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Meat should be too expensive for daily consumption
Maybe, but that should be due to removal of subsidies and banning of factory farms, not rampant inflation.
Fair
...are you under the impression that this is restricted to meat?
Not even close to what straw man means
It basically is
This is an extremely monkey's paw post if I've ever seen one.
(I tend to agree that meat is too cheap and has many externalized costs that we all bear, though.)
*insert Thanos balance meme*
Yes, but it was never daily until a couple of decades ago.
Before you had like 3 meals a week with meat.
How much meat do you believe humans have been consuming for most of that existence?
Something isn't 'right' just because we've been doing it for a long time. We have the knowledge and tools now to improve ourselves.
Right? Slavery was common for a very long time. People used to just dump shit in the water in early cities and cause cholera outbreaks. Lots of old practices are no longer done for good reason
okay v*g*n.
It's okay, you are allowed to say vegan on the internet. Just don't show your parents if you're worried about them seeing it.
Pretty weak argument, that. Humans have also been murdering, raping, and enslaving other humans for our entire existence.