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Re:Russia reports first human cases of H5N8 bird flu by BillyTheKing on Saturday February 20, 2021 @01:05PM (#26206313)
those are fair points, but I specifically tried to avoid saying 'do not eat meat', I said it's something that we should reduce or cut down. Those don'ts that you listed unfortunately conflict...

most people weren't able to have a vacation this year because of the pandemic, which in all likelihood is related to our relationship with animals. Same with meeting friends and family.

In my opinion those aren't all equal, there are certain desires that are incredibly important to us as a species as well as our democracy, and those include social interactions with other humans and arguably more important that the ability to consume meat thrice a day.

I'm not saying humans shouldn't eat meat at all, eating meat has been part of the human diet for many centuries - but eating meat day in and out, for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, that's where we took a wrong turn, we're on an extreme side of the spectrum here, and that's never healthy.

Re:Russia reports first human cases of H5N8 bird flu by amanaplanacanal on Saturday February 20, 2021 @01:39PM (#26206594)
Eating meat has been a large part of the human diet since the very beginning. It is what allowed us to grow our huge brains. It is what made us what we are.

I agree that the problem isn’t meat, the problem is scale. We are having too many kids, and the population is way too large for our limited resources.