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you should give it trigger warning before your link gore

I thought we were discussing ecological impacts. this seems to be an entirely different r discussion.

causes them to make less e missions.

that has never happened

you accusation of addiction is a personal attack. it has no bearing on the truth of any of the claims I've made.

why is the bar "absolute need for survival"?

no one is torturing animals

It’s so obviously wrong that buying food is never an immoral act.

I allowed that there may be some reason buying some food might be immoral.

Analogies don’t indicate a similar level of morality.

i didnt suggest they did. i'm saying that buying food is disanalagous to rape.

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to be clear, rape is wrong. buying food is not. you don't not-rape in order to reduce rape. you don't-rape because rape is wrong. by contrast, the goal of not-buying meat is to reduce the environmental impact of the meat industry. if that doesn't work, then not-buying meat is not a moral duty (at least, not for that reason. it's possible there is some other reason, but that's not the topic being discussed).

If your head was any further down in the sand, the magma would melt it.

this is a thought terminating cliche

You honestly think that factory farm emissions font change if people don’t give them money for their product?

have you tried that?

if you were proposing an effective solution i'd be all for it. we've had vegans since the 1940s, and it has not stopped the growth of agriculture industries. they have become more efficient, but i'm not sure that's either good or attributable to vegans.

And how do we get a larger community of people to start something like this? Oh, I don’t know, maybe send your idea out on a forum of like minded people (such as people expressing concern about the environment) and hope to inspire others that actually care to make a change in their own habits.

let me know how that works out for you.