• osanna@thebrainbin.org
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    5 days ago

    If animal flesh wasn’t subsidised so much in a lot of places, no one except the wealthy would be able to afford to eat animals.

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      5 days ago

      Yes and no. Prices may rise but that doesn’t necessarily mean the poorer would be unable to eat meat.

      Current western culture, outside of explicit vegan and vegetarianism, has people eating meat almost every day, for both lunch and dinner, and occasionally for breakfast and snacks too.

      Fish may be eaten once or twice a week, but generally people eat some form of chicken, beef, turkey, pork, or lamb every single day, at least twice a day.

      Instead of being an item that is eaten with almost every meal, it could instead be treated as an item to only consume occasionally. Or once a day instead of multiple times a day.

      Protein and flavour is in plentiful supply from plants.

      Note: before the “um actually, I don’t”, this is a broad generalisation of western food habits. Not necessarily indicative of specific people’s individual habits.