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- Comment on Veganism is pro-fossil fuel 4 weeks ago:
eating meat is absolutely justifiable.
- Comment on Honey 4 weeks ago:
Care to elaborate?
poore-nemecek is bad science that misused LCA data and drew wild conclusions by, as i said, myopically distilling disparate studies with disparate methodology into discrete datapoints. we cannot rely on this methodology to understand the industry.
- Comment on Honey 4 weeks ago:
Given that 80% of all agricultural land is used to feed and raise animals
that’s not a given, though. about 93% of all soybeans are used by humans, but about 77% of the cropweight is fed to animals. how can this be reconciled? because we press about 85% of the soybeans for oil, and the byproduct is fed to animals. so we can’t say 77% of the land used to grow soybeans is used for animals. 93% is for humans. this myopic focus on distilling all facets of the industry into discrete datapoints fails to understand the system as a whole.
- Comment on Honey 4 weeks ago:
the goal of veganism is to reduce animal exploitation.
- Comment on Honey 4 weeks ago:
the vegan society definition makes no mention of consent at all, only exploitation
- Comment on Honey 4 weeks ago:
Beef and dairy? Causes huge amount of greenhouse gasses and with current methods of production, it is not sustainable
what makes you think this?
- Comment on Honey 4 weeks ago:
Eating animals and their secretions requires harming significantly more plants than eating the plants directly because animals need to be fed too,
and they are mostly fed parts of plants that people can’t or won’t eat. the same field that grows soybeans for human consumption is growing animal feed, it’s just different parts of the plant.
- Comment on Lemmy's gaining popularity, so I thought new people should see this. 4 weeks ago:
you are putting specific terminology in place of the words as written,and claiming it’s a clear connotation, when it is not
- Comment on Compulsory Meat In Schools Should Be Scrapped, Says Dale Vince 1 month ago:
no, it’s not.
- Comment on Compulsory Meat In Schools Should Be Scrapped, Says Dale Vince 1 month ago:
it would be if it caused the industry to pollute less or even just stop growing. it doesn’t.
- Comment on Scrap law making schools serve meat, says Labour donor Vince Dale 1 month ago:
why is your “update” over a decade old? how often are they released?
- Comment on Compulsory Meat In Schools Should Be Scrapped, Says Dale Vince 1 month ago:
ignoring corruption is gross. trying to distract from it with a whataboutism Is some degree worse
- Comment on We can post about feeding on them just not about feeding them 2 months ago:
stop wasting both of our time.
you’re free to not respond at any time.
- Comment on We can post about feeding on them just not about feeding them 2 months ago:
Approximately 0.01% of lemmy’s user base would conflate simple “use” with exploitation.
can you substantiate this?
- Comment on stop 2 months ago:
- Comment on We can post about feeding on them just not about feeding them 2 months ago:
I’m surprised you don’t have a better understanding of exploitation
you have no idea what my understanding is. that’s not the subject of our discussion. don’t make this personal.
we are discussing the vegan society’s understanding.
- Comment on We can post about feeding on them just not about feeding them 2 months ago:
the barest definition is a synonym of “use”. the vegan society could clear up this ambiguity but they have chosen not to do so, and there is no reason to assume they prefer a special definition of exploitation.
- Comment on We can post about feeding on them just not about feeding them 2 months ago:
The absence of exploitation is indicated through consent,
no, it’s not. it’s exploitation by the barest consent, like exploiting a fallow field or a forest. the definition of exploitation can by synonymously defined as “use”. using a corpse is exploiting it. using a corpse which has, with informed consent, been consigned for use is still exploitation.
- Comment on We can post about feeding on them just not about feeding them 2 months ago:
if the vegan society wants to create an additional carve-out for consensual exploitation in addition to its exceptions for practicability and possibility, it’s not as though they are unaware of these concepts. they have not done so, and there is no reason to believe they mean to do so.
- Comment on We can post about feeding on them just not about feeding them 2 months ago:
Your assertion was that consent isn’t at all relevant to veganism in regards to exploitation. However, if there exist situations in which consent could relieve the existence of exploitation then it must be relevant to consider.
it’s not clear that the vegan society would allow for any exploitation, consensual or otherwise, and to the extent that sometimes people consent to being exploited, there is no reason to believe that exploitation ceases to exist in those cases.
- Comment on We can post about feeding on them just not about feeding them 2 months ago:
three mentions across 2 paragraphs. all of the mentions imply that consent would somehow relieve accusations of exploitation, but that isn’t established in your article for a certainty, and at best i’d say it’s debatable. i don’t care to debate about it. it’s clear that the vulgar use of the term is unrelated entirely.
- Comment on We can post about feeding on them just not about feeding them 2 months ago:
to be clear, dictionaries record the most common uses of terms. consulting a philosophy encyclopedia is not a good way to understand a term as it is used in vulgar vernacular.
- Comment on We can post about feeding on them just not about feeding them 2 months ago:
encyclopedias are not dictionaries
- Comment on stop 2 months ago:
you can leave
- Comment on Lemmy wouldn't really takeoff to replace Reddit until it's content is search indexable 2 months ago:
bye
- Comment on We can post about feeding on them just not about feeding them 2 months ago:
common definitions of exploitation make no mention of consent either.
- Comment on We can post about feeding on them just not about feeding them 2 months ago:
veganism eschews all exploitation. there is no carve out for consent in the vegan society’s definition
- Comment on Is there a house advantage in a "double-or-nothing" coin flip game? 2 months ago:
the house can only make $1 per play, and the bettor can make a functionally unlimited amount.
see the martingale strategy. you are basically sticking the house with a martingale strategy in which you get to decide when they get.
- Comment on So Starbucks’ CEO commutes to work by private jet? Let’s not pretend the super-rich care about the planet 2 months ago:
rich people decide whether we can make the changes necessary
- Comment on Why are vegan and gluten free items more expensive? 2 months ago:
it’s storytelling, not science