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Re:How to lower the price of plant-based meat by tomp on Saturday February 06, 2021 @08:47PM (#26051875)
I fully support this. I think it would result in a lot of good innovation - e.g. ways to raise meat while reducing carbon (including methane) emissions.

But ONLY if externalities are also fully priced & included for all other products - cars, plastic crap shipped from China, aircon, ... otherwise that kind of legislation is simply discrimination against meat-lovers.

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Re:How to lower the price of plant-based meat by atweiden on Sunday February 07, 2021 @12:16AM (#26052842)
> But ONLY if externalities are also fully priced & included for all other products - cars, plastic crap shipped from China, aircon, ... otherwise that kind of legislation is simply discrimination against meat-lovers.

Meat has a victim [1]. Respectably, how would you price in the cost of death?

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQRAfJyEsko

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Re:How to lower the price of plant-based meat by tomp on Sunday February 07, 2021 @03:10AM (#26053481)
Non-eating meat would result in the extinction of several species. Interesting exploration of this moral issue is here:

https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/12/11/acc-is-eating-meat-a-n...

Personally, I don’t consider the death of (most) animals any different to the death of plants. Only killing conscious entities (be they meat-based or potentially digital in the future) is immoral.

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