23/01/2025
Inappropriate memes from aside, there is no such thing as a “bloodless diet” 🤷♂️
“A lifestyle that embraces a “least harm” approach needs to take into consideration the lives lost needlessly to grow crops at an industrial scale. On the other hand, when we support responsible livestock producers, we minimise harm while maximising the benefit to humanity by generating bioavailable nutrition and other products derived from the use of the whole animal.
If you value the lives of rabbits or chipmunks much as that of a cow, killing one well-raised animal that will feed a family for months is actually causing less death than the modern row-cropping techniques we would need to switch the world over to a plant-based diet.
Doing the least harm to living things is a noble aim, but abandoning animal products and pretending you’ve suddenly absolved yourself of any responsibility for animal death or suffering is a childish fantasy, and speaks to a more fundamental disconnection from complex systems in nature.
Given that death is an unavoidable element of all food production, and that the nutrients in animal products are necessary for optimal human living, why not work towards a sustainable food system that values the life it creates rather than defending a system that depletes soil, pollutes our surroundings, and has little regard for the lives that are a part of it?
You can be pro-meat and pro-planet at the same time.”
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