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Re:Chile’s salmon farms may use more antibiotics than any ot... by enord on Monday January 15, 2018 @05:48AM (#16149770)
I dispute that encouraging people to eat less meat will make enough of a difference in this case to, well, make a difference. It's not wrong, it's just too much self-congratulatory blame-shifting with a moral message as the end itself.

These kinds of problems need results, not feel-good activist sentiment woo. People are dying.

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Re:Chile’s salmon farms may use more antibiotics than any ot... by xtrapolate on Monday January 15, 2018 @09:56AM (#16150847)
Are you suggesting that the change is too slow/not drastic enough? Or perhaps that a change isn't taking place at-all in the first place, that it's all just hot air?
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Re:Chile’s salmon farms may use more antibiotics than any ot... by enord on Monday January 15, 2018 @02:38PM (#16152822)
Indeed, we have to be confident that the mechanism of intervention will have the desired effect, and in time before we run out of antibiotic alternatives.

I say that anything less than that is worse than useless, because we're spending wasted effort (mindshare, attention) when time is, to the best of our knowledge, running out.

Now i don't know that personal activism and moral campaigning will be insufficient in this case, it just smells that way to me. It also has a certain fragrance of moral superiority and virtue signalling about it, which i guess triggers me, or something.

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