• yeahiknow3@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 months ago

    The number of animals killed annually for human consumption is somewhere north of 50 billion. That’s 50 thousand million.

    I want the billionaires dead as much as the next guy, but what you’re saying is not the mathematical reality, and while changing economic systems will lead to justice and fairness, it won’t even begin to solve our ecological problems. It might even worsen them, since our goal would be, presumably, to end poverty and increase standards of living.

    Or is that not the plan?

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      3 months ago

      I didn’t create the meat industry as it exists. Corporations did. I don’t eat an animal unless it’s local, sustainable fish. Even the poor people eating meat aren’t to blame. We didn’t create this system

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        3 months ago

        I’m not blaming you. It’s a chicken and egg problem when it comes to any industry. The fact is that people like eating fish and pigs and cows, and we need them to stop. That’s the bottom line.