Re:Beyond Meat’s Beyond Burger life cycle assessment (2018)
by alecst on Thursday May 06, 2021 @10:56PM
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> I don’t consider the slaughter of animals for food to be particularly more violent than the wholesale shredding of plant fibers at harvest
You probably think of "violence" differently than most people then.
Re:Beyond Meat’s Beyond Burger life cycle assessment (2018)
by sweetheart on Thursday May 06, 2021 @10:57PM
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There is no such thing as slaughter without cruelty. The animals do not want to die, and they are killed. That is _always_ cruel.
Re:Beyond Meat’s Beyond Burger life cycle assessment (2018)
by xenihn on Thursday May 06, 2021 @11:26PM
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I think we'll eventually be able to recreate "meat" that is equal to or even better than meat that came from an actual animal. We'll reach a point where "fake" meat tastes better, is healthier for you, and, most importantly of all, is more profitable.
Re:Beyond Meat’s Beyond Burger life cycle assessment (2018)
by sidlls on Thursday May 06, 2021 @11:01PM
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There is such a thing, for example the slaughtering of an animal for food.
Re:Beyond Meat’s Beyond Burger life cycle assessment (2018)
by sweetheart on Thursday May 06, 2021 @11:27PM
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If you watch the footage of pigs being half-stunned, throats slit, and then drowning in a vat of hot blood, and can earnestly tell me you don't see that as cruel, I promise you I will never make that argument again.
Re:Beyond Meat’s Beyond Burger life cycle assessment (2018)
by sidlls on Thursday May 06, 2021 @11:41PM
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As if that were the only way to slaughter an animal.
Re:Beyond Meat’s Beyond Burger life cycle assessment (2018)
by sweetheart on Friday May 07, 2021 @12:14AM
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It’s how virtually all factory farms do it, which is the vast vast majority of meat that human beings eat. We should make sure we’re comfortable with it before saying it’s humane.
Re:Beyond Meat’s Beyond Burger life cycle assessment (2018)
by King-Aaron on Thursday May 06, 2021 @11:19PM
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Plants don't want to die either, and they do their best to evolve specifically to avoid death.
Re:Beyond Meat’s Beyond Burger life cycle assessment (2018)
by spicymaki on Friday May 07, 2021 @12:56AM
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Personally I would love to have a device that would pull carbon out of the air and produce proteins. We are not there yet, so plants are the next best thing.
Re:Beyond Meat’s Beyond Burger life cycle assessment (2018)
by daddylongstroke on Saturday May 08, 2021 @01:50PM
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You don't need a device. It already exists, and has existed for hundreds of thousands of years. It's the ruminant-grass-soil-microbe energy cycle.
The “less violence” argument doesn’t hold sway with some. That’s a purely subjective assessment that not everyone agrees with. For example, I don’t consider the slaughter of animals for food to be particularly more violent than the wholesale shredding of plant fibers at harvest.