Tyson Foods and the federal government refuse to show their math for a new sustainability label.
Clean coal all over again?
Yes it is.
Peter Singer the “father of the animal rights movement” and really interesting philosopher, is I think a vegan but he argues for a disclosure number on eggs and chicken saying how many chickens there were per acre, because he argues that IF the chickens lived a happy life and were killed without distress, it’s ethical to eat them, and at some really low density the evidence shows they are happy.
He also makes a claim that there are circumstances where it’s ethical to eat meat like if the airplane serves you the wrong meal and if you reject it they will throw it away, because the animal is already dead and your decision doesn’t incentivize more death, and demanding a new meal wastes food.
So, that’s what living true values sounds like to me. Not picking a rule and sticking by it, but taking each decision and weighing it against your values.
Yeah. This is how I live life. I don’t create demand for meat. But I’m not vegetarian.
Personally, I find a lot of Peter Singer’s arguments to be pretty questionable. As for some of the ones you’ve mentioned:
For one, killing humans, no matter how humanely the means, is seen by most to be an act of cruelty. I do not want to be killed in my sleep, so why is it okay to assume that animals would be okay with it? While he is a utilitarian and doesn’t believe in rights, killing a sentient being seems to me to have much greater negative utility than the positive utility of the enjoyment of eating a chicken.
Also, farming animals for slaughter will always be destructive towards habitats and native species. Even if broiler chickens were kept alive for their natural lifespan of 3-7 years instead of 8 weeks to alleviate any kind of ethical issue with farming them, there is still an opportunity and environmental cost to farming chickens. We could use that land for to cultivate native species and wildlife, or for growing more nutritious and varied crops for people to eat, yet instead we continue to raze the amazon rainforest to make more land for raising farm animals and growing feed. De-densification of farms would only make the demand for farmland even greater than it already is.
Finally, the de-densification of farms would mean a significant increase in the costs of mear production. We’d be pricing lower income groups out of eating meat, while allowing middle- and upper-class folks to carry on consuming animal products as usual. We should not place the burdens of societal progress on the lower class.
But factory farming is completely separate from the scenario of throwing away the entree on the plane.
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Mammals are not a source of b12. They get it from their diets. In cows it is artificially supplemented.
It does feel like the opportunity to maintain a diet deemed ethical to oneself is a considerable luxury of our age, not a sustainable human condition.
I disagree with this. The notion of ending a happy life is more cruel than ending a suffering life. How bout we just don’t raise animals for slaughter?
If you’re able to choose to not eat meat then I believe that is the morally correct choice.
The ethical problem is weighing a happy life cut short vs no life at all. There’s no mathematical solution.
This is under the impression that life as a concept is good. I know personally that I’d rather never have been born. Being born isn’t some cosmic lottery that souls just float around in the void hoping they win.
As much as I’m generally on your side, that’s not honestly answering the premise, which is that those chickens do live a happy live.
I personally don’t seek so-called ethical meat because every example I’ve looked into has been a lie, and if it does exist it’s not worth my time to comb through supply lines in search for a product whose origin I would always worry about, and that I can do perfectly well without.
Imagine you’re living a happy life. One day someone comes up to you and ends that life. You don’t know why it happened, but your happy life has now been ended. How is that any less disturbing than a chicken’s experience?
I agree with the ethical meat comment. That’s why I don’t bother and just eat plants.
The question is if somehow given the choice, would you pick that over no life at all?
Me personally? No life. I don’t want to be here and even if I had the best life a human could have, I would still be contributing to suffering in some form.
I just can’t help but dismiss out of hand these sorts of melodramatic comments that aim for maximum angst while stating nothing of value.
It’s not melodrama and if you can’t gain any knowledge from what I’ve said, that’s on you.
I’ve not had the best experience with life and just as your experience has painted your opinion in a more positive light, mine has painted mine negatively. It doesn’t discount my view or bolster yours.
This kind of edgy comment has no place in real discussion, because of you were serious about it, you wouldn’t be able to post it because you’d be dead.
