• wrenchmonkey
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    5 months ago

    classic liberal moving, trying to trick us into eating water bugs

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    5 months ago

    If we lower the demand by not eating them, we can lower the supply taken from the ocean by self interested businesses trying to maximize profits. This ad increases consumer demand by framing consumption as good. It is far better to minimize our consumption of animals if we care about their lives.

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      5 months ago

      I agree with the sentiment, but my experience of capitalism is that it would not cause reduction in resource exploitation. The reduced cost because of lower demand would just make it profitable to some other industry instead, who would use up the supply.

      In some cases, you can even have the government intervene, like subsidizing production to avoid loss of jobs.

      It’s really a grab all you can world out there :(

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    5 months ago

    You can bet the same people who made this sign would lose it if someone told them they didn’t eat meat.

    Bragging about killing animals to eat is really not the flex you think it is Jimmy.

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      5 months ago

      Doesn’t really seem like a brag so much as a tongue-in-cheek way of dismissing it. “Yeah, we kill animals. But… the food is good?”

      Though I certainly see what you mean.

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      5 months ago

      These signs came about in response to PETA running a bunch of crazy billboards in their town.