r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/James_Fortis • Sep 08 '26

Video This is the largest single-building pig farm in the world. At 26 storeys high, it can slaughter 1.2 million pigs per year. It was built in Ezhou, China, to help the country's exploding demand for pork. Pork is China's most popular meat, with the country consuming nearly half of global pork demand.

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u/Blablasnow Sep 08 '26 edited Sep 08 '26

Damnthatssad
Go vegetarian
Edit: even better, vegan

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u/Borkato Sep 08 '26

Go vegan. Vegetarian is a great start, and meatless Mondays for example are a great first step!

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u/Drobek97 Sep 08 '26

I am now starting Doublemeat Mondays to counter whoever got inspired by your comment.

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u/smoothvibe Sep 08 '26

Wow, how creative by you. Never heard that "joke" before...

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u/Azirtec Sep 08 '26

This is honestly such an expected response, it's sort of like making the no-barcode "is this free?" joke at a supermarket

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '26 edited 11d ago

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u/zedazeni Sep 08 '26

I’ve been a vegetarian for a few years now (can bench over 230 lbs and can leg press over 700 lbs) and drive an EV. I’m a guy. I can’t tell you how many other guys, both online and in-person, become offended by my lifestyle. Their entire personality (masculinity) is validated on how much other people are annoyed and irritated by their own existence (but it’s clearly a one-way street).

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u/Haunting-Lime-9084 Sep 08 '26

In this economy? Lmfao good luck

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u/Heavy-Top577 Sep 08 '26

So predictable.

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u/Acceptable-Drive3781 Sep 08 '26

Congestive heart failure don't let us down!

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u/Ishirkai Sep 08 '26 edited Sep 08 '26

Tell you what, I'll also quit meat every day of the week. You can have mine.

Do triple meat Mondays, and double meat every other day of the week. Eat your heart out.

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u/pussysushi Sep 09 '26

Lol nice😂

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u/Muted_Buy8386 Sep 08 '26

lmfao. No. I would eat the last living animal on the planet before I went vegan.

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u/shmatt Sep 08 '26

Your comments (especially below, lol) are pretty much the biggest cliche I've heard in my life.

Everyone's heard that BS before. Reality is though: you don't give a shit.

If you gonna be selfish just own it.

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u/Muted_Buy8386 Sep 08 '26

I am selfish. I own it.

Now what? Lol. Give me your stuff.

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u/kittynoaim Sep 08 '26

Question, what made you this way?
And i don't mean that in a jabbing sense, i'm genuinely curious.

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u/Muted_Buy8386 Sep 08 '26

Humans. There are no rules. No end game. No gods. Or devils. Nothing matters at all in the long run. Were you under the impression someone was keeping score?

So take what you can, do what you can get away with, exploit what you feel like, and die. Have a great big fucking family, and keep them before anyone else. Easy.

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u/Complete-Housing-720 Sep 08 '26

So essentially what you're saying is Evil is an inherent human trait and we need to make peace with that?

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u/Borkato Sep 08 '26

How does your ethical framework handle things like mass murderers and rapists who are just exploiting what they feel like?

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u/Muted_Buy8386 Sep 09 '26

I feel they're going to end up in the exact same place as the nicest person you know. And in ten thousand years none of it will matter at all, unless theyre a really impressive mass murderer.

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u/Borkato Sep 09 '26

Sure, does that mean it’s fine to hurt whoever you want?

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u/Defendant1597 Sep 09 '26 edited Sep 09 '26

I mean we have compassion and empathy. And we prefer living in harmony over killing each other.

Most people do feel compassion for other living creatures. The closer they are to us the better most people can imagine their suffering and usually would prefer to avoid that. I'm not saying it's some universal ethics or whatever, but our biology to some extent dictates our emotions and through that our morals and ethics.

You sound like you lack that, and then there really Isn't anything to argue about with you. But I find this nihilistic view extremely unpleasant.

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u/Muted_Buy8386 Sep 09 '26

"And we prefer living in harmony over killing each other."

Do we?

