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"In 200 years, society will look back on meat eating in roughly equivalent horror as we look back on slavery today"

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I think people 200 years ago would have argued that slavery was a necessity for some parts of the world

6:51 PM · Jul 19, 2020

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While that may very well be, that doesn't make it automatically true. Of course, it depends on one's definition of "necessity", the context and goal of the practice. For "not being able to survive otherwise", I think it's "more true" for meat-eating in some contexts than slavery.