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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 09:39

While I'd love for that to happen, it will take a long time. People are stubborn, and have cognitive dissonance. And some people plain don't care about animals.

I'd raise the price on meat and dairy, and subsidise vegan food - fruit and vegetables should be a lot cheaper than they are.

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...

Moonmelodies · 10/02/2025 09:39

What should be done with all the farm animals?

CalicoPusscat · 10/02/2025 09:39

I don't eat meat but don't think this is feasible. People will always eat meat.

DiscoBaIIs · 10/02/2025 09:38

I wish. Dairy, too. I think we need a hard push to move everyone towards a plant-based diet, education is needed.

LaundryPond · 10/02/2025 09:36

Well, it’s ethically indefensible, sure, unless you’re hunting and /or raising and slaughtering your own humanely, but I think it would take a huge amount of time to dismantle.

CasperGutman · 10/02/2025 09:36

From a purely logical standpoint I can see the argument. You're not unreasonable to think a ban could be beneficial. But it's a very, very deeply embedded cultural practice that's widely accepted in our society. It's not going to be banned any time soon and you would be unreasonable to expect it to be.

paradisecityx · 10/02/2025 09:34

Are you ok?

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