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Cake day: November 25th, 2023
  • swim@slrpnk.nettoscience@lemmy.world•Plants Really Do 'Scream'. We've Simply Never Heard Them Until Now
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    4 days ago

    Accept that you’re misinformed or deliberately misleading. There are no other options, sorry. “Family farms” are simply operators of big agriculture’s bidding, the latter having complete regulatory and market capture.

    “Only four corporations—ADM, Bunge, Cargill and Dreyfus—control more than 75 percent of the global grain trade. They overwhelmingly push commodity crops like corn and soy on local farmers at the expense of native crops.”

    “the vast majority of cows in the United States live on factory farms. Factory farms depend on cheap and unsustainable animal feed, such as corn and soy, to maximize profits at the expense of animal welfare.”

    “Factory farms now account for 72 percent of poultry production, 43 percent of egg production, and 55 percent of pork production worldwide.”

  • swim@slrpnk.nettoMildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•Ephebophiles are not immoralEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Well, an assumed connection between legality and morality is perhaps part of the disconnect.

    Having sex with 16 and 17 year olds is not morally wrong *simply because they are legally considered minors and you an adult.

    Having sex with 16 and 17 year olds is considered morally wrong, by some, because the state of their mental maturity is often far below that of an adult even 5 years older. Consider the biological “growth” of the human brain; having not fully developed, their behavioral maturity follows suit. This means their ability to reason, their ability to act in their own best interest, is less than your own. At a certain level of disparity, this imbalance is usually considered “taking advantage” of someone. Asking them to do things they have less an ability to understand than yourself starts to look a lot like coercion.

    *ETA