All animals being used in animal agriculture and industry suffer, every choice for any products from animals contributes to animal suffering, while every time we do not need those things, there are alternatives without anything from animals for those. But there are addictive substances in food from animal products in them. These are so easy to get past, like within several weeks, and I found the alternatives are not even needed with just having tasty healthy food, that I continue with, and I can say ways I know to have that.
The poem sounds like extremist drivel. While based in some truth, it is disproportionately balanced and most likely is just used as fuel to make people’s worldviews more polarised or, rather, passes black and white to just become black.
Propaganda is dangerous. Unbiased information and education of related subjects is far more powerful. Be careful with what you consume, OP
I agree about this polarizes the divide between careless meat-eaters and total vegans (though i’m on neither end of that spectrum myself), but i do like how it points out how ridiculous our system is. We first kill people to have more place for our animals and their food, then kill the animals that threaten our own animals, then kills those animals to eat them even though eating them will eventually kill us too. And we continue this habbit by expanding our Lebensraum, killing more humans and animals so we can have more animals to eat dispite the facts we are now starving people elsewhere because they don’t have space to grow food anymore.
Well, it does outline where we seem to be heading. Unfortunately not enough is being done to overhaul how we all live and grow in population, and this is definitely one of the critical issues that drive us toward an unstable crescendo of unsustainability. Well said!
I saw a perfect short video by Arvind Animal Activist that summarized this type of argument about all the ways in which we cause harm and then cause even more harm trying to manage that harm ultimately all as a consequence of animal exploitation including animal agriculture . I can’t find it, any idea?
If you can grow any plants for food at all, grow those, it does make significant difference. Remember animals being used for food need to be fed, this whole way is using a lot more food up, with what more is needing to grown, there is only more incidental harm with this way. The whole food was I have is good. I approach the 30 vegetables a week which is really so much healthier by getting more from produce in all that I buy, generally it is otherwise just what I will drink (non-alcoholic) like green tea, coffee, and fruit juice, the pasta and the quinoa I buy, hummus, medium salsa, and jackfruit, jars of pickle chips, jars of olives, some rice milk, almond milk, cashew milk, or soy milk, and cereal (usually raisin bran for warmer days and oatmeal for cooler days), whole grain bread, and complete cookies (Lenny & Larry’s). That really is almost all, there are seasonings and very occasional things like seaweed, not so often, I still get what I might for supplemental B12, and minerals anyone might need to supplement, and more so at a higher age, that would concern me.
Don’t forget the wildlife issue is multifactorial. You have the impact of animal agriculture on the climate & Earth’s natural ecosystems, ghgs, pollution, land/water/crop/resource use, deforestation, habitat destruction, species extinction, etc (all of which harms and threatens most life on Earth including humans)… but more directly not only do humans wipe out wild animal populations in order to protect “livestock” farming operations (that disturbing irony of “farmers heroically saving the animals from danger so that they can kill them later”…) but then also use that to vindicate the killing of the other animals that become more densely populated as a result of humans’ prior disruption to the balance of the various species within the ecosystem. So it’s literally… killing animals to kill animals to kill animals. E.g. killing the deers in order to kill the foxes/bears in order to kill the cows/pigs/chickens …violence begets violence