"Sentience extends to cows, chicken, pigs & even fish. These are beings with a consciousness. They experience pleasure and pain, bond with their young & pursue their own purposes, even if they are simple purposes such as seeking food"https://quillette.com/2020/01/27/the-libertarian-case-for-rejecting-meat-consumption/ …
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Replying to @clairlemon
86% of self-declared vegetarians returned to eating meat; 60-66% hat eaten meat during the last 24 hours.
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Replying to @DegenRolf @clairlemon
That's one study in United States where there are fewer veggies than most. It also fails to actually, you know, engage the argument. People do all kinds of unethical things. That doesnt change whether it is ethical or not.
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Replying to @Furrybuttons @clairlemon
I have seen similar results from other countries, for example Switzerland. And I don't ask if it is ethical, but if it is doable, for the masses.
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Replying to @DegenRolf @clairlemon
Well it would be interesting to see how a group (say at a nation state level) would respond to a real push for more plant-based living. Through tax breaks, wide-scale nudging and overall vegetarian friendly cultural reform could there be a dramatic change in those numbers?
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Replying to @Furrybuttons @clairlemon
In order to get a large majority of people go vegetarian, you would have to take extremely UNLIBERTARIAN measures. I definitely do not want to be part of that experiment.
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Rolf Degen Retweeted Rolf Degen
By the way, we Germans were only just spared that experiment.https://twitter.com/DegenRolf/status/734317324656902144?s=20 …
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