse if I die first. Because it’s pretty psychotic to demand that another person die to preserve a body you don’t need anymore.

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                I’ve never given this much thought before, however I’d argue that once you view other humans as food, your interactions change.

                If you’re stuck in a mountain and your partner breaks a leg, if you view them as a food source you’re much less inclined to provide aid. “It sure would be a shame if you died”.

                viewing humans as food is essentially a prisoners dilemma - society has an agreement to not do so (similarly to how folks don’t snitch in prisoners dilemma). This encourages more mutual aid between members of society for the reason I described above.

                It just takes one party who thinks it’s acceptable to eat a person before coming across hardship for the final night’s of a stranded group to be spent eying each other in suspicion.

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          It’s neither moral nor immoral to eat any of those things… “moral” is objectively not a word that holds any context whatsoever in a conversation about food…

          If you would literally die before you would eat another human, you are psychologically broken. Your decision not to do that except as a last resort has nothing to do with morality whatsoever. It’s simply adherence to societal standards, rules, and personal standards.

          If the neighbor’s pet is a pig or cow, it would literally be the first thing I ate if food truly became scarce enough to warrant that effort and upset. If it’s another animal, it simply follows the hierarchy of preference all humans have established for themselves. Zero morality involved.

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      Either accept that you’re in the wrong but doing it anyway (as I am) or change

      Lmao “you don’t get to actually disagree and the only options are you being wrong.”

      Nah. Animals are lesser than people, and it’s fine to eat them

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          Sure? I don’t think they’d taste very good, but some cultures eat dogs. There’s definitely a hungry enough that I’d eat dog, and it’s way before shit like shoe leather

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          No. I also wouldn’t be fine if you ate other stuff that I have for purposes other than eating, like a chocolate sculpture.

          Edit: Misread. My answer is yes.

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            Who said I would eat YOUR stuff? What if I purchased a puppy from a breeder (hence, my property), raised it till it was three, slaughtered it one day, marinated its meat, stuffed its ass with some of those noice spices, chucked it in the oven and served it to my kids for Thanksgiving? Would that be animal abuse?

            Let’s go a step further. Let’s start a breeding farm for kittens.

            “Meow”

            “Shut the fuck up u furball! Now get into my fryer you! Gotta keep our Kentucky Fried Kittens profitable, don’t we?”

            Would that be animal abuse? Would I be allowed to start my KFC alternative- KFK?

            “KFK- Tasty, Cute, Meow meow”

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              Oh, sorry, I somehow misread your comment as “if I killed and ate your puppies and kittens”. I gotta read more careful next time.

              Now get into my fryer you!

              (That kinda sounds like you’d want to fry the animal without killing it before, which would obviously be animal abuse.)

              If you don’t abuse the animal, it’s ok that you eat kittens and puppies.

              That being said, I myself would still not want eat cat meat, because cats resemble humans too much, and because we interact with them a bit like they were human. For similar reasons I also wouldn’t want to eat ape meat, for example.

              What sort of meat someone wants to eat can’t only be as rigid as either anything but human or anything but animal. One could for example decide not to eat any mammal meat, but still eat fish and bird. Or one could not want to eat the meat of any life-form, nor exploit any life-form for their needs (how gross of you to hold trees in masses and rip off their unborn offspring!), though living like that would be super difficult as of now. It just so happens to be that many people decide that lamb meat is ok for them to eat.

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        Yea, animal are basically slaves. They feed us and keep the ecosystem going. They are property, not individual.

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          Slavery was bad because it was people treating people like animals, so no they’re not like slaves, slaves were like them.

          Important distinction

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    Do you ever feel like modern society just wants to be outraged all of the time?

    In the unlikely event humanity survives our many man made crises of this era, might this come to have been known as the Karen Age?

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      That’s because the threshold for writing “X causes outrage” in a headline is “one random nobody tweeted angrily about it”. For any given topic you can always find at least a single person who is angry about it. So this might just as well be known as the Shitty Clickbait Journalism Age.

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      Outrage sells clicks and views better than anything except maybe disaster with a side of pretty young white girl.

      They want to sell you outrage. So that’s what you see all the time.

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        Indeed. It’s less modern society and more three Twitter handles that are probably the same person retweeting themselves because you can find someone saying anything on Twitter to justify any made up faux outrage headline.

        Meanwhile the ‘smart’ people eat it up. How many comments in this thread lol?

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      Do you ever feel like modern society just wants to be outraged all of the time?

      How DARE you! (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻

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      Just someone outraged.

      Most people probably moved on without any reactions.

      Some stayed leaving comments for whatever reason.

      The story we hear is written by the latter group, even if it is a tiny minority.

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      I think that’s part of it. I think it is also caused by the fact that everyone is outraged by different things. If you get a big enough audience someone is bound to be outraged about something even if everyone is being mostky reasonable.

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      Because you’re gonna eat the whole lobster yourself. You’d have to get a quorum of the other customers who are going to eat it.

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      You can if you go buy one from a farmer. In many rural places, you can then take it (or have it sent) to a butcher, and then pick up your coolers of fresh meat cuts to fill your deep freezer at home. I know people who do this, say once or twice a year. Better quality meat, often the animal had a better life on a local small farm, and per pound, far better price over the course of the year.

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      You absolutely can it’s just logistically awkward. Just think about it, how often do you eat lobster versus how often you eat steak?

      But I’m fairly sure that if you turned up at a farm you can actually do this, at least once or twice. Although long term I’m not sure it would be in the farmers interest because it’s probably more hassle than it’s worth.

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        There’s also hanging time if they mean literally at the restaurant.

