A technological band aid on a gushing wound of unnecessary suffering and moral ignorance.
My understanding of those studies is that that's not what they're saying. They're saying that salmon farms are not driving greater incidence of parasites and lice in their wild counterparts. It doesn't say that farmed…
Incredible moral hazard. Fish farming is a moral abomination. The fish get get lice and parasites because they are packed in tight conditions. This will allow farms to do nothing about those underlying deficiencies,…
If your political enemies have committed crimes they should be held accountable for them
Maybe a materialist biological exceptionalism position could be that biological substrates are capable of sending kinds of signals that silicon substrates are not, in the sense that brain matter especially might give…
There really is. And it's worth making the effort! Wishing you luck.
I love that the researcher in the video is just hanging out in her living room and holding her cat while recording her portion of the explainer
Rational compassion being perhaps a distinctively human trait, needless animal slaughter and suffering is far more ruinous to my humanity. Also the small farmers you are romanticizing hardly exist anymore precisely…
Having to forcibly restrain an animal is clear evidence that they don't like it, otherwise I don't know what clear evidence you would accept. A good proxy for whether an animal likes something is when it shows aversive…
We eat far more meat now at a time when far far fewer people are personally slaughtering animals than ever before in human history, so I think the claim checks out. People who kill animals themselves regularly are…
What metrics? https://nutritionfacts.org/blog/how-healthy-are-the-impossib... This comparison seems to suggest they are very similar. The fact that impossible burgers are vastly less resource intensive to produce and…
Something like 70% of all antibiotics used worldwide go to farm animals, so in a sense, they are already pumped full of drugs keeping them happy because the drugs prevent them from dying at higher rates from disease.…
This is called moral progress. Also South Korea didn't end their dog meat industry because of international pressure, it's because incomes have been steadily rising and more households are purchasing dogs as companion…
You mean no more raising tens of millions of pigs and billions of chickens in intense confinement? Don't threaten me with a good time!
They have to forcibly hold them in place. You have to do this with pretty much all artificially inseminated animals. Rape is not a terrible word to describe forcible penetration.
I think "it's not pretty" is doing a lot of work here. As necessary as animal testing may be (disputable) you aren't allowed to violate animal welfare laws to do it. Not to mention that violating those laws in the…
Man. Well at least all those macaques didn't die for nothing.
I don't think they'd use it, no. They seem to have behaved pretty rationally in response to foreign powers meddling in the region to me. You can wring your hands about them funding terror groups, but it's nothing that…
It's still in the early commercialization stages, but I think the best solution to this is lab grown meat for pets. https://meatly.pet/ ^ that's an example of one I found.
They want to nuke the land they consider holy?
It is absolutely not "very hard." It is challenging at first because like anything else, the startup costs of new habit formation can be high. But tofu, soy milk, seitan, tempeh, lentils, and many other plant protein…
We need to collectively evolve as a species past intensive industrial animal confinement. To think, we can be more compassionat and don't need to sacrifice our health, and may in fact be able to live healthier!
Poor fish!
Thank you!
Is this just based on that one video or is there something more to this
A technological band aid on a gushing wound of unnecessary suffering and moral ignorance.
My understanding of those studies is that that's not what they're saying. They're saying that salmon farms are not driving greater incidence of parasites and lice in their wild counterparts. It doesn't say that farmed…
Incredible moral hazard. Fish farming is a moral abomination. The fish get get lice and parasites because they are packed in tight conditions. This will allow farms to do nothing about those underlying deficiencies,…
If your political enemies have committed crimes they should be held accountable for them
Maybe a materialist biological exceptionalism position could be that biological substrates are capable of sending kinds of signals that silicon substrates are not, in the sense that brain matter especially might give…
There really is. And it's worth making the effort! Wishing you luck.
I love that the researcher in the video is just hanging out in her living room and holding her cat while recording her portion of the explainer
Rational compassion being perhaps a distinctively human trait, needless animal slaughter and suffering is far more ruinous to my humanity. Also the small farmers you are romanticizing hardly exist anymore precisely…
Having to forcibly restrain an animal is clear evidence that they don't like it, otherwise I don't know what clear evidence you would accept. A good proxy for whether an animal likes something is when it shows aversive…
We eat far more meat now at a time when far far fewer people are personally slaughtering animals than ever before in human history, so I think the claim checks out. People who kill animals themselves regularly are…
What metrics? https://nutritionfacts.org/blog/how-healthy-are-the-impossib... This comparison seems to suggest they are very similar. The fact that impossible burgers are vastly less resource intensive to produce and…
Something like 70% of all antibiotics used worldwide go to farm animals, so in a sense, they are already pumped full of drugs keeping them happy because the drugs prevent them from dying at higher rates from disease.…
This is called moral progress. Also South Korea didn't end their dog meat industry because of international pressure, it's because incomes have been steadily rising and more households are purchasing dogs as companion…
You mean no more raising tens of millions of pigs and billions of chickens in intense confinement? Don't threaten me with a good time!
They have to forcibly hold them in place. You have to do this with pretty much all artificially inseminated animals. Rape is not a terrible word to describe forcible penetration.
I think "it's not pretty" is doing a lot of work here. As necessary as animal testing may be (disputable) you aren't allowed to violate animal welfare laws to do it. Not to mention that violating those laws in the…
Man. Well at least all those macaques didn't die for nothing.
I don't think they'd use it, no. They seem to have behaved pretty rationally in response to foreign powers meddling in the region to me. You can wring your hands about them funding terror groups, but it's nothing that…
It's still in the early commercialization stages, but I think the best solution to this is lab grown meat for pets. https://meatly.pet/ ^ that's an example of one I found.
They want to nuke the land they consider holy?
It is absolutely not "very hard." It is challenging at first because like anything else, the startup costs of new habit formation can be high. But tofu, soy milk, seitan, tempeh, lentils, and many other plant protein…
We need to collectively evolve as a species past intensive industrial animal confinement. To think, we can be more compassionat and don't need to sacrifice our health, and may in fact be able to live healthier!
Poor fish!
Thank you!
Is this just based on that one video or is there something more to this