• BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      I still don’t understand this logic. Every single product made is consumed by an individual or a business in a chain that eventually sells products to individuals.

      Industry exists to supply consumption, and the only customer is humans.

      • buwho@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        but when you dont regulate corporations they will exploit and destroy anything and everything to monopolize and capitalize to the fullest extent. its not that the consumption of meat is bad, from a responsible regenerative agroforestry standpoint raising animals can help your regenerative agriculture system. it is monoculture and monopolization of the industry, pushing out responsible small scale community providers etc. that produce in a more ecologically responsible way. not to negate that populations consuming a lot of meat daily do end up becoming a market for irresponsible producers that “need to keep up with demand” to continually profit.

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          1 year ago

          Meat is in fact bad, you have to grow plants to feed animals and the ratio of feed to meat produced is really really low, around 1:10 If you use those plants to instead directly provide nutrition to humans the ratio is 1:1

          Responsible meat production uses orders of magnitude more land, which there simply isn’t enough of if we wanted to replace our current meat consumption levels.

          Either we can reduce consumption, keep polluting, or look at some of these alternative technologies like lab grown meat.