RE: Veganism
August 13, 2024 at 4:15 pm
(This post was last modified: August 13, 2024 at 4:16 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
It's a land use issue, at it's heart. Being able to produce protein products in a lab will never, for example, eliminate livestock production. It may give the subset of interested consumers other options - but it will not give the set of producers other options. It won't reduce the overall demand for livestock products, either. Just shift the end point.
I personally think that the ethical field lies somewhere between abolitionism and contemporary pastoralism. I don't believe that the best ethical outcome for people or for animals is abolitionism. I do think that a contemporary pastoralist system is decades away - not because people don't want it...and alot of them for ethical reasons..and not even because we couldn't pay for it - plenty do right now, it's a strong niche - but because what we want and what we can do...even assuming futurist predictions are true...is not the same thing. Not all problems have solutions. Or, if we prefer, good ones.
I personally think that the ethical field lies somewhere between abolitionism and contemporary pastoralism. I don't believe that the best ethical outcome for people or for animals is abolitionism. I do think that a contemporary pastoralist system is decades away - not because people don't want it...and alot of them for ethical reasons..and not even because we couldn't pay for it - plenty do right now, it's a strong niche - but because what we want and what we can do...even assuming futurist predictions are true...is not the same thing. Not all problems have solutions. Or, if we prefer, good ones.
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