Why do we need laws and enforcement then?

"Most people do feel compassion for other living creatures"

Conditionally. You can love dogs. Never hurt them. But one bites on your kid's face, suddenly that line becomes a lil more mutable, yea?

"our biology to some extent dictates our emotions and through that our morals and ethics."

So humans can't be conditioned to be killers? I think this is a terrible premise.

"I find this nihilistic view extremely unpleasant."

Why is that? Were you under the impression that your individual existence mattered? Or is it just uncomfortable to think that you will end up with the same reward for your life that Putin or Hitler or Stalin or Gacy got?

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u/Defendant1597 Sep 11 '26

"Why do we need laws and enforcement then?"

Because there are some people that don't. Like you maybe, you sound like you don't care. And because conflicts are more complicated than someone wanting or not wanting to harm others. I'm just saying most people prefer harmony when the circumstances allow it. I think the fact that we have laws and enforcement proves my point more than yours tbh.

"Conditionally. You can love dogs. Never hurt them. But one bites on your kid's face, suddenly that line becomes a lil more mutable, yea?"

I never said we love everything equally and can never hurt another living being or that we can't feel anger and hatred. My kid would be much more important to me than my dog, I don't see any contradiction here.

"So humans can't be conditioned to be killers? I think this is a terrible premise."

They can. Again I don't see the contradiction you are trying to point out.
My bigger point is that emotions are relevant because that's what our ethics and morals come from. It's what everything boils down to at the end. And most people can feel empathy even for strange animals that aren't part of their family. It sounded like you can't.

"Why is that? Were you under the impression that your individual existence mattered? Or is it just uncomfortable to think that you will end up with the same reward for your life that Putin or Hitler or Stalin or Gacy got?"

Neither. I find it unpleasant because you are flaunting your inhumanity, your cold rationality. It's edgy. I would probably also find the views of most psychopaths unpleasant. I'm not calling you one (nihilism is luckily often just a phase :p) but your comments went in that direction, so I'm trying to make a point.

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u/pigpill Sep 11 '26

If you are pulling the biology card its way more in the favor of meat than non-meat.

You also sound like you dont have the empathy to think of the people who grew up feeding themselves from their farm or hunting.

Stop trying to be so sanctimonious (see I have a lexicon as well), and ignore the trolls. That dude is just asking you to do it.

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u/Defendant1597 Sep 11 '26

Is it though? Then how did veganism get so big in the first place? I think it's all about the circumstances. I never even said it's wrong to eat meat in itself. I said most people feel compassion for other creatures. I just don't like nihilists and their world view. Most people don't think that way.

Btw why the lexicon comment?

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u/shmatt Sep 08 '26

tf you want a cookie? As long as you know you're trash that'll do.

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u/Muted_Buy8386 Sep 08 '26

We can be trash together. You're every bit as human as I am. Enjoy us. <3

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u/shmatt Sep 09 '26

Nice try but the thing is, I am actually better than you :)

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u/Muted_Buy8386 Sep 09 '26

Sure. Sure you are. <3

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u/shmatt Sep 09 '26

lol so everything you said was BS then. you said humans are all scum etc but here we have an instance where I choose the betterment of the planet, and those around me and you choose to say F it. So it literally is true that I'm better than you.

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u/Massive_Judgment5668 Sep 09 '26

I'm better than you. I own it.

Now what? Lol. Go live your sad lonely life.

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u/Muted_Buy8386 Sep 09 '26

Lol OoOOoooOOoh that showed ME!

Gurl! Slay!

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u/Massive_Judgment5668 Sep 09 '26

Hey man, we all have to cope with things in life. I have to cope with living among sad broken lost losers, and you have to cope with being a sad broken lost loser.

Duality of man and all that.

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u/Muted_Buy8386 Sep 09 '26

OoOOOooOOh! I felt that one!

Bahaha.

I'd have to respect you as a living entity for that to land in any way.

You are so cute though. Do another one! Roll over, doggie!

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u/Borkato Sep 08 '26

Why?

