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[deleted] t1_j0hffy3 wrote

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upnflames t1_j0hiok6 wrote

Nah, not spicy, just hypocritical. I'd rather be a goose on one of those farms then just about any other mass produced animal product.

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freeradicalx t1_j0ii260 wrote

Why would you assume they eat other animal products if they don't eat this one?

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ohlardalmighty t1_j0hodou wrote

Hypocritical only if the person you replied to isn’t vegan, though, right?

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LittleKitty235 t1_j0hrq6u wrote

They are just naive then. The only way the meat industry goes away is if demand does, it can't be legislated into extinction.

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yieldsjuni t1_j0inmu0 wrote

Yeah it can, if the govt stopped subsidizing it the real cost would be prohibitive for almost everyone

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LittleKitty235 t1_j0j071v wrote

....because no one in the world eats meat without government subsidies...right.

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yieldsjuni t1_j0j4xrs wrote

I'm not against meat eating, i'm against the entire population eating it 3 times a day and having dairy and gelatin in everything cause it's cheap. It's disturbing

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oreosfly t1_j0hpi35 wrote

The way we treat cows, chickens, and pigs is not any better, yet there is no widespread call to ban eggs, chicken, beef, and pork.

Egg laying hens in cages have an average of 67 square inches of floor space. That’s less area than a sheet of copy paper. Where’s the outrage from the City Council?

For the record, I don’t eat foie gras nor do I care to eat it, but I’m sick of our massively hypocritical City Council thinking that they are holier than thou with these laws.

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freeradicalx t1_j0iiba3 wrote

> The way we treat cows, chickens, and pigs is not any better, yet there is no widespread call to ban eggs, chicken, beef, and pork.

There should be. The only difference is that people would push back harder against that than they do against foie gras.

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JellyfishConscious t1_j0i5wc0 wrote

Two things can be wrong at the same time.

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[deleted] t1_j0i6gpn wrote

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JellyfishConscious t1_j0i73ih wrote

I’m not talking about scale tho, the article is talking about this one particular topic. The comment I replied to is talking about industrial farmed meat. Both foi gras and industrial farmed meat are unethically produced.

No need to point out that there are other issues, yes there will always be other issues. That’s diverting from the current topic.

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BraveSirZaphod t1_j0i0v2w wrote

The question is if wielding the hammer of government power is justifiable.

If there wasn't demand for foie gras, it wouldn't be produced. If enough people become convinced that it's some uniquely horrific ethical issue, they'll stop eating it and the issue resolves itself.

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