Imagine: if all the 70+ billion animals that get slaughtered each year for meat could tweet for someone to help them, we’d drown in their cries.
Also imagine, a superior alien race that farms all humans for meat because they love eating it.
Disgusting, right?
That’s exactly how we treat animals.
Meat-alternatives are the biggest ROI projects we have got in terms of alleviating suffering.
Expecting a standard set of replies from people who just can’t imagine giving up on meat.
They fall into these categories:
- What about plants
- But wild animals kill each other
- Meat is cheap, high-nutrition food
- But butter-chicken is extremely tasty
- Meat eating is manly
Not going to rely to them as counter-points to all of them to easy to find and they usually argue in bad faith (I’ve tried discussing with them before).
If you want to debate in favour of slaughtering animals for meat in good faith, I’m all up.
Another reason to ditch animal farming.
Almost all infectious diseases have zoonotic origin as humans have no immunity to exotic pathogens.
Swine flu, bird flu, Ebola, COVID - all animal origin.
Plants don’t give us infectious diseases because we’re biologically far apart.
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If COVID infection rate is 0.04% after first dose of vaccination, getting the first shot to everyone in highly dense areas may be the best strategy for India right now.
We need a tsunami of vaccinations right now.
Why wait until 1st May? Is our vaccine supply getting 100% used?
Even if you doubt the data, there’s no doubt that:
- Even one dose is much better (at preventing death and severe hospitalisation) than no doses
- There’s no cure for COVID, so vaccination is the best strategy for preventing total number of future deaths
Sadly the vaccination numbers are falling, at a time when they need to rise exponentially.
Depression is terrible, and severe forms of it could make people suicidal.
New research is finding that psychedelics are much more effective than anti-depressants at treating depression.
1/ For example, this randomised trial study that just came out found 70% of patients reduced depression symptoms within a week (as compared to anti depressant with 33% efficacy)