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u/DecantsForAll Sep 08 '26

Because they're too fragile to admit what they're doing is morally wrong so they have to double down on doing it as some sort of defense mechanism.

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u/pigpill Sep 11 '26

Horrible conditions = morally wrong
Good conditions = morally right

I think we can all agree that if an animal is going to die (in before 'no animal has to die') we all here would like it to be treated with thoughtfulness and care.

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u/Short-Paramedic-9740 Sep 09 '26

You decide what's moral?

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u/Muted_Buy8386 Sep 08 '26

Because I enjoy eating meat.

Plants taste largely like leafy-asshole, unless they're seasoned into oblivion. I don't like what I perceive to taste as asshole. Maybe that's different for vegans.

I also loathe mock products. If your cuisine is worth anything, it doesn't need to make knockoffs of worthwhile products.

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u/house343 Sep 08 '26

"plants taste bad unless you use other plants to make them taste good" do you even hear yourself?

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u/Muted_Buy8386 Sep 08 '26

But no one is just eating fucking oregano, are they? That's what invalids do.

You need to work far harder to make plants palatable than you do meat.

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u/Borkato Sep 08 '26

If you think drinking things like straight up estrogen and pus in cow’s milk tastes better than a product like oat milk made from plants, or that ground animal flesh is better than mock meat, that’s your prerogative. But how much pleasure you get from something isn’t a justification for the harm you cause, otherwise we’d be raping everyone we felt like because it feels good to us to penetrate, after all.

Edit: not to mention the idea that raw animal flesh tastes good is fucking hilariously wrong

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u/Muted_Buy8386 Sep 08 '26

No, it's the feeling knowing it should have gone to a calf but it goes to me instead.

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u/Muted_Buy8386 Sep 08 '26

And if you've never gone to Japan and enjoyed horse meat sashimi, that's your loss. Truly.

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u/eljudio42 Sep 08 '26

Then you'd have no choice to become vegetarian cause all the animals would be gone. 😂

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u/Muted_Buy8386 Sep 08 '26

Then I will die happy and clogged with cholesterol.

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u/RyanEatsHisVeggies Sep 08 '26

Vegan for the win though. Eggs and dairy are still tied to this industry of exploitation, abuse, suffering, and slaughter. Vegetarianism is a great start, but male chicks and calves are culled by the billions every year too, and the females have to be forcibly impregnated and kept in unnaturally confined spaces for the rest of their lives.

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u/Blablasnow Sep 08 '26

Im all for vegan but since im getting downvoted to oblivion when i mention this I tried vegetarian this time

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u/C-D_legacy10 Sep 08 '26

There is no slaughtering for dairy and eggs

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u/a1c4pwn Sep 08 '26

you should probably look into what the dairy industry does with the babies for whom the milk was made, or what the egg industry does with the half of all chicks that won't grow up to lay eggs.

They kill them. Male chicks are dumped live into a meat grinder, while dairy cow's children are ripped from their mothers, usually to either be chained up for the entirety of their short lives before being killed for veal, or to be regularly forced to be impregnated as dairy cows themselves, where they'll make it to late adolescence before being killed.   

Eggs and dairy, as industries, are unsustainable without mass slaughter.

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u/C-D_legacy10 Sep 08 '26

No need to , I know how they operate and you definitely are fed by the propaganda machine

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u/Broad_Bill7791 Sep 09 '26

Big vegetable corporations and their propaganda.

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u/jackster31415 Sep 09 '26

Great sources you gave there

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u/RyanEatsHisVeggies Sep 08 '26

So what do they do with the male chicks and male calves? Let them live out their lives?

(Hint: I already know the answer and have the statistics if you want them from me instead of googling it.)

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u/C-D_legacy10 Sep 08 '26

Eggs being consumed do not turn into chicks

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u/RyanEatsHisVeggies Sep 08 '26

And who lay the eggs? Female chickens. How do you get female chickens? Let eggs hatch. What happens when they hatch male?

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u/Acceptable-Drive3781 Sep 08 '26

Why is it that dairy cows produce milk so often anyway?

