art-and-veganism:http://vegnews.com/articles/page.do?catId=8&pageId=5096Are you people fucking s
art-and-veganism:http://vegnews.com/articles/page.do?catId=8&pageId=5096Are you people fucking serious? I don’t agree with how the dairy industry operates, but jesus, reveling in people losing their manner of making a living? And do you really think that this in any real way means decreases in animal exploitation via dairy industry? My guess is that demand will be only marginally affected, and where it is, it will only be the result of poor people being unable to buy dairy products, or other dairy-based foods, for their children. Also, when feed prices go back down, which they will after the effects of the drought etc pass over (I think we all know there isn’t gonna be any real long-term feed shortage here; the US produces a preosterous amount of food used artificially as feed), the supply will equalize; the only difference will be that smaller farms will have been forced out in favor of bigger conglomerates and mega-farms, which tend to be more industrialized and more exploitative. Or farmers will, in desperation to maintain their livelihoods (and often, their land, which carries a lot more personal and emotional weight than most non-farmers understand), resort to more exploitative or harmful means.This post is the sort of simplistic bullshit that gets passed around on Tumblr in the guise of discourse. Examine these issues seriously, look past self-congragulatory idelogical panderings, and please don't pass around this sort of simplistic crap. -- source link