Use of antibiotics in farming ‘endangering human immune system’
People are kinda stupid when it comes to eating meat. The current scale of meat consumption [1] is just mind boggling. Yet even this comment has to be a throwaway because people can&#x27;t handle someone telling them they shouldn&#x27;t eat meat 2x a day.<p>It&#x27;s bad for the environment, it&#x27;s bad for individual health, it&#x27;s bad for collective health (breeding drug resistance and causing pandemics), and all that is before we even talk about the mass scale of needless suffering inflicted on other sentient beings.<p>I don&#x27;t know what the solution is, because as soon as you mention eating less meat people laugh at you or get super defensive. &quot;What, do you care about the animals?&quot; is something I&#x27;ve had people say to me in all seriousness.<p>When I gave it up it felt similar to giving up cigarettes, you get depressed and feel exiled from a joy you used to share with others. But that&#x27;s what addiction does to you and once you get to the other side you wonder how you even participated in such negative behavior in the first place.<p>My fantasy solution is everyone needs to go get a meat consumption license by going to a farm and killing an animal with a knife in their hands every, say, 10 years. If you can&#x27;t do it, then you have no business participating in consuming it. Bonus points if you&#x27;re a regular hunter.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ourworldindata.org&#x2F;grapher&#x2F;animals-slaughtered-for-meat">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ourworldindata.org&#x2F;grapher&#x2F;animals-slaughtered-for-m...</a>