That's not true; it's a misconception of economics. Supply adjusts dynamically with demand. They will not just continue producing the same amount of meat and throwing away the meat you do not buy. If you buy less meat, the store will order less meat from the butcher, who will get less meat from the slaughter house, which will slaughter fewer animals and order fewer from the farmer, who will raise and breed fewer animals.Cyclone wrote: Back to the point: I know that by changing meat for other products I would help (atleast to some extent) but the problem that I've tlaked about with other people also is that the meat will be produced even if i don't buy it, so you cant really talk about me about ending suffering that has already been done.
As you buy meat, you increase the demand, and more suffering occurs. If you don't buy meat, they will produce less meat. This happens on a global scale, where as people in the West eat less meat, the farms and slaughterhouses are scaling down production.
They are not just opinions and personal choices. By purchasing meat, you're causing harm to non-human animals and human beings too.Cyclone wrote: And yes, I yet again understand your point about changing slowly, and I know that human taste does change overtime... But what if I simply don't want to go full vegan? Are my opinions and choices bothering you somehow? :c(no, that was not passsive-aggressive, just asking)
Have you heard that animal agriculture is a major cause of global warming? It also wastes huge amounts of resources in this world with a growing population.
If we're talking about something like homosexuality, it's a matter in your private sex life which doesn't harm anybody else. Conservatives should have no place to criticize that, since it doesn't hurt them. It's harmless, and disagreement is a matter of religious opinion.
But issues like this are very different, because your behavior harms others. Demonstrably so.
Consider an analogy:
Is it a personal choice for somebody to rape? What if that person simply doesn't not want to stop raping? Can you criticize such behavior? Are his opinions and choices as a rapist bothering you?
Even if he does not rape you personally, perhaps his behavior harms others, and as a person with moral concern for the well being of others, you would ask him to stop raping, and try to teach him a better way to live.