Maybe you could eat beef and dairy to hedge your bets nutritionally while minimizing your animal-suffering impact? Of course, your question can also be interesting to discuss in its own right, but to the extent you worry about the issue, this could be a solution.
That’s especially easy to do where I live, we don’t have factory farming here (cows go for “finishing” at a grain feed only at the end of their life, for a short time, too short for serious stomach problems). Their lives kinda seem positive on net.
However, the conservation issues are worse, methane emissions are high, and runoff from farming messes up the streams and lakes, threatening many native fish species. [realizes I’m talking to brian tomasik] Evolution spent billions of years creating the species. I don’t think we’ll ever create anything quite like them. There’s a sacred kind of beauty in them: They were real, they’d be one of the few things we knew that weren’t created by us or our peers. They were created by the thing that created us. We’ll find them very beautiful one day. Losing them wouldn’t be such a tragedy if we could just record the epigenomes and the womb environments, so that we could reconstruct them in a more humane form, later. But I don’t think we’re doing that? (Can the womb environment be figured out from the epigenomes and simulations?)
Maybe you could eat beef and dairy to hedge your bets nutritionally while minimizing your animal-suffering impact? Of course, your question can also be interesting to discuss in its own right, but to the extent you worry about the issue, this could be a solution.
That’s especially easy to do where I live, we don’t have factory farming here (cows go for “finishing” at a grain feed only at the end of their life, for a short time, too short for serious stomach problems). Their lives kinda seem positive on net.
However, the conservation issues are worse, methane emissions are high, and runoff from farming messes up the streams and lakes, threatening many native fish species. [realizes I’m talking to brian tomasik] Evolution spent billions of years creating the species. I don’t think we’ll ever create anything quite like them. There’s a sacred kind of beauty in them: They were real, they’d be one of the few things we knew that weren’t created by us or our peers. They were created by the thing that created us.
We’ll find them very beautiful one day.
Losing them wouldn’t be such a tragedy if we could just record the epigenomes and the womb environments, so that we could reconstruct them in a more humane form, later.
But I don’t think we’re doing that?
(Can the womb environment be figured out from the epigenomes and simulations?)
Bivalves, then?