Re:What You Can Do About Climate Change
by greglindahl on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @01:34AM
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Wait, are you saying that "having a couple of hens in your backyard" is similar to buying eggs from the grocery store? Because the typical vegetarian eating eggs doesn't get them from hens in their backyard.
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No, this is different for me but apparently not for vegans (no animal product of any sort because it's exploitative, every animal is a person, etc).
Re:What You Can Do About Climate Change
by greglindahl on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @11:13AM
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The vegans I know call one bad and the other worse. However, the point that I was getting at is that you're recommending that people be vegetarians instead of vegans because of the environmental efficiency of feeding chickens scraps in the backyard, but almost everyone doesn't have a backyard, or chickens.
Unfortunately this is a deep political problem I don't feel like treating in a HN comment box :)
I'd simply say that I think that we need to reorganize our world at a simpler scale, build smaller communities, sharing more local resources (like backyards and chickens and potato plots), step back on globalisation, reduce our consumption and environmental footprint, reduce division of labour, share work more, ...