Non-vegan playing devil’s advocate, here; I’ve always hated that argument: Yes the chicken is already dead, but by purchasing the product, you’re paving the way for more chickens to be killed to replace the one(s) you ate. Supply and demand. We need to come up with a better counter-argument.
Personally I’m not ready to stop eating meat, and probably never will be. I’m counting on lab-grown meat to come down in price enough to be produced en mssse within the next 10-15 years, and then I can enjoy all I want, 100% guilt-free. I will be among the first to buy it when it hits the supermarket.
Nah it still makes sense, because the meat you just bought will have to be restocked with more, this resulting in more chicken deaths. If no one bought the meat, there’d be no reason to replace it with more.
That’s what this person is saying. After someone has already made the purchase, it’s better to eat the meat. Because the damage has already been done by the purchase, showing demand for the meat, and causing the meat to be restocked. So once you already have it, (like in the case of this post, where they already had it, and we’re actively cooking it) it’s better to just eat the meat so that it doesn’t go to waste
If it’s already cooking and it’s not done when the cooking stops due to outside conditions, (power outage) it’s going to waste. It’s effectively consumed when cooking starts, not when it goes in your mouth.
But then I’m buying more nuggets to replace the nuggets I didn’t get to eat because they’ve been ruined. It effectively doubles my meat consumption for the meal.
Non-vegan playing devil’s advocate, here; I’ve always hated that argument: Yes the chicken is already dead, but by purchasing the product, you’re paving the way for more chickens to be killed to replace the one(s) you ate. Supply and demand. We need to come up with a better counter-argument.
Personally I’m not ready to stop eating meat, and probably never will be. I’m counting on lab-grown meat to come down in price enough to be produced en mssse within the next 10-15 years, and then I can enjoy all I want, 100% guilt-free. I will be among the first to buy it when it hits the supermarket.
That makes sense when you are in the store and still buying them.
It doesn’t make sense when they are already in the oven being heated and have been paid for some time ago.
Nah it still makes sense, because the meat you just bought will have to be restocked with more, this resulting in more chicken deaths. If no one bought the meat, there’d be no reason to replace it with more.
That’s what this person is saying. After someone has already made the purchase, it’s better to eat the meat. Because the damage has already been done by the purchase, showing demand for the meat, and causing the meat to be restocked. So once you already have it, (like in the case of this post, where they already had it, and we’re actively cooking it) it’s better to just eat the meat so that it doesn’t go to waste
If it’s already cooking and it’s not done when the cooking stops due to outside conditions, (power outage) it’s going to waste. It’s effectively consumed when cooking starts, not when it goes in your mouth.
But then I’m buying more nuggets to replace the nuggets I didn’t get to eat because they’ve been ruined. It effectively doubles my meat consumption for the meal.