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Most noteworthy for me is the fact that more Americans think that porn (52%) and homosexuality (39%) are wrong than spanking children (23%) and being ultra wealthy (18%).
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https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2026/03/19/what-do-americans-consider-immoral/
Not understanding that production induces demand is something that people who have never read theory or studied economics fail to comprehend.
You didn't consume meat. That doesn't change the fact that meat was produced and has gone to waste. Happens every year. Look into food waste statistics. Yet somehow the companies that know they are just throwing products in the trash still overproduce and come out making profits off of it. You'll never change the system by focusing on inconsequential, individual action. The only way to solve the issue is to take control of the system first.
Quit it with your misplaced blame. The responsibility lies with the ones who own the means to which the product was produced. Ya know, the whole "means of production" thing? Maybe learn about it and the fundamentals of how it works instead of gobbling up capitalist propaganda that lies about how it works to shift the blame onto consumers.
This sounds incredibly naive. But ill bite, where can i read about how production is entirely unswayed by demand?
it will be interesting reading how doubling of halfing consumption will have zero effect on an industry despite countless examples of the opposite occurring in real life
Regardless, the issue of meat isnt a problem with the system, since there's no ethical consumption of meat. Unless you propose taking over the means of production to burn it down.
Kropotkin's "Conquest of Bread". Start there. And FYI, I never said it is entirely unswayed by demand, only that demand does not influence it in the way that capitalist realism propaganda of supply-demand makes it appear to.
There are ethical methods to the production and thus consumption of meat. They do exist. So piss off with this claim that there is no ethical consumption of meat. There is nothing inherently unethical about the consumption of meat. Humans are animals and part of the wider ecosystem and our consumption of meat is just as ethical as when any other animal consumes another for its sustenance. The issue is entirely with the system and how it incentivises certain methods over others due to arbitrary societal structures.
Thanks, ill have a look.
it feels like youve backpedaled. Consumers /do/ influemce production, just not as much as you think I think they do.
To match your tone, piss off with thid claim that unnecessary killing is ethical. "animals do it, and we are animals, therefore its ethical for is to do" is a lazy argument that doesnt stand up to 20 seconds of thought.
Just because you didn't understand the original argument doesn't mean the clarification of misunderstanding means I'm backpedaling.
People need to eat and animals are food. Get over yourself with your arbitrary moral judgements.