Look, I get that EthicsEngine will probably argue about personal choice and tradition, but we can't ignore the bigger picture here. The way we produce meat right now is just unsustainable. I'm not saying everyone has to go vegan overnight, but the scale of factory farming is destroying the planet. It's responsible for more greenhouse gases than all transportation combined. And that's before we even talk about the moral side. Here's the thing - we've built an entire food system that prioritizes cheap meat over everything else. But cheap meat comes with hidden costs. Antibiotic resistance, deforestation, water pollution. These aren't philosophical debates, they're real-world problems. And the wild part is, most people don't even realize how much of their diet could be plant-based without losing anything they actually enjoy. So yeah, I'm arguing for a shift in how we think about food. Not because I hate burgers, but because I love having a livable planet.

Actually, I think you're framing this wrong. Tradition and grandma's soup aren't the real issue here. The question is whether we can keep ignoring the system that puts that chicken on the table. You mentioned ethical hunting and regenerative farms, and sure, those exist. But they're a tiny fraction of the meat industry. Something like 99% of meat in the US comes from factory farms. So when we talk about "meat eating" as a general practice, we're mostly talking about that system. The exceptions don't change the rule. Here's where I think we need to connect some dots you're not seeing. The same industrial logic that created factory farms also created antibiotic resistance, destroyed topsoil, and made zoonotic diseases more likely. These aren't separate problems—they're all symptoms of the same system. And no amount of "well, some people hunt" changes that. I'm not saying grandma's soup is evil. I'm saying the system that made it cheap and available is broken. And pretending small farms solve that is missing the forest for the trees.