r/Anticonsumption • u/usernames-are-tricky • Sep 07 '26

Satire The Way Things Are Going

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For the screen readers it says: "FDA Advises Meat is Only for Animal Cruelty Purposes, Not Consumption"

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u/LadenWithSorrow Sep 07 '26

More people need to know the impact of animal products on the environment.

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u/lovelysardines Sep 07 '26

Animal agriculture has spent a lot of money on hiding these facts, but i honestly feel like even if people knew most wouldn’t care or have the will to change

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u/SomeDumbGamer Sep 07 '26

Honestly ending the subsidies would do a huge amount to reduce how much we consume.

Seitan is real tasty and can be made into tons of stuff. It would not be hard for people to adopt it and soy as their main proteins with how many ways we can enrich foods these days. Meat would simply become a luxury like it always has been throughout human history. Something to be enjoyed on weekends and special occasions.

We could even breed cold hardy almonds that could be grown all over the continent. There are solutions if people actually want to apply them.

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u/lovelysardines Sep 07 '26

For sure, but at this point I’m banking more on innovation in the industry (i.e lab meat and precision fermentation) than relying on government and the general public.

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u/Badtacocatdab Sep 07 '26

Be the change you want to see.