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To believe that eating meat should be illegal?

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BySpoonyBlueScroller · 10/02/2025 09:34

The environmental damage and animal cruelty outweighs the cultural or personal benefits. AIBU to think it’s time to outlaw meat production?

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DiscoBaIIs · 10/02/2025 09:50

Lovelysummerdays · 10/02/2025 09:49

Wouldn’t they be dead though? You’d have to have a cull. If people aren’t going to be eating them farmers won’t be keeping them.

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They just wouldn't be being born. The ones who are already born are destined for the slaughterhouse anyway.

mumofoneAlonebutokay · 10/02/2025 09:49

I honestly feel terrible eating meat, I feel ill whenever I think of the fact that the meat was a living creature

But I can't go without it. I've tried and i just can't, it tastes so good 🥺

PosiePerkinPootleFlump · 10/02/2025 09:49

You’d be a lot more persuasive at persuading people to reduce their meat consumption if you were a bit more nuanced about this

pointythings · 10/02/2025 09:49

TemporaryPosition · 10/02/2025 09:46

Is this what Morrissey meant when he compared meat eaters to pedophiles? That it doesn't matter how much suffering is caused by someone's actions, the pleasure trumps all? Its certainly provocative

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Morrisey isn't an example for anyone to follow.

Lovelysummerdays · 10/02/2025 09:49

BySpoonyBlueScroller · 10/02/2025 09:44

They’d probably be thrilled not to be farm animals anymore to be honest.

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Wouldn’t they be dead though? You’d have to have a cull. If people aren’t going to be eating them farmers won’t be keeping them.

SmallTownLife · 10/02/2025 09:48

I’m vegan and I’d love to see a stop to animals being used the way they are. However, I think it’s better that society realises that it it morally wrong themselves over time rather thsn making it illegal. Vegetarianism and veganism are increasing, we just need to give it more time. Often changes that happen slowly are the ones that stick.

I also think the best we can hope for is less animals used for food and a stop to such intensive farming, but that will be a big improvement.

Abra1t · 10/02/2025 09:47

What food would you grow instead on the parts of land in Britain where you can’t grow crops but livestock can be reared? I’m looking out at fields where it’s too hilly for arable but sheep and cattle graze.

RocketPanda · 10/02/2025 09:47

Absolutely and also clothes and shoes and electricity and internet.

GoldMoon · 10/02/2025 09:47

I've been veggie 20 years , and of course I'd like more people on board with the idea of not eating animals.
But no , that idea would never work , and will never be put in place.
I think people should come to their own conclusion they want to stop / or even have meat free days .
A total ban / outlaw . No it would never work .

tropicalroses · 10/02/2025 09:46

There's a huge amount of land in the UK that is only suitable for grazing and couldn't be productive otherwise. Food security would be even more precarious, you'd need to increase imports, that would have an impact on global food prices putting pressure on the poorest globally and increasing CO2 emissions from transport.

DalzielOrNoDalzielAndDontPascoe · 10/02/2025 09:46

LaundryPond · 10/02/2025 09:43

Slaughter. All carnivores get one last blow out.

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And what about actual carnivores - animals that genuinely eat nothing but meat? No more lions or tigers and others?

Cats would cease to exist if owners were no longer allowed to feed them meat and they were banned from hunting wild animals themselves. Dogs wouldn't be very happy either.

BlondiePortz · 10/02/2025 09:46

BySpoonyBlueScroller · 10/02/2025 09:44

They’d probably be thrilled not to be farm animals anymore to be honest.

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So all the animals would be killed because farmers wouldn't have any use for them, they would cost money to keep so would just be slaughtered

LavenderFields7 · 10/02/2025 09:46

I think the technology to be able to reproduce “meat” in the lab has to be fully developed and economically viable first. Then yes, I think eating animals will be outlawed. One day we will look back and see ourselves as barbarians killing animals and keeping them locked up the way we do 😔

TemporaryPosition · 10/02/2025 09:46

XDownwiththissortofthingX · 10/02/2025 09:39

No thanks.

Animals taste nice, and nothing touches the sides of a minging hangover like a greasy fry-up full of animal parts.

I've tried every meat-substitute/plant-derived sausage/bacon/haggis product on the market, and none of them get close to the real thing.

Sorry animals, you're cute, fuzzy, loveable and stuff, but you're also delicious on a morning roll and covered in HP Sauce, so off to the slaughterhouse you go...

Is this what Morrissey meant when he compared meat eaters to pedophiles? That it doesn't matter how much suffering is caused by someone's actions, the pleasure trumps all? Its certainly provocative

Cattenberg · 10/02/2025 09:45

I really hope this happens one day. I know several self-professed animal lovers who regularly eat meat and I sometimes wonder how they live with the cognitive dissonance.

ItGhoul · 10/02/2025 09:45

All right, Goady McGoadface

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BySpoonyBlueScroller · 10/02/2025 09:44

Moonmelodies · 10/02/2025 09:39

What should be done with all the farm animals?

They’d probably be thrilled not to be farm animals anymore to be honest.

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Starlightstarbright4 · 10/02/2025 09:44

Nope I think we should ban vegans preaching how we should eat .

5128gap · 10/02/2025 09:43

No. I'm vegan and its absolutely the right decision for me, aligning with my health and ethical views. However I accept that there are opposing arguments. Its unfortunately not as simple as outlawing it in the interests of animal welfare, as there are economic, environmental and health impacts to take into account and the issue had not been sufficiently researched, or such a huge change planned for and risk assessed.

LaundryPond · 10/02/2025 09:43

Moonmelodies · 10/02/2025 09:39

What should be done with all the farm animals?

Slaughter. All carnivores get one last blow out.

Clearinguptheclutter · 10/02/2025 09:42

i’m very sympathetic to vegetarianism. But although most forms of meat farming are environmentally disastrous, production methods of many meat substitutes as well as certain vegetables eg avocados, is extraordinarily un-environmentally friendly too. So Yabu

the biggest problem of all at the moment is deforestation to provide land for cattle to graze. That absolutely should be outlawed and we should all pay more for beef which is sustainably and ethically sourced. Same goes for all kinds of meat.

BlondiePortz · 10/02/2025 09:42

Does this include any food bees are used in the process?

pointythings · 10/02/2025 09:41

If meat were banned, you would see a massive black market, an increase in hunting but with zero regulations, followed by major ecological disaster as whole species were eradicated. Also a huge increase in food poisoning from unregulated unhygienic meat. Humans are omnivores. They can choose to be vegan, but you can't make them not be omnivores.

It's a ridiculous and unworkable idea.

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BySpoonyBlueScroller · 10/02/2025 09:41

paradisecityx · 10/02/2025 09:34

Are you ok?

Never better! You?

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DiscoBaIIs · 10/02/2025 09:40

Moonmelodies · 10/02/2025 09:39

What should be done with all the farm animals?

Really? We'd just stop breeding them.

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