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u/VeganMortgageAdviser Sep 08 '26

They're constantly pregnant. They'll give birth to 3, maybe 4 calves and then their bodies give out. They stop producing milk, they are then killed.

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u/Acceptable-Drive3781 Sep 08 '26

They're constantly pregnant

Certainly they're not doing this naturally on their own free will...

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u/C-D_legacy10 Sep 08 '26 edited Sep 08 '26

Not constantly pregnant, you’re showing your ignorance on the subject.
They were pregnant, they’re mammals, produce milk after giving birth, they will / can produce milk up to 2 years after one birth, Their bodies will cut milk production naturally and cow will go back into heat,

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u/RyanEatsHisVeggies Sep 08 '26 edited Sep 08 '26

What about "their mammals?"

What about any of what you said makes it ethical to forcefully confine and inseminate other creatures to force them to be pregnant and produce milk only to take their babies away and either condemn them to the same fate or death?

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u/C-D_legacy10 Sep 08 '26

You don’t have to consume. You can be a keyboard warrior all you want, you are not ending the industry

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u/RyanEatsHisVeggies Sep 08 '26

That doesn't answer the question and is not a response to what I said. When you're able, try again.

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u/C-D_legacy10 Sep 08 '26

Since you rant all over, hard to tell what you’re asking, and if you really want any info, that you don’t already have made up your own mind about so……..
Have a good day

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u/VeganMortgageAdviser Sep 08 '26

Erm, there is arguably more slaughter!

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u/Muted_Buy8386 Sep 08 '26

Hahahah. No.

Long pork would be on the table before short pork left it.

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u/RyanEatsHisVeggies Sep 08 '26

No? What about what I said was incorrect?

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u/Muted_Buy8386 Sep 08 '26

Vegan for the win.

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u/RyanEatsHisVeggies Sep 08 '26

Now you get it!

"Vegan for the win." - Muted_Buy8386 🥳🫡💚

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u/Muted_Buy8386 Sep 08 '26

Yes, even I can regurgitate asshole quotes from idiots who know nothing. It's a mechanism. :)

You asked where you were incorrect. I stated it plainly. You got emotional. Maybe it's all that soy?

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u/RyanEatsHisVeggies Sep 08 '26

Emotional? What? While you're the one using ad hominems?

What makes the quote an "asshole quote"?

What empirical effect could soy be having anywhere here?

The commentors before me that I replied to were lamenting how this system of exploitation "is fucked" in their own words and were contemplating how to mitigate the harm done by it—if that is the expressed goal, them how is veganism not the answer?

You haven't been able to show anything I've said was wrong. Now, point out the emotional response, is it in the room with us?

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u/Muted_Buy8386 Sep 08 '26

"What makes the quote an "asshole quote"?"

Anything touting veganism. Easy.

"What empirical effect could soy be having anywhere here?"

Artificially raised estrogen levels. Emotional outbursts.

"how is veganism not the answer?"

Because there's no worse subset of humans. They're worse than the epstein island people. They're worse than day-traders. They're worse than most gang-members.

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u/RyanEatsHisVeggies Sep 08 '26

anything touting veganism [makes a quote an asshole quote]

How? Why? That really isn't an explanation. What makes that an empircal truth rooted in fact rather than an emotional response?

Artificially raised estrogen levels. Emotional outbursts.

Can you link a scientific study that shows soy raises estrogen in men? Can you quote the emotional outburst for me?

"how is veganism not the answer?" Because there's no worse subset of humans. They're worse than the epstein island people. They're worse than day-traders. They're worse than most gang-members.

Again, when the people I were replying to were discussing how "fucked" animal agriculture is with the expressed intent to mitigate the harm done by it, then how is veganism not the answer? What would be? And, to be sure, by your own admission here, you admit you tolerate people that rape and trafficking children more than people that believe in harming animals as little as practicably possible? You just said that.

You haven't been able to show anything I've said was wrong for another reply in a row. Now, point out the emotional response, is it in the room with us? Why haven't you been able to do that yet?

