So I raise beef… should people starve?
I raise beef and grains. I am not organic and I use implants because I get (much) better yields and (much) larger cattle. Without industrial slaughter houses and chemical pesticides the world would literally starve. Yes third world countries are currently buying all the chemicals and implants they can get their hands on to feed their people. The U.S. exports huge quantities of meat and grain to feed the world. How do you explain your reasoning? Why should people starve so you feel better about what you eat?
I enjoyed reading your responses. None of them have touched the organic part yet. Any reasoning on that? Just trying to see from a different perspective not prove anyone wrong.
Forgot to add that implants are given to cattle to help them gain faster. Yes, they probably are bad for the animal in the long run but they don’t live that long anyway.
It’s something like, it takes seven pounds of grain to raise one pound of beef, or something like that.
Seven pounds of food can feed seven times more people. They wouldn’t starve. Use the resources we use on producing meat to produce vegetables. Why not?
I mean, you probably don’t have a moral complex with taking life unneccessarily for food. That’s okay. Neither did I for a long time.
People change though. They’ve had experiences unlike the ones you’ve had that have convinced them to make these decisions, just like like how you’ve had experiences that they haven’t had that makes you feel okay about eating meat.
To each their own, I suppose. But there’s been many intelligent people who have shown the world is technologically capable of feeding everyone, without anyone having to consume meat. Not a lot of people are too driven towards pursuing that idea though. If they were, it would be accomplished.
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