I’m still not sure why there is vegetarian Spam, but…

  • @MissJinx@lemmy.world
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    -810 days ago

    So eating meet is bad but eating palm oil is ok? You guys know palm oil is destroying the orangutans right?

    • Ephera
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      1110 days ago

      Just because a company has created a product, doesn’t mean that anyone has made a moral judgement. Even if some vegetarians decide to eat this, it still doesn’t mean that all vegetarians agree.

    • @ravhall
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      910 days ago

      The things you are doing are destroying something somewhere.

      • @Wiz@midwest.social
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        29 days ago

        Right. Try to buy clothing that doesn’t have slavery somewhere in the supply chain. It’s impossible. Same with chocolate.

        • @ravhall
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          19 days ago

          I roll around in locally sourced mud to cover my shame.

      • @delirious_owl
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        9 days ago

        I killed some grass to dig a whole to plant a tree.

        We can quantify the harm against the benefit in tons of carbon equivalent added or removed from the air and calculate the net effect.

        Growing vegetarian food is magnitudes less harmful then raising animals for food in almost every ecosystem and species

        • @ravhall
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          19 days ago

          Wow a whole hole? You monster.

          Oversimplifying a complicated situation is a great way to show you know nothing about complicated situations.

    • @Floey@lemm.ee
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      610 days ago

      I wouldn’t advocate for someone eating palm oil simply for their own personal health. However if you want to talk about the environment way more land is cleared for livestock than oil palm, even if you just focus on the locations where oil palm is grown. And palm oil is usually replacing animal fats in cooking due to it’s saturated fat content, stuff like lard and ghee.

    • @delirious_owl
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      9 days ago

      Quantitatively, eating meat is wayyy worse for the environment, yes.