Skipping around a bit, to establish some context:
Next, you’ll be telling me that rising sea levels will make Earth uninhabitable by the year 2000. You are obviously not old enough to remember that, and most people anyway forget each week what they read the last week; but I have a long memory...
Yep cant remember the year 2000, I wasn
’t even born for a few years after that
.I could tell that you were young, but I didn’t realize that you were
that young. Perhaps I was confused by the amount of money that you have sometimes claimed to be throwing around. Most teenagers are financially unsophisticated, and also broke.
Now, a critical thinking question: To remember predictions made about a
future Year 2000, how old would you need to be?
I’m not doxing my age here. I “remember” things from the 1950s, and the 1930s, and the 1770s—and 480 B.C. Because I study history. The latest exemplars that I recall of doomsday climate change predictions for the Year 2000 were from the late 1980s. I may or may not personally remember the 1980s from direct experience.
Obiter dictum, I always find it remarkable to talk to people who don’t remember a world before Facebook, Twitter, and
anthropoid cattle tracking devices “smart” phones.
(Viz., before proper punctuation became unfashionable.) Or America’s global terror-war of bombing people into “freedom” to stop The Terrorists. Or...
If any of us survives the near future, then perhaps someday you will have a similar view of people who are too young to remember the world before “the Covid New Normal”. Do you remember what the world was like before Covid? —Will you remember that in twenty years—in forty years? How will you perceive the children who were born after? How warped, twisted, and shallow will their worldview seem to you, when they are adults who never knew the world in which you grew up?
I challenge you to think about this, so as to shift your perspective. When you view the world this way, you can transcend the narrow contextual bubble of the present and become a bit of a time traveller.
My, how convenient this is for BigCorp agribiz. You believe that the type of meat best produced by small, independent farmers on land that they own (and presumably care about) is “the most unsustainable”.
Not really convenient for them, I believe all meat is unsustainable and unethical,
[← This is a run-on sentence, but it’s ok, we have bigger problems to fix first, because the “education” received by persons born after the Year 2000 is evidently even more abominable than I had hereto imagined.]That seems to be both your premise and your conclusion.
[...] local farms just happen to be smaller business and as a fundamental law of economics, they cannot scale as how larger corporations can. [← See? You can do it!] But even with all the scaling it’s still incredibly unsustainable and by the nature of efficiency it is much crueler, which is why I don’t eat any animal products.
Scaling doesn’t usually work the way that people expect. For example, as we all know, to “scale” Bitcoin by raising the blocksize limit would have many negative consequences which may not seem obvious in advance: Explosion in the UTXO set size (a resource-intensive burden to all nodes), increased orphan rate for miners, etc., etc.. It is not only a matter of more disk space.
To scale up meat production by packing animals into little boxes, injecting them full of crap, and feeding them utter garbage is not what I would call “sustainable” in any way. I would not even call it “productive”, insofar as both process and product are inferior.
It is, of course, not so different than packing so-called “humans” into modern urban environments, injecting them full of crap, feeding them utter garbage... You are a cow managed by an iDroid device.
By close analogy, this reminds me of the time that I saw an advertisement proudly touting “corn-fed beef”, as if that were a good thing for anyone other than the large corporations that control the corn markets, and their pesticide providers, and the stockholders thereof, and their bankers.
Cows are already fed corn amongst other feed pretty sure, this is just marketing BS to put on a higher price tag on the crap product they are already selling
.In this context, “corn-fed” would implicitly stand in contradistinction to “grass-fed”. The latter ideally means letting the cattle walk around in a pasture, and munch on what they please. The difference in meat quality is significant; I am not only joking about it.
Obviously, grazing cattle is less efficient from a bean-counting business perspective. Among other things, it requires land husbandry to prevent overgrazing from ruining the pastures.
Anyway, enjoy believing whatever garbage you have loaded into a brain that is operating suboptimally due to your vegan diet.
I believed everything I said
before I was vegan too, which is why I'm vegan in the first place.
[← Wow! Another period! I am soooo proud of you. — People say that I am a jerk; and although I DGAF about their opinions, I figure that I may as well try some so-called “positive reïnforcement” for good behaviour. How is it working? Are you feeling reïnforced yet? Sigh. Being helpful can sometimes be so thankless.]I once knew someone who had switched to a vegan diet as a teenager. She permanently stunted her adolescent growth, so she always looked rather odd in an unpleasant way. I’m not sure how much of that was intentional; it seems she did intentionally starve herself outright. I infer that she probably had an underlying eating disorder, which manifested in her becoming a vegan
zealot. When she was in her twenties, she had a series of mental breakdowns that occasionally required hospitalization; she would be in her forties now... Anyway, I haven’t only read about veganism on the Internet. I have known a number of vegans IRL. All of them were, without exception, quite insane. But that is unsurprising; what always surprised me about them was the smell—a subtle sort of a cloying sick-animal smell that hung in the air about them. I have the nose of a dog, so I pick up on such things as others do not.
By the way, no: I do not actually eat an all-meat diet. But that is only because I cannot afford it. I was too much of an idealist when I was your age. I did not care about money until, in the course of years, I learned the hard way that although money cannot buy happiness, it can prevent unhappiness! For example, if you have money, then you can afford to have a Platinum account for emergencies.
...for the record, I advocate humane slaughter.
Stress at the end ruins the juicy taste of freedom and happiness in the meat.
Depending on where you live, "Humane" is a gas chamber, or a knife to the throat
.You know those scary-looking electric stun bolts that PETA misrepresents as cruel? Those are
anesthetics. Anesthetics need not be chemical! Look it up in a resource about animal husbandry, not a PETA pamphlet.
Given the choice between being killed while conscious, versus being zapped into instant unconsciousness and then killed, I am guessing that you would probably prefer to be zapped. From my perspective, it will keep you juicy and delicious; humane butchers actually examine meat for stress marks that are indicia of low quality.
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