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coffeesp00ns  ·  3218 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Earthlings documentary - has anyone dared to watch it?

I stopped when it started to compare meat eating people to nazis and racists - So, 3:18. This film is preaching to the choir, and I doubt it would actually spur someone who eats meat to stop doing so. It's also, like most documentaries filmed with a slant (i.e. almost all documentaries), filled with "Hypothetheories" (not my word, but a good one) - untested arguments that affirm the position of the arguer, so they never think to apply even the most rudimentary scrutiny. Michael Moore is someone who is notably guilty of this, and I say that as someone who generally agrees with his point of view regarding gun laws and manufacturing.

Demonizing the people you are trying to reach is a really, really bad way to make positive change in the world.

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I have been reducing my meat intake, but not because I believe that I shouldn't eat meat, but because they cost SO MUCH WATER as a crop. Considering how much meat is raised in California (where, as we know, there is a huge drought that is in many ways worsened by human causes), and the amount of water it takes to raise beef to "slaughter" age, it's just not a continuable practice as we do it. Beef takes 2500 GALLONS of water PER POUND.

I have also stopped eating almonds for similar reasons. Every almond you eat takes 1 gallon of water to grow. Let that shit sink in. one of these takes one of these to produce. THEN think about how many almonds it takes to create 2L of Almond Milk.

This recipe adjusted to create 2L of almond milk uses 425g of almonds, and 2L of water (all the other recipes I checked also seemed to have a similar water : final volume ratio. I guess only so much comes out of the almonds, and you can only squeeze so much out of the wet almond paste). The average almond weighs 1.2g. That means you need approx 354 almonds to make this 2L recipe of almond milk. 2L of almond milk = 354 GALLONS of agricultural water used, plus the 2L needed to make the milk. that is un-fucking-sustainable.

want more, cited information? watch this

Stop trying to sell me, and other meat eaters on the "Animals are people/animals feel feelings" argument which will continually fall on deaf ears, and use the SIGNIFICANTLY MORE IMPORTANT AND IMPACTFUL ARGUMENT that the way we farm is legitimately environmentally unsustainable and needs to be changed.