Beyond Meat’s Beyond Burger life cycle assessment (2018)

Re:Beyond Meat’s Beyond Burger life cycle assessment (2018) by doodirock on Friday May 07, 2021 @01:46AM (#27072632)

Um... Now you sound like the one who is ignorant. Not everyone thinks killing an animal for food is some terrible blight on the world. I have zero issues with it and no amount of "but they're living things and so cute" is going to change that fact.

It's exactly this type of nonsense that gets people to turn away from meat like products. We don't need a lecture about sad little animals every time we order a delicious smash burger.

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Re:Beyond Meat’s Beyond Burger life cycle assessment (2018) by dotsam on Friday May 07, 2021 @02:48AM (#27073028)

I think it is useful to distinguish between 'killing an animal for food' and 'rearing billions of animals each year in factories in conditions in which they suffer, and subsequently killing them for food'.

Factory farmed animals does look like a terrible blight on the world to me - what makes you think it isn't?

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Re:Beyond Meat’s Beyond Burger life cycle assessment (2018) by twhizzle on Friday May 07, 2021 @08:54AM (#27075314)

It doesn’t bother me a bit.

I understand some people get real emotional about this type of thing, but I truly do not care.

I’d just prefer we start gene editing to create brainless cows so people can find something else to get all uppity about.

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Re:Beyond Meat’s Beyond Burger life cycle assessment (2018) by dotsam on Friday May 07, 2021 @09:05AM (#27075408)

I like the idea of gene editing to remove brain stems, although that still leaves us with the input/output issues (feed, methane etc), which perhaps we can also engineer away.

If animal suffering doesn't bother you, does human suffering?

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Re:Beyond Meat’s Beyond Burger life cycle assessment (2018) by twhizzle on Friday May 07, 2021 @10:23AM (#27076199)

> If animal suffering doesn't bother you, does human suffering?

Things I can’t control or fix don’t bother me.

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Re:Beyond Meat’s Beyond Burger life cycle assessment (2018) by wittycardio on Friday May 07, 2021 @01:16PM (#27078325)

I mean then you have no moral standing whatsoever and your opinion is irrelevant

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Re:Beyond Meat’s Beyond Burger life cycle assessment (2018) by xdennis on Friday May 07, 2021 @06:11AM (#27074248)

Factory farming makes meat available to the common man. Without it only rich people could afford meat.

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Re:Beyond Meat’s Beyond Burger life cycle assessment (2018) by dotsam on Friday May 07, 2021 @06:31AM (#27074379)

Victorian factory owners might use a similar argument to support using child labour to make cheap goods which the common man can afford; that doesn't mean that child labour is good.

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