The IDF is bombing schools and hospitals because they're carrying out a genocide.
Resistance fighters aren't hiding behind hostages, that's unchecked libel. In fact Israel has demonstrated repeatedly that it is willing to kill it's own people to kill resistance fighters.
Fair points all around in your first paragraph. But the question remains... Why would we want to maintain a herd of large, non-native, probably ecologically destructive, post-domesticated animals in the wild? Seems like a very poor choice, and a treatment we've repeatedly failed to extend to most native species.
Technically there is very little evidence of the benefits of flouridated water, aside from reducing tooth decay
Reducing tooth decay is such a massive benefit to the population that at first I thought you were making as sarcastic joke here. I think you underestimate what a big deal that actually is.
I must say, I don't like lab grown meat in the future being the reason why omnivores don't give a fair shake to already-existing vegan meat replacements today. Forever being out there on the time horizon can be misused as a long term excuse for not cutting down on animal exploitation.
What part bewilders you? The "sexual politics of meat" part, or that fact that they chose a conservative stereotype to demonstrate an example? Because their theory is absolutely a thing in our society, meat is unarguably and demonstrably tied into masculinity for a lot of men as the result of advertising and social conditioning. If their example is what bewilders you though I think I can empathize, because this phenomenon is not at all something exclusive to conservatives or the right. Maybe just more pronounced on that side of culture. Plenty of liberal men conflate meat eating with masculinity, to degrees.
It is an artificial politics though. As in we don't naturally have this association with masculinity, it's propagandized by the industry. If we somehow got to the point of society actually divesting from animal farming, I think we'd already have started tackling the masculinity propaganda to some degree. It'll be a long hard fight though.
No, cows are far too domesticated to have a decent go of it in the wild. They depend on things like antibiotics and vitamins and constant vet maintenance to survive. They'd be pretty fucked in short order and until then they'd wreak havoc on native ecology.
Um the same thing would happen to them that already happens to them: They'd be killed within a few years for people to eat. The only difference is that they wouldn't be forcibly inseminated to have more babies. I must say though, yours is not at all the first time I've heard someone ponder this and the confusion over the scenario always baffles me. You know that we raise cows specifically to kill them and we have complete control over how many are born, yea? No they wouldn't wander aimless into the ecosystem, they'd stay on the farm until slaughtered and we just wouldn't raise more of them.
I swear to god the month that I embraced TVP and started using it in my cooking, it all got pulled from Safeway and Fred Meyers store shelves. It's like they fucking knew. It's like.... Come on you motherfuckers it's literally a basic and highly available food product. Please just stock it.
My vegan perspective: I'm uncomfortable with foods that continue to reproduce the aesthetics of exploitation and probably wouldn't eat it myself. But because it's affect on the world would likely include a sizable reduction in actual real animal exploitation, I'd welcome it's introduction and maybe even promote it to some.
New music is doing fantastic, it's record companies that are dying. Most artists just self-publish these days.
Your life reads like the lyrics of Sympathy for the Devil.