Gae Bolga Wrote:We eat more meat because we can afford to.Now, that we are wealthier, we can afford to eat more meat, which is more expensive than most plant food.
Also, we aren't doing it just because we can afford it. By that logic, there should be more foot-binding today than there was in the early 1900s, because more people today can afford to have daughters with bound feet (that can't work) than that was the case in the early 1900s. Eating meat is, just like foot-binding was, a nonsensical tradition, and will gradually disappear for the same reasons.
Gae Bolga Wrote:you can't even accept the realities of production because they don't fit with your scatterbrained ideology.Says somebody who refuses to acknowledge that CO2 poisoning is not painless, because that wouldn't fit his ideology...
Gae Bolga Wrote:People could buy fucking trefoil if they wanted to..they don't, lol.My point was that switching back to eating grass-fed meat, as you suggest, wouldn't work because it will be more expensive, grass-fed animals don't grow nearly as fast as grain-fed animals do.
Gae Bolga Wrote:You claimed that veganism could help to feed the world.In response to somebody claiming that it would make the global hunger worse. If somebody makes a claim without presenting evidence, you can respond by making a contrary claim without evidence, to show how invalid his or her reasoning is.
Gae Bolga Wrote:"if we all stopped smoking then burley producers would be better off" is demonstrably, patently, and absurdly untrue..Maybe not. If children are working at tobacco farms, the nicotine in that tobacco harms the skin on their hands for their whole lives. We don't know what would happen.