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[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
  1. Humans have also been eating meat for millennia. We're omnivores, and have always been opportunistic about what we eat
  2. Individuals cutting down their personal meat consumption won't stop factory farming, but ending subsidies that make that practice highly profitable might
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Point 2 would never be politically possible unless there’s already critical mass of voting vegetarians.