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Re:Insects are more sensitive than they seem by wander_homer on Saturday December 11, 2021 @03:14AM (#29519386)
By far the majority of all cows on farms have a miserable life. The female ones were made to give ridiculous amounts of milk, they get forcibly impregnated every year so they constantly produce milk, their offspring is taken away from them immediately after birth and will likely never see a single drop of milk or touch from their mom, after a few years those cows are put down because their bodies are exhausted for being pregnant and producing milk for most of their lifes.

Pigs and chicken have it probably even worse.

A world with our demand for milk, eggs and meat is not possible without ridiculous amounts of harm for all animals involved.

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Re:Insects are more sensitive than they seem by xattt on Saturday December 11, 2021 @08:36AM (#29520741)
Weaning and raising a child with only vegan foods seems inhumane. How many beans, lentils and soy products do you need to make up for a serving of meat?
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Re:Insects are more sensitive than they seem by wander_homer on Saturday December 11, 2021 @02:38PM (#29523577)
Why is raising a child with vegan foods inhumane? And you do realize that in order for you to get a serving of meat, we first had to feed animals many times more calories from plant based products? The majority of our soy is used to fed animals. Right now we produce ~350 million tons of soy each year, which means with 150-450kcal/100gr for soy beans that's enough energy to feed everyone on earth. Since we're also eating other stuff this means we could actually reduce our soy production if we stopped feeding it to animals but used it ourselves.
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Re:Insects are more sensitive than they seem by sweetheart on Saturday December 11, 2021 @11:34AM (#29522095)
Why do you think it’s inhumane?…
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Re:Insects are more sensitive than they seem by tempestn on Saturday December 11, 2021 @04:30AM (#29519682)
That's fair, and I agree that needs to change.
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