Perhaps because quite a few of us like feeding on bovine meat and secretions.

Yeah. Sadly.

Funny how easily pain can be ignored when you dont have to see the subjects suffering for you.

Perfect is the enemy of good.

This wouldn't even be perfection. Perfection would be if there were no sentient beings to experience suffering at all.

Surely this also requires the elimination of the human race. Don't let your AI paperclip maximizer hear you say such things.

Vegans disagree. We live. We thrive. We have fun. And we do not inflict suffering on individuals of other species as far as reasonably possible (thus allowing for pest control and some animal testing of essential drugs).

That sounds quite aways away from "perfection" as stated by the other commentator as being "Perfection would be if there were no sentient beings to experience suffering at all."

(In case its not clear, i think this thread is silly)

Increasing the amount of seaweed in our diet would be a huge boon to the environment. As illustrated in the top story on HN right now which is about N2O, synthetic nitrogen fertiliser is a primary contributor to both climate change and eutrophication.

Personally I would prefer to see a major carbon tax on synthetic fertiliser and products that get produced from them (naturally this include corn feed meat). That way people would have an economic incentive to select the kind of food that has the lowest greenhouse gas emissions.

I'd say a carbon tax only works when applied fair and square to all product, regardless of who buys them. The market will fix the problem, only when given the right incentives.

Since synthetic fertiliser are mostly produced from fossil fuels it should be effected by a generalized carbon tax.

But I am not sold that one have to apply a carbon tax to everything at the same time. Eutrophication has turned a major portion of the baltic ocean into the dead sea and if left to continue we won't have anything left alive there for a very long time. On that environmental crisis alone synthetic fertiliser pollution need to be addressed. That it also is derived from fossil fuels and a major contributor to global warming is all more reasons to focus carbon taxes on synthetic fertiliser specifically.