• Rekorse@sh.itjust.works
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    I can’t predict the future if thats what you mean.

    Theres plenty of evidence that reducing meat production where possible will help everyone. Theres plenty of evidence that at least a mostly plant based diet is better for personal health for most people.

    Less animals suffering is a plus too but you could leave it out and still come to the conclusion that there is something behind plant based and partially plant based diets.

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      1 month ago

      Theres plenty of evidence that reducing meat production where possible will help everyone.

      this is a different claim than you made before

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      Less animals suffering is a plus too but you could leave it out and still come to the conclusion that there is something behind plant based and partially plant based diets.

      this is a nonsequitur. my guess is you have tried plant based diet, and the amount of animal slaughter has only increased: chart

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        1 month ago

        We’ve had this argument like twice already.

        I never claimed that me being a vegan would end animal suffering.

        If you would admit that the line on your graph would go up quicker if all vegetarians and vegans went back to eating meat, then you have to also admit it would go up slower if more people went vegan, vegetarian, or simply ate 25% less meat than they normally do.

        You must be able to see the math there? Do I need to send you university debate level arguments? I can find them for you if you want.

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          your graph would go up quicker if all vegetarians and vegans went back to eating meat,

          as i can’t prove a counterfactual, i wouldn’t make any such claim. i have no reason to believe that production could increase any faster.

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            1 month ago

            I mean I can’t convince you that demand affects supply if you simply don’t think they are related.

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              i think supply creates its own demand, but i don’t believe there is any causal mechanism by which choosing to buy something causes more of it to be produced, nor that production causes others to purchase it.

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                How can supply create demand while saying production doesnt cause demand in the same paragraph?

                Do you have some separate definition for supply and production I’m missing?

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                  i’m saying it’s not causal or, at least, it requires more than simply making a thing for it to be bought by someone. fidget spinners are a great example. lots were made with no real understanding of their potential market. some were sold just because it’s a cheap toy but it could easily have been any other similarly priced toy. the production created its own demand there, but not enough to empty every fidget spinner from a warehouse. so some other mechanism must be at play besides production (advertising, for instance). regardless, it certainly can’t be the case that demand actually caused all those fidget spinners to have been produced.

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                    The way I see it, demand and supply are separate things that have a single relationship between them. Changing things on one side will likely affect the relationship but its not easy to tell how when both sides are complex.

                    Affecting supply or demand could work, and I would recommend people do both if possible. I would put more weight on being vegan than trying to affect regulation though.

                    I would however consider it a waste of energy to work towards more humane slaughter as thats only one brief part of the suffering the animals endure.

                    I think if you want to focus on animal activism with regards to factory farms then it would be better served on stuff like minimum life spans or ending forced impregnation and the removal of newborn animals from mothers.

                    But again, even if we improve those things greatly it would still be inhumane treatment and I would still be vegan. I would be more comfortable if regulations like those did reduce the line on your graph.

                    I do think if we had to permit the animals to leave at least half of their natural lives or maybe 75% before slaughter, it would bottle neck production and tank it.

                    I guess I just am more sold on the vegan idea than the regulation idea, but both are completely unproven and have very low odds of success in the near future.

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          1 month ago

          Do I need to send you university debate level arguments

          i’m not interested in debate. i’m interested in provable claims.

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          I never claimed that me being a vegan would end animal suffering.

          you did say it would reduce it, but all the evidence is that is not true.

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            1 month ago

            You think, that I think, me personally being vegan will be the tipping point that causes a down trend in your graph?

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              1 month ago

              i’m saying if what you’re claiming is true, then it would follow that the growth of the industry would stop and reverse.

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                1 month ago

                There aren’t enough people eating less meat yet? I don’t think a problem of scale makes it futile. You are just assuming it would never grow big enough to affect the line.

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                  You are just assuming it would never grow big enough to affect the line.

                  i have made no such assumption. teh fact is that it has not, in fact, reduced suffering (if we regard all animal slaughter as suffering, and the most meaningful metric). to continue to claim that it will is just a hypothesis, and continues to be unsupported by the facts.

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                    1 month ago

                    My problem is that it could be working now but since theres no proof yet you won’t believe it. What if that line starts very slowly flattening out? Is that enough evidence?

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          1 month ago

          We’ve had this argument like twice already.

          and you still haven’t seemed to grasp the lack of evidence for your claim.