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  1. Comment on The biggest animal welfare victory of the 21st century, explained in one chart | Global fur production has collapsed. Here’s how it happened. in ~enviro

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    Yes, the fight isn't over, but it's a sign we can make a lot of progress when we try. People often think animal rights issues are futile, but this a very clear example that we can dramatically...

    Yes, the fight isn't over, but it's a sign we can make a lot of progress when we try. People often think animal rights issues are futile, but this a very clear example that we can dramatically change things for the better!

    We should very skeptical of any claims about stunning in general. It has very high failure rates in general, and some research suggests it may not even actually stop the pain, just immobilize

    A study realised in a Mexican slaughterhouse previously demonstrated that, of 8,118 animals monitored as part of the study, only 51% of them were correctly immobilised. [33] Another study carried out in Europe which considered 585 bulls, 306 cows, 58 steers and 49 calves revealed that stunning had failed in 12.5% of instances and that the interval between the shot and the beheading was more than 100 seconds.[34]

    This technique, even when applied in the correct manner, does not guarantee that the animals lose consciousness and many animals show signs of suffering after being shot.

    https://traslosmuros.com/en/slaughterhouses-investigation-mexico (NSFL)

    Producing it also has a high environmental cost that we just tend to miss it because it's less visible than the use side. It's actually one of the highest polluting textile materials because it takes a lot of animal feed

    To produce 1 kg of fur requires more than 11 animals. In the course of its lifetime, mink eat about 50 kg of feed, resulting in 563 kg of feed required per kg of fur. Although the feed consists mainly of offal and this is accounted for by very low allocation of environmental impacts, the 563 kilos required to produce 1 kg of fur knocks on considerably in the total environmental footprint of fur and for 14 of the 18 impact categories studied, feed is the predominant factor. Compared with textiles, fur has a higher impact per kg in 17 of the 18 environmental categories, including climate change, eutrophication and toxic emissions. In many cases, fur has impacts that are a factor 2 to 28 higher than textiles, even when lower-bound values are taken for various links in the production chain.

    https://web.archive.org/web/20120414150412/https://www.ce.nl/publicatie/the_environmental_impact_of_mink_fur_production/1131

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  2. Comment on The biggest animal welfare victory of the 21st century, explained in one chart | Global fur production has collapsed. Here’s how it happened. in ~enviro

  7. Comment on A fire killed 18,000 cows in Texas. It’s a horrifyingly normal disaster. in ~food

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    Posting this as there was recently a fire that killed 1.3 million chickens without much media attention outside of local news there. Barn fires are surprisingly common around the world and kill...

    Posting this as there was recently a fire that killed 1.3 million chickens without much media attention outside of local news there. Barn fires are surprisingly common around the world and kill hundreds of thousands to millions of farm animals each year

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  9. Comment on I gave up meat and gained so much more | A tale of one person's life, culture, and growing up in ~life

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    The other person replied with some more specific suggestions, but in more general terms I do recommend looking up "traditionally vegan dish in XYZ country" and pick a random country from all over...

    The other person replied with some more specific suggestions, but in more general terms I do recommend looking up "traditionally vegan dish in XYZ country" and pick a random country from all over the world. You'll end up with a lot of really good recipes you never would have thought of. It's a lot of fun to make things that way

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  10. Comment on I gave up meat and gained so much more | A tale of one person's life, culture, and growing up in ~life

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    Glad to hear that other people found liked this story / found that it resonated well with them!

    Glad to hear that other people found liked this story / found that it resonated well with them!

    4 votes

  11. Comment on I gave up meat and gained so much more | A tale of one person's life, culture, and growing up in ~life

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    Ah, I took your earlier comment to be implying that the given reason alone was sufficient to justify farming and killing of non-human animal

    Ah, I took your earlier comment to be implying that the given reason alone was sufficient to justify farming and killing of non-human animal

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  12. Comment on I gave up meat and gained so much more | A tale of one person's life, culture, and growing up in ~life

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    Humans also behave in all those horrific ways too. Because that behavior can exist in humans, then following that logic, one could use it as justification to farm and kill humans? Edit: Oh yes...

    Humans also behave in all those horrific ways too. Because that behavior can exist in humans, then following that logic, one could use it as justification to farm and kill humans?

    Edit: Oh yes that definition is certainly subject to a lot of discussion. Many people who are vegan don't like the "as far as is possible and practical" wording and argue for differing definitions for exactly how subjective it is

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  13. Comment on I gave up meat and gained so much more | A tale of one person's life, culture, and growing up in ~life

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    It's really not a monolith at all. What people eat will vary dramatically depending on who you ask and where in the world they live. People with cultures that do large dishes will generally still...

    It's really not a monolith at all. What people eat will vary dramatically depending on who you ask and where in the world they live. People with cultures that do large dishes will generally still do plenty of large dishes and those use to small dishes will generally do small dishes.

    It can be as simple or complex as you want. For instance, you can still make a quick sandwich, peanut butter and jelly, hummus, plant-based meats, etc. Or you can make a more involved dish like Koshari (Egyptian street food that's really good and traditionally fully vegan)

    One great way to find recipes that you never would have thought of is looking up "traditionally plant-based food in XYZ country". I love doing that, just pick a random country and give it a go. You'll for instance, find that say Ethiopian Injera bread is great and that are a lot of good split-pea and lentil based stews among many other dishes in Ethiopian cuisine

    7 votes

  14. Comment on I gave up meat and gained so much more | A tale of one person's life, culture, and growing up in ~life

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    Highly recommend reading this article in full before commenting

    Highly recommend reading this article in full before commenting

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  18. Comment on The best way to help bees? Don’t become a beekeeper like I did. in ~enviro

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    For a short summary: ...

    For a short summary:

    But what I didn’t know was that by keeping bees I would only be helping one species of bee – the domesticated honeybee, which doesn’t really need saving – and possibly harming others.

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    If you want to help a variety of bees, the best way is to plant flowers that bloom sequentially from early spring to late autumn – even if you only have a window box or pots on a patio. Avoid gardening with chemicals, and leave areas undisturbed where solitary bees and bumblebees can nest. But don’t take up beekeeping

    35 votes

  20. Comment on Consider the lobster in ~food

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    If you want to read in a non-pdf format, the article is also archived here:...

    If you want to read in a non-pdf format, the article is also archived here:

    http://www.gourmet.com.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/magazine/2000s/2004/08/consider_the_lobsterd996.html?printable=true

    or

    http://www.gourmet.com.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/magazine/2000s/2004/08/consider_the_lobster.html (though this link still makes you have to go through page by page)

    5 votes