I would support anyone making that choice. But there’s no way around the fact that some people are going to want to eat meat, and I think that’s fine.

It’s the level of consumption, amount of waste and all the harmful externalities that I’m not ok with.

The fact is that meat farming, at a small enough scale in a closed loop system can improve the land instead of destroying it.

If that’s done correctly, meat animals are not mistreated and live the life they’re meant to live, they’re providing outputs for other parts of the system, customers get their (appropriate and healthy amount of) meat locally, the farmer gets a decent livelihood, can leave behind a legacy of land that’s been improved, and relationships are built through interacting with the food system.

Personally, I will continue to encourage and support any local farms brave enough to eschew the harmful practices of conventional agriculture, whether that includes cattle or not!

It’s not a matter of if the actual truth comes out, but when. At least that’s what I reckon.

There are just way too many people caught up in the web – and orders of magnitude more who have a non-zero investment in the outcome, emotionally or otherwise – for it to quietly fade away like they’re wanting it to.

This is like, the last reliably bipartisan thing we have left if you don’t count eating, sleeping and shitting. I would say it’s even beyond that - pretty much everyone who’s not a pedo (which I would hope is, like, at the very minimum 99%) wants the same thing – for the truth to come out, and for comprehensive justice to be served.

I’m not going to make it part of my personality and larp as an activist, filling the Internet with low-effort spam, or claiming that everything else that ever happens is “a distraction” from this, no.

The dam will break, the ticking thingy eventually explodes, and I can be very patient. I just hope we still have a functioning justice system when it does.

I’m under no delusion that we should replace all beef with grazing cattle at current levels of consumption. It should be what the land can support, ideally. If they’re part of a closed regenerative system, net-zero emissions and even net climate benefits can be possible. Cattle aren’t going away anytime soon, why not bring responsible stewardship mainstream?

hup

Interrobang: now that’s power

Do you think the people who will end up owning all this arable land will be smart enough to avoid fucking it up? Mono cropping, climate change, pollution, pesticide runoff: these can turn your once arable land into useless acreage nobody wants right quick. I understand we have a lot of it, but look what happened in Brazil.

someone: china bad

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the linked article did mention apartments were “abandoned”, so maybe it is actual organized crime local to NYC. Whoever it was would have to be pretty entrenched to know where is safe to set up.

If it were just run of the mill spam/scam stuff, why not just use VoIP or contract out like the rest of them do? It would certainly be cheaper if that were the goal. There are many, many different reasons to want so many local numbers that are beyond the obvious. Personally, I have questions.

*tines

Speaking as an American, we’d totally fall for it, too

Guess you just have to cancel your whole Internet then, aw shucks

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Go away, batin’!

I’m awaiting “Old El Paso: just water” to hit the market

Now that’s a bit of a stretch

Simply being selective with meat can go a long way as well. Cattle grazing on regenerative farms is in a completely different category from generic CAFO beef from the grocery store (at least if you’re in the US). The main issue is finding it locally.

And yes it’s more expensive, but also more nutritionally dense so you end up using less anyway. Plus it actually tastes like beef. We should be paying more for meat IMO, considering the resources going into its production.

They thought of that, too. There are a finite number of rivers responsible for bringing the vast majority of trash into the ocean

https://theoceancleanup.com/rivers/

And give up free 5g? Are you insane?

So that’s how babby is formed