        Farms do this all the time, but they just take an order for a whole or half a steer and deliver it to the butchers. Who picks it up depends on circumstances. I don’t know if people do half on smaller live stock.

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    I looked and this isn’t satire. Somehow.

    Any meat eater who is offended by his statements needs to find a big ol mirror and stare in it until they ratify that feeling with their diet.

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      That headline is probably based on a single tweet by some nobody, and they’re probably vegan.

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        …and they’re probably vegan.

        I’m not so sure about that. I think lots of vegans would appreciate lampshading the brutality of slaughtering cute little baby sheep.

        My bet would be on an omnivore that thinks of themselves as an animal lover getting upset by being made to feel cognitive dissonance.

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    Ironic, maybe stopping eating meat if you think it’s horrible to view animals as walking meals?

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      One can eat meat without celebrating that an animal had to die to get it. The celebration just makes you look like a serial killer…

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        look you’re still murdering animals either way, ramsay just isn’t pretending meat comes from plastic packages

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            I would argue that looking at a live animal and saying it looks tasty is normal, especially compared with other omnivores and carnivores. Looking at a processed hamburger and saying the same thing is much less natural IMO

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              Would you taste a living farm animal? When I used to eat meat, even then hell no. All dirt, fur, hooves and shit. I’m vegan and even I understand why butchers exist

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              If you want to limit this to what’s “natural”, you had better be eating all your meat raw. Saying a live animal looks tasty makes it sound like you want to eat it alive.

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        Are you an animal? Yes. Do lions fucking mourn their kill?no that’d make them insane. It’s crazy to feel bad about being a natural predator lol!

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          Do lions make videos saying “Yummy, yummy” about their prey? No, so it’s kind of a bad metaphor.

          There’s nothing wrong with respecting the animals you eat, and we should always treat animals as well as we can, especially if we eat them. It could be argued that the video kinda undermines that message, so I kinda agree that it was a bad joke.

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            Lions dont have cameras, can’t make words, and don’t have the ability to reason.

            You’re kind of unintentionally proving why eating animals is non big deal. They’re fundamentally lesser beings.

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              I didn’t say eating animals was bad. I said we should have respect for animals we eat, specifically because we have to kill it to eat it.

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                Well then I apologize because I misinterpreted and thank you for taking the time to clarify.

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      How is that at all ironic. People are protesting his savagery in his behavior prior to doing something most of us do and have always done since the beginning of time.

      It’s obvious to the rest of us (obviously not you) that we’re upset not about his meal eating, but because of his taunting and his apathy.

      Just you out here pushing self-confirming narratives

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    What doesn’t outrage tiktok? Wait until they find out people who fish are generally super excited about hooking a fish.

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        I never really understand why people find it so entertaining to make fun of vegetarians and vegans.

        Their choice results in less suffering, plain and simple. Maybe you aren’t willing to change your diet, that’s your decision. But if others are willing to put effort into changing their diets and become vegetarian because it’s in line with their values, that’s admirable and should be applauded.

        Please don’t make fun of people who put time and energy into pursuing their values. Not if you don’t see yourself as a bully.

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          I can go into detail on this, actually. It centers around personal insecurity, and a lack of empathy. Let me explain:

          Keep in mind I used to eat meat. I’ve been a vegetarian for well over 10 years now.

          So often they joke or sometimes project with, “how do you know someone’s a vegetarian/vegan? They’ll tell you.”

          Now I get this can just be a joke, but oftentimes it comes off more passive-aggressive, reeking of insecurity. So entertain some possible reasons why vegetarians / vegans “tell you”:

          Whose experience has been that bad with vegetarians/vegans, truly? Apart from what’s perpetuated and inflated in media and pop-culture. I’m literally surrounded by 97% of meat-eaters. How do I know they’re meat-eaters? I can guess because… 97% are meat-eaters. And that’s fine. But my sample of meat-eaters mocking what I choose to eat is far larger than the reverse. 3% means you aren’t bumping into too many of us. Speaking for myself, most of the moral arguments are fanned by those wondering why I chose to be one and cornered me into revealing I am a vegetarian (usually because the office or my group of friends is getting lunch or something, or I’m offered something I cannot have). Every single time I kindly explain my reasons and make an effort to note, “I don’t care what anyone else does, I just want to do my thing and lead by my own example.” Yet understand: it was THEY who asked ME. Food and eating with people is just an event that happens frequently. As a result it’s bound to happen that someone orders you something you can’t eat or attempts to and you explain to them why you cannot. They ask what you brought for lunch and the moment tofu crosses your mouth, cue the questions. Apparently they resent this and store this as ammunition later, and then remember it being you getting on a soapbox telling them what an awful person they are. (That’s probably their inner-conscience talking).

          So — duh — it’s because you asked.

          I assure you, speaking as a former meat-eater who was a meat-eater longer than a vegetarian, we receive A LOT more shit than we dish out. Most of us just want to do our thing and not even tell you. I don’t particularly like the attention when it’s pointed out — as is the case with most of my peers. I don’t mind questions, I just want mutual respect for my choices. Thus considering the sheer ratio of encounters between omnivores/carnivores vs. Plant-based diets, combined with the fact that most vegetarians/vegans have at one point been on the other side while the reverse isn’t true, I’d say people me know better the perspectives of both positions.

          The problem is that diet becomes deeply personal and political for people. When they see someone else do something they don’t feel they can do themselves, then they either (a) try to elevate themselves above that person (case-in-point with @straypet below), or (b) try to bring the other person down. This has everything to do with ego and self-esteem.

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          If they mock and put down the ones making better choices, they won’t feel as bad about themselves for their own poorer choices.