Orca That Carried Dead Calf for Weeks Appears to Be in Mourning Again

Re:Orca That Carried Dead Calf for Weeks Appears to Be in Mo... by dotancohen on Thursday January 09, 2025 @03:12AM (#42642964)

  > One person stops eating meat, it just reduces the demand and there’s one less cow that suffers, but not in a sense that it becomes happy now. It just stops existing (best case). Is that a win?

I've heard this phrased as "meat is murder, but vegetarianism is genocide".

If humans were to stop eating meat, certain species of animal would go extinct.

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Re:Orca That Carried Dead Calf for Weeks Appears to Be in Mo... by NewJazz on Thursday January 09, 2025 @03:37AM (#42643152)

That's not true. We would still need food for dogs and cats. And even if not, then we could still keep cows around just for the vibes. We don't eat Tule Elk (anymore). It is still around. In fact it is still around precisely because we decided to stop hunting it to extinction.

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