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Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell2 HN recommenders · recommended in 2 months, 2018-2021
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A Kurzgesagt animated explainer on meat: why people love it and what it costs animals, the environment and health. It lays out the complicated trade-offs of meat production and consumption.

Cited in animal-welfare and environmental threads as a short, thought-provoking piece on how humans treat animals.

Environment, agriculture & food systemsNutrition & diet sciencePhilosophy & ethics#meat#animalwelfare#environment#veganism#factoryfarming

3 comments from Hacker News

@sillysaurusx2021 · in “Female African elephants are evolving without tusks due to ivory poaching”

Listen. You're right. There, I gave you validation. But you're not going to change anyone's mind. So what's the point? Remember, the primary purpose of HN is entertainment (intellectual gratification). Internalizing this helped me break the habit of making such arguments "just to be right." I'll throw it back at you: Yes, I just ate two pork steaks. I have two more in the fridge. In fact, I'd personally murder a family of pigs if it was the only way I'd ever be able to eat pork steaks again. They're that delicious, and I am that selfish. Life isn't nice. It's brutal, short, and sprinkled with periods of happiness and ecstasy. It's always been that way, and it'll be that way long after we're gone. It is literally fine to use humans for sustenance if everyone collectively agrees it's fine, by the way. People have done it. link You could argue "Well, that was survival. Besides, those people were already dead." Literally every animal born into factory farming is already dead. They just don't realize it yet. I think linking to ▶ this video is probably your best bet at even getting people to stop and think about the question at all. Yet if even Kurzgesagt's eloquence doesn't make a dent (I still scarf down pork steaks on a regular basis), what hope do you have here? Once you internalize all of this, perhaps you'll be in a frame of mind to realize that it was off-topic to bring up factory farming in a thread about ivory poaching. I get where you're coming from, and I agree that it seem

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@arendtio2021 · in “The Animal Is Tired”

> ... it is the only animal I have ever treated this way. I wonder if that is actually true. I am thinking about this video and how we humans are treating all the other animals on this planet: ▶ this video Sure the text is about something different, but at times I do wonder how cruel we are and how little we think about it. I like to imagine seeing some aliens doing to us what we are doing to all the animals.

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@iN7h33nD2018 · in “Humanity has wiped out 60% of animals since 1970, major report finds”

Many sources would beg to differ about meat not being a problem. ▶ this video (Sources: link ) So even if FAO got it wrong, I just don't see beef not being a problem.

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