Eat less meat: UN climate change report calls for change to human diet

Re:Eat less meat: UN climate change report calls for change ... by Kaiyou on Friday August 09, 2019 @10:54AM (#20654919)

How would you survive if everything eadible could scream? Also, not sure why the screaming part is important. Plants are alive, too and they do feel pain. They just can't express this, similar to autists.

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Re:Eat less meat: UN climate change report calls for change ... by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Friday August 09, 2019 @11:30AM (#20655253)

You'd still choose plants, because otherwise you're eating animals that themselves must feed on plants. Even from a coldly mathematical perspective you cause less suffering eating plants than animals.

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Re:Eat less meat: UN climate change report calls for change ... by Kaiyou on Monday August 12, 2019 @03:34AM (#20673285)

Wouldn't you then have to eat predators, so they can't kill other animals? Predators are guilty of causing suffering, plants are innocent.

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Re:Eat less meat: UN climate change report calls for change ... by nkozyra on Friday August 09, 2019 @11:23AM (#20655180)

> How would you survive if everything eadible could scream?

That would certainly change the conversation. But given that there is dubious support for plants "feeling" pain in a sentient way, I don't see much reason to entertain it.

That said, my diet is mostly fruit, nuts and seeds anyway.

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Re:Eat less meat: UN climate change report calls for change ... by Kaiyou on Thursday August 15, 2019 @10:42AM (#20705633)

There's dubious support for animals "feeling" pain in a sentient way, too. I can't see why your empathy stops at plants.

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