In my observation, a big part of social progress is each generation pointing out the hypocrisy of the previous. “All men are created equal” so how can you enslave black people? If men can vote, why can’t women? How come straight people can marry but gay people can’t? How is it fair to send an 18 year old to war but not let him vote?
A lot of these hypocrisies were so internalized that a lot of people of previous generations never even thought about them. It was like a mental blind spot. It took young people with fresh thinking to point them out and fight to fix them.
So, speaking as a Millenial, I’m asking what my generation’s blind spots are. What injustices are we perpetuating without even thinking much about it?
For reference, Millenials are currently in their late 20s to early 40s. Not running the world, but also not fresh eyed college grads.
Even if we do keep eating meat eating cows is about as wasteful as it gets. People should get over themselves and forget about their steaks once and for all. It truly is a disgusting practice of the same magnitude of environmental and ethical harm as burning fossil fuels to fuel your insane shopping addictions.
it’s like arguing over different types of combustion engines. at the end of the day we need to feed 8 billion people and it simply isn’t possible without industrial food production. and cows could be the best option because saturated fat is the most energy dense food but people only want to eat that 1 cut they like so we get the situation we’re in now where cows are almost the worst possible option.
I say almost because at lest they aren’t being ground up alive in a combine harvester so people can feel smug about not eating that meat.