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u/Massive_Judgment5668 Sep 08 '26

You're so triggered by veganism that you reply to every comment in the thread, desperate for attention. You think it's all coming across one way, but it's actually coming across as cope. Eat meat or don't, but either way, get a fuckin life.

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u/BurntNeurons Sep 08 '26

"Why do a good thing halfway? That's too easy."

Real men go Vegan.

🥸

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u/iamdabrick Sep 08 '26

please stop saying "real men"

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u/BurntNeurons Sep 08 '26 
"A man is angry at a libel because it is false, but at a satire because it is true."

G. K. Chesterton

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u/Borkato Sep 08 '26

This implies that all satires are good faith, which they’re not

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u/BurntNeurons Sep 08 '26

One can confuse an implication for an assumption or personal opinion.

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u/Borkato Sep 08 '26

I don’t really get it

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u/pussysushi Sep 08 '26

But I need my body and immune system to grow strong 😞

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u/jackster31415 Sep 09 '26

You can do that with plants! Even some athletes at the Olympics are vegan, and they certainly need better foods than you or I

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u/Short-Paramedic-9740 Sep 09 '26

Michael Phelps, Usain Bolt, Magnus Carlsen, and David Goggins are not vegans. I guess there's a reason why those vegans can't be the best.

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u/jackster31415 Sep 09 '26

Putting David Goggins there is hilarious.

But only 1% of the population is vegan, of course the probability is higher that people at the top of sports (or anything) aren’t vegan. That’s just statistics

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u/Short-Paramedic-9740 Sep 10 '26

Biology as well.

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u/pigpill Sep 11 '26

lol, why vegan? Are my bees being harmed for harvesting honey? Are my ducks suffering because I eat their eggs?

Where do you draw the line? Many mushrooms and plants have shown signs of intelligence/pain avoidance/survival mechanisms. Why do you eat those?

I assume you know that to grow plants in the same soil over years you kind of need some stuff derived from animals for plant and ground fertility. Obviously we could GMO or use science and money to reduce that need. I would rather my money for that go to actual dying or starving people instead.

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u/pradeep23 Sep 08 '26

humans developed their brain and intelligence due to consumption of meat. This kinda thing, tho sad is necesary till we figure out lab based meat. Perhaps in another few decades lap based meat will be same as animal meat.

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u/noXi0uz Sep 08 '26

science disagrees. You can live perfectly healthy without any animal products and vegans are even healthier on average than the non-vegans.

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u/pradeep23 Sep 08 '26

science definitely disagrees with vegans and vegetarians diet.

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u/Southlinch Sep 08 '26

it is so brutally enlightening to see people be so adamantly incorrect and willfully ignorant about a subject you have extensive knowledge about. You could not be more wrong.

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u/jackster31415 Sep 09 '26

Imma need some sources on that

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u/VeganMortgageAdviser Sep 08 '26

Actually, in correct. Increased consumption of meat is a very recent thing.

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u/Maleficent-Fee-9194 Sep 08 '26

Nope. That thing will change only if we are forced by laws.
It's like using paper straws etc.
Also meat is cheaper.

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u/Individual_Isopod411 Sep 08 '26

Meat is definitely more expensive than vegetables.

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u/dissonaut69 Sep 08 '26

Meat is also much more expensive than lentils and tofu.

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u/Southlinch Sep 08 '26

and thats taking into account the absurd subsidies

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u/Maleficent-Fee-9194 Sep 09 '26

You can't eat vegs only. It's nothing affordable for me here. Tbh I only eat chicken. Don't really like other meat taste n texture. It's disgusting.

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u/Individual_Isopod411 Sep 13 '26

Oh no you definitely can only eat vegetables and plants. Im not talking raw vegetables, but even then you can just eat lentils, rice, salads, tofu, tempeh, mushrooms... there are so many food items that arent meat, all of them cheaper.

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u/ceaseful Sep 08 '26

Only you are ultimately responsible for your own consumption of animal products

You don't have to wait for laws to force you to make a positive change