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  • Naa I know plenty about it. As you militant vegans are all over lemmy. The joke here is that animals eat other animals…humans are no different, we’re omnivores for a reason. You can act like plants can replace meat but the amount of nutrients from 4oz of meat vs 4oz of some plant is always going to be way out of proportion.

    Plants require a lot of work as well. Most farms that produce meat, are not mega farms like you guys think. The majority of the farms here in the US are small operations, 1k or less head of cattle. They make up 90% of what is consumed. The cows drink, non-potable water. They eat mainly grass (you don’t raise a cow on grain, shit is expensive when grass and roughage is free) and they don’t require you to constantly fertilize the soil to grow something. On top of all this, the majority of what is fed to cows is grass/roughage, and then hay in the winter, which is just rolled up grass/roughage. The feed they finish cows with is non-eatable foods from plants you and I eat. Stalks, roots, stems…shit you cannot process. You think they take and just toss out the plant you’re beans grow on? Hell no, it’s turned into cattle feed.

    So, yes I know a lot about this, because I own a farm and work closely with other farmers, who grow that plant based diet you eat… so be vegan all you want, no one is saying you can’t, but don’t come acting high and mighty because you don’t want the rest of us to eat meat.






  • O %100 agree with that. I ran a private rescue with my own money for over a decade, and I have seen shit that makes me think humanity is better off going extinct, but I have also seen the good side of it as well. It’s the extremes that unfortunately ruin it. Euthanasia of an animal should always be an option vs trying to put something through hell for months only have it die anyways. We’re supposed to their caretakers and guardians, yet so many will choose their own selfishness because they don’t want to do the right thing and help the animal pass peacefully. Conservation at least does this and helps the animals…but a lot of people see just some rich dude killing a lion…not that they killed a lion that literally was going to starve in the next year, not that the 100k+ to hunt the animal paid for keeping the sanctuary running and pochers at bay, not that it helps a poverished village that exists on the reservation access to food and water…they just see some rich dentist posing on Facebook…