Your comment demeans and trivializes suicidal ideation.
Committing suicide isn’t as easy as you apparently think it is.
I am a survivor of suicide, which is why I take this kind of tripe seriously.
Throwing doubts about how serious people are about suicide is important. Wanting to kill yourself is a sign of an illness, not a position one reasons themselves into.
I’m sorry you’ve experienced that.
I have CPTSD which if you or anyone reading doesn’t know is continued, long term traumatic experiences. I’m much older than my “edgy” comments seem at 42. My life experience has led to my illness, but reorganizing and unraveling the knot of that experience has led to this view of life not being something I’m happy to have to continue. The real kicker is that having stripped away the “life is worth living” propaganda has given me some peace. However, there isn’t anything on this planet that is more corrosive than happy people telling you to be happy.
Peter Singer isn’t vegan, he’s a utilitarian. Also known as someone who uses “math” to ignore the hard problems in ethics.
It makes sense to eat food that would otherwise be thrown away.
It does not make sense to say killing an animal is justified because they were happy or it was done humanely.
Doesn’t sound like he has values to me. Sounds like he has exceptions. It’s a good thing people with ‘true values’ don’t have to prove them to you, lol.
Doesn’t sound like he has values to me. Sounds like he has exceptions.
I mean, regardless how you feel about them, those are values. Values in this case as made up of inclusions and exclusions, to say that his values are “exceptions” because they’re different than your inclusions and exclusions is condescending and frankly wrong.
Sure man. Believe whatever you want.
Rich people’s flesh is the most climate-friendly meat
Absolutely not! It takes a lot of pollution before someone becomes rich
Takes a lot less to remove them.
Bet you $10 they are going to jack those prices up so fucking high because marketing it as “sustainable” adds value or whatever.
I bet WWF cant wait to put its label on the packaging.
They want you to think killing tuna is good for the environment
“This product helps protect coastlines and waterways.”
How is this legal?
What’s it say?
This product contributes to the PROTECTION OF COASTS AND WATERS by:
Use of feed from sustainable production
Refrain from preventive treatment with antibiotics
More space per animal
Non-genetically modified feed
Avoidance of synthetic dyes in feed
How does that say “killing tuna is good for the environment”?
Isn’t it kinda obvious it’s a comparison to other tuna? Best for the environment would be to kill yourself and not eat anything.
That’s quite a wild difference from claiming killing tuna saves the environment.
This is saying they only use farmed tuna from sustainable sources, instead of just fishing them from the wild and reducing native populations, as well as not using drugs, GMOs, or synthetic dyes with those farmed fish.
Didn’t feeding them seaweed drastically reduce their methane burps?
Thanks for the heads up.
I’m still frustrated at the whole cage-free eggs/free range chickens and how it’s super confusing.
The problem is that free range and grass fed methods take up more space and and produce more greenhouses gasses, even if they are more ethical.
Is it more expensive? They raise a ton of sheep around here, maybe I’ll start buying local lamb. Mmmmm…
Hate to break it to you but the climate impact stats on lamb are just as bad as beef. I guess it’s good that it’s local but don’t think that just because it’s not beef it’s a-okay.
The 1% and the corporations are more at fault for climate change than individuals. I’m not going to stop eating beef while rich assholes fly around in their private jets fucking up the world just so I have to pay for their greed.
Corporations respond to consumer demand. Don’t buy beef and there won’t be massive deforestation and insane methane emissions. Every dollar you spend on beef is supporting the 1% and the corporations you claim to hate.
Don’t buy beef and there won’t be massive deforestation and insane methane emissions
have you tried that?
Yup! That’s why western demand for meat is decreasing
I like beef, I like the climate unfriendly kind, I’m gonna go nuts for this new climate friendly kind I bet
Why are you like that?
Trolls gonna troll
Weren’t they just saying that if they already like and purchase beef, they’re going to be able to enjoy it even more if there’s an option less harmful to the environment?
