Why Meat is the Best Worst Thing in the World 🍔
Why Hacker News recommends it
Cited in animal-welfare and environmental threads as a short, thought-provoking piece on how humans treat animals.
What it is
A Kurzgesagt animated explainer on meat: why people love it and what it costs animals, the environment and health. It lays out the complicated trade-offs of meat production and consumption.
Recommended by 2 HN commenters across 2 different months, 2018 to 2021.
What Hacker News said
Recommends iN7h33nD · 2018-10 · on “Humanity has wiped out 60% of animals since 1970, major report finds”
Many sources would beg to differ about meat not being a problem. [this video] (Sources: [LINK] ) So even if FAO got it wrong, I just don't see beef not being a problem.
Recommends sillysaurusx · 2021-10 · on “Female African elephants are evolving without tusks due to ivory poaching”
Listen. You're right. There, I gave you validation. But you're not going to change anyone's mind. So what's the point? Remember, the primary purpose of HN is entertainment (intellectual gratification). Internalizing this helped me break the habit of making such arguments "just to be right." I'll throw it back at you: Yes, I just ate two pork steaks. I have two more in the fridge. In fact, I'd personally murder a family of pigs if it was the only way I'd ever be able to eat pork steaks again. They're that delicious, and I am that selfish. Life isn't nice. It's brutal, short, and sprinkled with periods of happiness and ecstasy. It's always been that way, and it'll be that way long after we're
Cites arendtio · 2021-05 · on “The Animal Is Tired”
> ... it is the only animal I have ever treated this way. I wonder if that is actually true. I am thinking about this video and how we humans are treating all the other animals on this planet: [this video] Sure the text is about something different, but at times I do wonder how cruel we are and how little we think about it. I like to imagine seeing some aliens doing to us what we are doing to all the animals.