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  • First, I completely agree with you that it's incredibly easy to let your weight slip. Just wanted to add that I know many overweight people I have gone out to dinner with, or just been around, that consistently make the wrong choice everywhere they go.

    I'm at a restaurant and order something made of say, cucumber lettuce chicken and whole-wheat bread(as someone who is about average weight) The people I'm with order beef patties with mayo on white bread with fries as a side. I just want to shake them and say stop hurting yourself!! But there's not much I can do when every time I give a healthy alternative they'll say yuck, give me the processed food instead.

    So definitely don't be hard on yourself if your weight is slipping, but if you're eating out every day or eating high calorie foods, just try to replace some of those, even with something else unhealthy but less calorie dense.

  • I can't comment on how egg laying affects their mood/daily experience, but it seems laying for healthy hens should only very rarely be painful https://peteducate.com/does-it-hurt-a-chicken-to-lay-an-egg/

    I think I'd agree we want to reverse the selective breeding. However I've seen backyard chickens that seem really happy, curious, and have a huge area to walk around in with a big variety of food, and in return lay an egg every 24-36 hours. It's hard for me to say raising chickens like that is immoral, but I could be wrong.

  • I wonder about having backyard chickens then, that otherwise live happy stress free lives. That seems like a trade off of their "work" for being safe well fed and taken care of, but I haven't thought into it super deeply. I think if I were that chicken I'd rather be alive than not exist.

  • We put more animals through factory farms per year than any other animal kills, and it's not even close. https://animalclock.org/

    humans have the ability to reason and empathize, and do not need to kill to survive, all things a lion or any other predator animal cannot do. Humans generally agree might makes right is not acceptable for a society, except when it comes to our food apparently.

  • While I get this, maybe it's better to look at it as the individual animals you're saving. Red cross members know there are hundreds of millions of lives they can't save, and the world should change to where these people don't need the help, but they're still saving the life of someone here and now. A cow is maybe "less" than a human life, but you're saving them a lifetime of suffering.

    Even just reducing meat to where it's not a huge annoyance can still make a big difference.

  • so slightly irrelevant since I assume you're speaking generally but, have used the same clothes/computer/phone, for ~10 years, not to say I'm living with the bare necessities but I do try to limit those as well.

    I do agree it's impossible to be 100% moral in modern society and do harm to no one, but paying $200 every 10 years to a company that far down the line has poor labor practices (without my money these people have no job so even this is debatable), when I essentially can not participate in society without doing these smaller harms, seems to me leagues different.

    With meat, you are as closely as possible saying with your wallet "please raise and kill more of this animal as your company does now" while knowing many suppliers either nearly torture the animals they raise, or raise/kill them in really inhumane ways. If you're still eating meat, you are the direct cause of several animals living that terrible life. I can also exist in society with an inconvenience of not eating meat, whereas I can't without shoes, a phone, a computer for work, etc

  • so if I'm a ceo trying to not waste money, and my margin for acceptable wasted product is 90% sold 10% unsold, even one person worth of lost sales of meat has a definite possibility of making me buy less next shipment. Even if they're buying it by the giant crate, if I'm buying meat crates according to a formula, your 1 purchase could be the one that sways me for or against buying another. Do that over the course of 10 years and this turns from a possibility to essentially guaranteed.

  • so just as a thought experiment, if you saw what was essentially a modern day holocaust, how would you go about convincing people that willfully(or through lack of knowledge) ignore it? Would you just say "oh I'd better not cause a scene, that would be really egotistical of me "? also cut change != cut off, there are vegan options for a huge range of palates, we are just so used to the current meat diet that anything else feels alien, despite other societies doing fine with these diets.

  • Does your impact have to be massive for you to act? me not throwing trash out the window isn't going to stop millions of others from doing it, but my impact is still there (ex:go vegan for a year, and your local grocery/fast food place/etc sees a reduction in meat sales and orders 0.001% less for their next shipment)

  • While this is true, also consider the reason those trucks are necessary. If no one took a spork from taco bell, and used dishes at home instead, that truck would never need to come. Do this with many other non-essential items, and the impact starts becoming measurable. Using electric trucks for the essentials could eliminate that pollution entirely, though that last step is policy, not individual.

  • I'd say just mathematically scorch is gonna be better if you're actually translating that damage into something, like dragons or plates or pushing people out of lane. Try looking at peoples HP at important moments and thinking "would them being 80hp lower make a big difference here."

    I think anywhere below plat elo though, gathering will ALWAYS be better, since the first 15-20 minutes don't matter as much (unless you're hyper snowballing ~10% of games)