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In my observation, millennials are the perfect consumers. They do not stand up for anything. They have forgotten all the neccessary "fights for a better world" of the former generation, for the environment, for peace, for better social justice etc. and not adopted the ones of the younger ones, like vegans etc.
Veganism, or at least vegetarianism, was the first thing that crossed my mind. I bet future generations will not look kindly on us for eating meat. And yet still, I can't turn down a good burger.
until we have a viable alternative it's a choice between your ethics or your health and I don't think we can begrudge anyone for choosing either one, especially when industrial agriculture make both option equally terrible.
a single cow can feed a single human for a year. eating meat isn't the problem it's the incredible amount of food waste and disrespect for the sacrifice that will be looked down upon.
Even if we do keep eating meat eating cows is about as wasteful as it gets. People should get over themselves and forget about their steaks once and for all. It truly is a disgusting practice of the same magnitude of environmental and ethical harm as burning fossil fuels to fuel your insane shopping addictions.
it's like arguing over different types of combustion engines. at the end of the day we need to feed 8 billion people and it simply isn't possible without industrial food production. and cows could be the best option because saturated fat is the most energy dense food but people only want to eat that 1 cut they like so we get the situation we're in now where cows are almost the worst possible option.
I say almost because at lest they aren't being ground up alive in a combine harvester so people can feel smug about not eating that meat.