The FT has a series “a new deal for the young” which has lots of sensible comments from young people, and one absolutely insane one, from someone who is either innumerate or *really* hates animals.pic.twitter.com/sTIzhx3UiT
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The UK currently kill 2.6m cows and 10m pigs each year, so requiring nearly all of the 50m adults to slaughter an animal seems, uh, somewhat overly aggressive.
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Put another way — the average person in the UK eats 60-80kg of meat per year (mostly chicken). You get 200kg of beef from a cow.
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Are chickens not animals then?
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“every briton must spend a day working like an exploited farm worker if they want to eat produce and mining coal if they want electricity” seem much more historically consistent. trad innit?
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I like it. Also work in a sweatshop in Bangladesh if you are wearing clothespic.twitter.com/ZUERqJoSWB
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Obviously his bad for not explicitly mentioning the billion chickens?
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Pretty sure the point was less meat would be consumed
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So just make it once every ten years
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