I wonder how many mice died for the bun (and forests too)
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QuaffPotions@lemmy.world 5 months ago
How many burgers were served? Multiply that by a hundred to get an estimate of how many innocent cows were slaughtered for this circus. But sure, it being cheap food is the thing to complain about.
psud@lemmy.world 5 months ago
QuaffPotions@lemmy.world 5 months ago
If you’re referring to crop deaths, you should know that nonsense has been so thoroughly debunked that anyone should feel embarrassed to be perpetuating that lie still.
commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
what they asked is how many died for the bun. not whether you think that line of reasoning is sufficient to discourage veganism.
QuaffPotions@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Yes, and odds are they are asking as a way to bring up the idea of how many animals are killed in order to harvest plant crops. If you had bothered to go to the link, it would have at least somewhat answered your question because the short version is: fundamentally, significantly less than the amount of animals killed to produce meat.
All it takes is to think it through. If harvesting crops kills a lot of animals (which as the link shows, is already significantly less than some assholes made it up to be), then raising animals for food automatically kills even more animals because it takes way more crops to feed the animals that are raised for meat or dairy, than it takes to just feed humans directly.
discostjohn@programming.dev 5 months ago
Your logic implies that a hundred cows are killed to source a single burger. That’s not how that works. Be vegan, but don’t be stupid.
archonet@lemy.lol 5 months ago
I think you found the problem there, sport.
QuaffPotions@lemmy.world 5 months ago
My math was bad admittedly - I didn’t take into account that most or all of those patties likely came from the same processing facility; so that even if 100 body parts are in one patty, 100 patties might contain the tissues of the same 100 cows that were slaughtered. In all that table might be a picture of 100, 1,000, or 10,000 body parts mutilated beyond recognition and mixed together.
My intent was not to suggest that it takes 100 cows to make one burger, that would be untrue. My intent was to point out exactly what the article was getting at, which is to recognize that when someone looks at most ground meat products, they are looking at a grotesque slurry of what used to be not just one living being, but the combined flesh of as many as a hundred or more once-living sentient beings.
discostjohn@programming.dev 5 months ago
Yeah that’s true. Pretty horrific when you picture it.