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We need more meat alternatives like dog and cat. There are millions of wild dogs and cats just waiting to be ate.

I have ARFID, if I stop eating meat I will literally starve to death

I mean, I'm down as soon as our alternatives become affordable for low income families.

Wish the alternatives weren't so expensive at restaurants and the such. Honestly don't get it, whenever I cook my self, the meat is always the most expensive part, so why is vegetarian or god forbid vegan food so expensive at restaurants? Stuff like soi meat strips are dirt cheap, not to mention will likely never spoil in storage. I know like one restaurant that actually serves the meatless food cheaper, but that one generally strives to be as mass affordable as possible.

Is there a vegan option that still supports animal cruelty? I don't mind giving up meat but I need to know that all of gods creatures will still suffer from the Dominion of mankind

Based

No thanks, but I'll try and buy less at least

Plants don't have the same receptors as animals. Disease jumping from plants to animals is much more difficult. Even the diseases that you hear about coming from plants are usually from spraying or containmention from animal manuare produced by animal agriculture

We aren't dumping 73% of the worlds antibiotics on plants like we are with animal agriculture

They were the most likely culprit in the H1N1 swine flu epidemic that almost killed a guy I know (he was a pretty healthy 20-something and had to be put on a ventilator and induced coma). The cause of that epidemic was related to literal lakes of untreated pig feces generated by factory farms and likely spread to humans via flies.

The H5N1 strain of bird flu is the big one right now, but it's responsible for a large amount of disease spead

Since 1940, an estimated 50% of zoonotic disease emergence has been associated with agriculture (1–3). This estimate, however, is necessarily conservative because only direct agricultural drivers are considered in the epidemiological literature, i.e., within the farm gat

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The intensification of animal agriculture through confinement and industrialization has directly led to the emergence of viruses including Nipah and H5N1 influenza (“swine flu”) (18) and antibiotic-resistant infectious bacteria including methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli (19, 20).

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.add6681