Re:World’s first octopus farm stirs ethical debate
by asdff on Thursday February 24, 2022 @09:27PM
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It's definitely a cultural reaction but I think it has to do with our place in history, being so far removed from the means of production of so many goods we rely on that we can only think of them in abstract terms of how they came to be.
People always say "If you knew where that burger came from, you wouldn't be eating meat." Yet here we are eating meat, having been knowing exactly where it came from and in fact doing it personally ourselves for millions of years of hominoid evolution right up until we developed our modern grocery model. It seems its really like, if you initially don't know where the burger came from, but are then are told where it came from having no firsthand experience previously, then you might not be eating meat anymore.
People always say "If you knew where that burger came from, you wouldn't be eating meat." Yet here we are eating meat, having been knowing exactly where it came from and in fact doing it personally ourselves for millions of years of hominoid evolution right up until we developed our modern grocery model. It seems its really like, if you initially don't know where the burger came from, but are then are told where it came from having no firsthand experience previously, then you might not be eating meat anymore.