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Re:Nearly 2M metric tons of wild fish used to feed Norwegian... by blackjack_ on Tuesday July 09, 2024 @03:44AM (#40913514)
Maybe but in the early 1800s there was a guy similarly saying “The idea that people would voluntarily stop enslaving people and switch to paying wages is just wishful thinking” and yet we seemed to have changed that one.
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Re:Nearly 2M metric tons of wild fish used to feed Norwegian... by theultdev on Tuesday July 09, 2024 @03:49AM (#40913543)
uhm no, they just switched to outsourcing the work to poorer countries and bringing in "migrant workers" so they don't have to pay them min. wage.

and I wouldn't compare slavery to meat consumption.

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Re:Nearly 2M metric tons of wild fish used to feed Norwegian... by sociorealist on Tuesday July 09, 2024 @04:01AM (#40913610)
Yes, the slave work for producing their Apple gear and Balenciagas is done offshore, ofc.
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Re:Nearly 2M metric tons of wild fish used to feed Norwegian... by wyre on Tuesday July 09, 2024 @04:23AM (#40913705)
Even though you wouldn't make the comparison doesn't make it any less so.

Marjorie Spiegal wrote about it in length in her book "The Dreaded Comparison"

https://archive.org/details/dreadedcompariso0000spie_o7y4/pa...

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Re:Nearly 2M metric tons of wild fish used to feed Norwegian... by theultdev on Tuesday July 09, 2024 @04:33AM (#40913754)
I'm saying I disagree with the comparison, and thus wouldn't make it.

You can attempt to argue for the merits of the comparison, in your own words, if you'd like.

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Re:Nearly 2M metric tons of wild fish used to feed Norwegian... by Al-Khwarizmi on Tuesday July 09, 2024 @04:43AM (#40913808)
I hate to bring the cynical take, but it has often been argued that slavery ended to a great extent due to economic factors (slavery simply not being so profitable anymore due to the rise of industrial capitalism, need of more skilled labor, decline of the profitability of plantations, cost of maintaining the system and stopping revolts, etc.).

Not saying that it was 100% economic and moral/ethical awakening didn't play an important role, but the economic changes definitely helped. And this kind of favorable factors aren't apparent in the case of convincing everyone to go vegetarian.

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