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      11 months ago

      As an addition Just make sure we are leaving out the slavery sourced goods as well like avacodos and almond milk. Stop eating chocolate. Real Vanilla is completely off limits.

      Cause there’s no point in virtue signalling if your not going all the way.

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          11 months ago

          Sorry pal, I have to say that unless you’re talking about the real thing that you can get in Asia, which is an amazing hot and creamy breakfast drink, soy milk is foul.

          Though almond milk is basically a fraud, mostly water and hardly any almonds. And it tastes like it, so I can see how you rated it below soy milk, even if soy milk is awful.

          If I must settle for fake milk, oat milk is where it’s at. It doesn’t have any weird off flavours, decent caloric content and is decently thick and rich. Probably the most environmentally friendly milk substitute as well because yeah, it’s just oats.

          We take it camping sometimes, as it handles the lack of refrigeration a lot better than the real thing.

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      11 months ago

      Honestly even if we just cut out pork…this animal is as smart as dogs and just as social and loving.

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        11 months ago

        Pigs definitely are and you shouldn’t eat them, but intelligence is a weird way to judge whether a life deserves consideration.

        The only pertinent question is surely if they suffer.

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        11 months ago

        Cows are social and loving, too. And don’t get me started on octopodes!

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          11 months ago

          I’m far from vegetarian but I’ve completely stopped eating octopus. Those things are freaky smart and honestly most people/restaurants can’t cook them well enough to even have a flimsy selfish justification for eating them.

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    11 months ago

    I don’t have time to watch this video but… it seems like a dubious claim.

    Feed on some specific farm carelessly contaminated with plastic? sure.

    Feeding pigs plastic as a cost cutting measure? Non-sensical.

    It doesn’t take a veterinarian to deduce that feeding livestock plastic will harm your profitability.

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      11 months ago

      They’re not specifically feeding them plastic only, he’s showing how any waste food (old potatos, old bread, chips, etc) that comes to be processed does not have the plastic bags removed before going into a grinder to become feed.

      He actually shows how it’s explicitly allowed in his state regulations, likely approved due to the efforts of an agribusiness lobbyist. I suspect that any negative effects to the pigs is not enough to effect the end product, or doesn’t manifest within the timeframe of a viable animal for slaughter.

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        11 months ago

        this got me thinking as well.

        I think the whole garbage feeding law (at least in US, where the video originated) is made to control disease transmission – but not microplastics, which is a relatively new discovery.

        Still up to the consumer to protect themselves while there’s no regulation tackling this.

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      11 months ago

      I also didn’t watch this video here but saw videos earlier where livestock was fed with expired food that supermarkets weren’t able to sell in time. All kinds of products like vegetables, bread, cake, yogurt etc. were delivered to the farmers directly or to intermediate companies. In many cases the food was still in its packaging, e.g. a plastic bag around a loaf of bread. But to keep costs low everything just went into a huge shredder and was then fed to the animals. Including lots of micro (and not so micro) plastics.

      So the cost cutting is not about “explicitly feeding plastics as a cheap filler” but rather “accepting to have plastics in the food in favor of lower sorting costs”.

      In the documentary I watched this was described a common practice all over Europe.