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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
I agree. Was just pointing out the irony, the thought of that becoming policy was funny to me.
I dunno. If you look at most of the writings on animal rights, they focus mostly on negative rights and deny we have positive duties to animals. You see a handful of dissenters but that's the "consensus" so to speak. And of course the utilitarians like Singer would support phasing out cow use.
Of course even though the animal rights movement seem to follow these philosophers' word like fans, they're prone to letting their emotions get the better of them, so they'd be unlikely to listen in the hypothetical case here.
Which is why there are so many cows in the first place.
Frankly, I think there would be an almost-easy way to reduce the cow population (i.e. make people stop breeding them): Set an emissions tax on cow meat. So less people will spend their money on it, and less of them will be bred.
Main difficulty is, it requires saying "US" and "Emissions Tax" in the same sentence.
"And as long as a sack of shit is not a good thing to be, chivalry will never die."@The Twilight of the Neoconservatives: Well, no wonder the neoconservatives are collapsing. All of their policies have just made America weaker as a superpower, whereas offering the olive branch seems to work extremely well. Because of them, the Middle East and by extension, Europe via the refugee crisis, have become more unstable than they had ever been. This is a complete, total failure of neocon policy. Meanwhile, Obama is extending the olive branch to Cuba and Iran, which will likely make them be more friendly towards American interests in the future. Just because America has the most powerful army in the world by far does not mean that America shouldn't seek reasonable peace first.
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Republicans think anything less than a full invasion and destruction of Iran and it's people is unacceptable.
And Iranians are trying to make efforts to be friends with us. There's a lot of western friendly people over there and their government can't suppress or ignore the sentiment any longer.
edited 10th Mar '16 2:22:40 PM by LeGarcon
Oh really when?Some fear the Iran deal is too soft and won't stop an Iranian nuclear program.
Others think that any kind of diplomatic success by Obama - especially one as large as fixing the Iran nuclear program controversy - needs to be killed.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman![]()
It could be, but I think in this case it means "artificially grown tissues". So, instead of raising an animal, killing it, and harvesting its muscles, we just grow the muscles artificially and then eat those.
edited 10th Mar '16 2:38:57 PM by Protagonist506
Leviticus 19:34

You know, I just realized the NATO is a acronym from North A Tlantic Ocean.