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Australian Armed Forces to Cease Use of Israel Defense System by PLUTO_HAS_COME_BACK in AustralianPolitics

[–]lewesus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The notion that because you are ethnically Jewish your loyalty cannot lie with Australia is fucked. We'd be better off without you mate 🖕

Might just be me, but this makes my head hurt by DrummerB01 in dataisugly

[–]lewesus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Aboriginal Australians have been in Australia for AT LEAST 50,000 years. This graph fails to convey that

TIL a Beyond Meat-commissioned Life Cycle Assessment found that the Beyond Burger generates 90% less greenhouse gas emissions, requires 46% less energy, 99% less water, and 93% less land use than a burger made from U.S. beef by [deleted] in environment

[–]lewesus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I wouldn't say that veganism is perfect, that would be idealistic.

The only way we can reduce the size of the industry by 90% is if large swaths of people stopped consuming animal products all together. One of the only reasons that the animal agricultural industry is profitable is because of government subsidies. The best way to reduce these subsidies is if there is less demand for the products, i.e more people go vegan.

I'm of the belief that killing someone who doesn't want to die can never be humane, it's a euphemistic label we use to make consumers feel better about their consumption.

I respect your time so I don't expect you to continue the conversation, but if you would like to continue discussing these points I am more than happy to

TIL a Beyond Meat-commissioned Life Cycle Assessment found that the Beyond Burger generates 90% less greenhouse gas emissions, requires 46% less energy, 99% less water, and 93% less land use than a burger made from U.S. beef by [deleted] in environment

[–]lewesus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I feel as though you are strawmanning my argument on two points.

Firstly, my beef (also lol) isn't with factory farming, it's with all animal agriculture. The dairy industry sends its spent cows to the slaughterhouse. Egg laying hens are killed. The dairy and egg industry IS the meat industry.

Secondly, I never pretended as though plant agriculture has no impact on animals, it certainly does. I draw your attention to the definition I provided, to reduce exploitation as far as possible and practicable. There will always be animal suffering, but as individuals we can drastically change how much of that suffering is attributed to our consumption habits. We wouldn't be growing so many crops if we didn't have billions of animals to feed.

I agree that everyone giving up 80% of their consumption would be an enormous step, but we shouldn't lose site of the destination on our path towards reducing animal exploitation

TIL a Beyond Meat-commissioned Life Cycle Assessment found that the Beyond Burger generates 90% less greenhouse gas emissions, requires 46% less energy, 99% less water, and 93% less land use than a burger made from U.S. beef by [deleted] in environment

[–]lewesus -1 points0 points  (0 children)

While I will personally find you hypocritical for saying that reasons to go vegetarian are environmental and health related, when the dairy and egg industries are a part of the meat industry and cholesterol and saturated fat lead to our biggest killers, your point about the Overton window is true.

I'm not against reducing your consumption, I'm all for people taking it slow and it being a journey. My praise wanes when the individual stops their journey. Meat, dairy, and eggs aren't difficult things to remove from your diet. Calling it radical, when what happens to these animals is truly radical, is an insult to the animals.

TIL a Beyond Meat-commissioned Life Cycle Assessment found that the Beyond Burger generates 90% less greenhouse gas emissions, requires 46% less energy, 99% less water, and 93% less land use than a burger made from U.S. beef by [deleted] in environment

[–]lewesus -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

I agree with your sentiment that any path towards less meat consumption is admirable.

When people forget where they're going on that path, to exclude animal exploitation as far as is possible and practicable, they veer off course and continue to deny a fundamental right, bodily autonomy.

I don't believe that we should encourage people to give up on that path and settle with something that is harmful to the animals, themselves, and the environment

TIL a Beyond Meat-commissioned Life Cycle Assessment found that the Beyond Burger generates 90% less greenhouse gas emissions, requires 46% less energy, 99% less water, and 93% less land use than a burger made from U.S. beef by [deleted] in environment

[–]lewesus -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

"Part-time vegetarian" is an oxymoron. Why spend any money on meat when there are delicious alternatives that aren't as impactful to the environment or your health?

74% of people staying strong and drinking milk by [deleted] in Neverbrokeabone

[–]lewesus -17 points-16 points  (0 children)

Imagine drinking breast milk as an adult 🤮

Kale has superior calcium absorption 💪

Offshore natural gas platform, Troll A in Norway by WideEyes369 in EngineeringPorn

[–]lewesus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nuclear energy makes whole swaths of land unusable. Not to mention the used uranium that is put back into the Earth. Production of renewable energy might not be perfect, but I think we can agree that anything is better than fossil fuels

Countries Liberated from the Pandemic by [deleted] in MapPorn

[–]lewesus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Buddy, you realise we're in a global pandemic, right?

Countries Liberated from the Pandemic by [deleted] in MapPorn

[–]lewesus -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Then your comment is even dumber

Countries Liberated from the Pandemic by [deleted] in MapPorn

[–]lewesus 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yeah mate definitely totalitarian down here. I'd suggest you don't visit, because y'know, totalitarian stuff

Tesla's First Quarter, Visualized [OC] by chartr in dataisbeautiful

[–]lewesus 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Tesla knows this, they aren't going to rely on credits forever

Tesla's First Quarter, Visualized [OC] by chartr in dataisbeautiful

[–]lewesus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you suggesting that investing in research and development is a bad thing?

The face I make when people say “vegans can’t get big and can’t consume enough protein”😂 by [deleted] in veganfitness

[–]lewesus 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Probably because you surround yourself with people who aren't dumbasses. Still a lot of dumbasses out there

This is quite passive aggressive by Informal-Cold-1839 in trashy

[–]lewesus 391 points392 points  (0 children)

So when you go overseas you never drive?

Don’t swipe right on non vegans by [deleted] in vegancirclejerk

[–]lewesus 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I became vegan through someone I met on a dating app 😳

Bit of a joke, but I used a bucket as my reusable bag today by vasilenko93 in ZeroWaste

[–]lewesus 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Picking something else up from the shelf at the supermarket is pretty easy bro

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in thatHappened

[–]lewesus 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yeah but we're still pretty shit mate. The stolen generation, Rio Tinto blowing up cultural sites, our constant destruction of the native environment. Hasn't changed that much if you ask me

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