When I believe something but then my girlfriend makes a cogent, ethical, evidence-based argument against it, I change my mind. What do you do?
How the gf convinced me to stop eating chickens. And how @ezraklein is actually right about a thing.https://twitter.com/triggerpod/status/1017011898490019840 …
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I've also given up turkeys, ducks, etc.
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Eh, I don't hate on vegans but I'm still focusing my efforts on the 21,000 humans that starve to death every day.
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Hard to weigh against the billions of chickens suffering terribly in cages every day around the world.
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I can't even get him to drink a fucking glass of water
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Further, if you consider the proliferation of chickens due solely and completely to the human desire to consume them, it could be argued that, even considering the conditions S.A.D. chickens are kept in is still a net positive genetically speaking.
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This is one of the dumbest arguments I come across. If aliens were farming humans by the billions for food under terrible conditions I don't know anyone who would get much solace from the idea "well, at least my species is successful!". I must have missed that part in the Matrix.
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