“Looks at fields where migrants usually pick vegetables”
I got bad news for ya bud.
Time to tap into the seed vault? Terrible flavor, amazing roughage.
The article discusses that. H-2A visa programme can be used for seasonal work.
The entire animal husbandry industry all the way through slaughter, requires workers that show up daily.
I suppose it might be possible to have seasonal slaughters but milk and all the subsequent dairy products are done.
And any vegans that think is for the best, keep in mind it involves a genocidal like slaughter of all those dairy animals occurring within hours of workers being unavailable.
Feel free to show you really give a shit about these animals by getting ready to purchase them from these farmers and care for them for the remainder of the animal’s life.
And any vegans that think is for the best, keep in mind it involves a genocidal like slaughter of all those dairy animals occurring within hours of workers being unavailable.
Ok, but they’d probably it would be only once, instead of the current unending cycle.
Dairy cows are slaughtered for meat once they’re no longer productive enough anyway, aren’t they? Either way they’re going to die.
https://thehumaneleague.org.uk/article/how-long-do-cows-live-naturally-vs-on-factory-farms
You didn’t think they got to retire in a nice meadow, did you?
cows don’t “naturally” live to 20+ years. they do that artificially, given proper veterinary care, healthy food and water, and protection from predators and the environment.
There’s a massive difference between being killed for meat and being killed because it’s too expensive to maintain them. We’re talking thousands of tons of meat going to waste, not a dairy cow being killed at the end of its productivity.
😂😂😂
Vegans get off on acting like they’re better than everyone else for eating ‘clean’ whilst willfully ignoring the damage that’s done to our planet by shoving pesticides and fungicides into the soil and waterways.
While I admire the attempt, no there’s simply no way a vegan will ever do something like this. In the mind of every vegan, they’ve already done their part by eating only plants.
Yes. Veganism has all sorts of issues. Their way leads to a world with less biodiversity not more. It is also propped up by the industrial times we live in.
They like to point out that some areas have been vegan for centuries while ignoring the mortality rates those areas had during those times. Famines were common.
There entire ideology is based on a biased examination of the data and their need to silence anyone that questions their dietary choices is a huge red flag. They and they alone are allowed to question others choices but what this t do isn’t question, because they already think they have the answers so instead their ridicule.
Their way leads to a world with less biodiversity not more.
can you support this?
Yes.
A wide range of animals only exist because we include them in our food chain. Saving a few samples still reduces the bio diversity.
A wide range of plants only exist because they are useful for feeding the animals we include in our food chain. There is no reason to grow feed corn if there are no animals to feed it to.
There is likely second order affects where the biom feeds of these two things and would disappear. This is a bit more hand wavy but we already have evidence that monocrops and pesticides are doing this.
given habitat destruction, which is attributed (fairly or no) to agriculture, i was hoping you had some data on the number of species that would exist in a vegan world vs nonvegan.
shrugs They’re the ones that voted for this shit. It’s just a shame the rest of us have to live with the outcome.
It’s never a shame when a dairy closes.
Does anyone else think it’s a little weird to drink breast milk. It being from a different species does not make it less weird!
It’s almost like attempting to enforce policy without nuance can have drastic consequences.
Who could have guessed! Maybe it should be illegal to vote without a Bachelors…
making it harder to vote is actually the problem tbh
I know plenty of people with degrees who are dunber than a bag of hammers and less than half as useful.
Our world is complex and many people are all too eager to remind us that they really are just animals shoved into t-shirts and pants. Unfortunately, the solution will never be to take anyone’s voice away so we’re going to be stuck in some shitty places like this until we can figure out to make this shit work better.
Universal suffrage would be under direct attack if such a thing were imposed. However, it would make more sense for people who wish to run for public office to have such a condition, with allowance made for relevant life experience in lieu of a formal education.
Hans Breitenmoser, a farmer, says the ‘dairy industry will die a horrible death’ if undocumented workers are deported.
When Brexit came into force and “migrant” (i.e. low paid Eastern European) fruit pickers were kept out of the UK, farmers here struggled https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/farmers-brexit-kent-government-brits-b940026.html
If apparently we can’t afford to produce food without exploiting low paid immigrants then either the people running the farms are money grubbing dickheads or there’s something very wrong with how society functions.
Here in US i think it’s more complicated than that. The farming is very large scale, most of the work is done by machinery. Some of the crops though need to be picked by hand. There is a migratory (within the US) workforce that moves to where the seasonal work is. Farm hands that sleep in a loft in the barn and see the crop through from seed to harvest isn’t a thing. I learned this because I had friends who did this. Live in a tent, get paid for what you produce, move on to the next crop. No federal taxes, low cost of living. Apples in Washington, oranges in Florida, blueberries in Maine, clean fish in Alaska.I even met people who worked on crab boats and couldn’t understand why it was so dangerous until I saw the TV show Dangerous Catch. Americans would rather work at Walmart. Immigrants will happily do it then head back home where the money they earned will go farther. NAFTA stole a lot of the agricultural work from Mexico, they’re doing the same work just further from home. I don’t know for sure but they may not be getting paid any less than an American that does the same job.
Caveat: I garnered this information a long time ago and may be outdated. IMO US immigration laws need to be updated and enforced. Political polarization is making this impossible. Being honest about the situation is the first step.
Other caveat: not an expert at anything
The farming is very large scale, most of the work is done by machinery.
Most of the farming is mechanised here too AFAIK (not an expert) but like you say there are a few jobs that haven’t been fully mechanised yet, including fruit picking.
Wow, Trump is woke?!?!? First making every US american legally a woman and now turning people vegan? Smh my head
Now the agribusiness giants can buy those farms up cheap.
What an amazing and totally unintended coincidence
Yep that story about you will own nothing and be happy is a reference to our futures being modern serfs outside of the property class.
Lol, Trump accidentally causing the a massive increase in veganism in the US is hilarious
Good thing America stored all that cheese.
We already took care of the cheese, it’s not there to fall back on anymore! The cheese caves are over!!! We’re living on borrowed cheese!!!
And salt too.
I don’t expect a dairy farmer to know better, but of course he means “plant-based”, not “vegan”. “Plant-based” is a functional description, while “vegan” is a set of moral values and their ethical consequences. The dairy farmer isn’t saying that everyone has to renounce animal abuse. They are simply saying that it won’t be economical to commit atrocity for money any longer.
I don’t expect a dairy farmer to know better, but of course he means “plant-based”, not “vegan”. “Plant-based” is a functional description, while “vegan” is a set of moral values and their ethical consequences.
Since the farmer is talking about the outcome as opposed to the justification is there anything functionally different between “plant-based” and “vegan” here? As in would the diet of the vegan and someone eating only “plant based” look different in any way?
Jerkface is making a remark on the character of the farmer. A harsh one based on his profession, more-so than the outcome of the meaning of his words… dairy is not as immaculate as most were led to believe.
Neither of them really describe “a” diet. I don’t consume alcohol. Is that a diet? You don’t consume antifreeze, even though it tastes really really good. Is that a diet? “Not consuming animal products” is not a diet.
“Plant-based” is a characteristic of an infinite number of diets or other practices; those that exclude animal products. “Vegan” is a characteristic of a person; one that conducts themselves according to a specific moral perspective on interactions with animals. A diet is vegan iff (ie if and only if) there was a moral question in its practice. It describes the justification, and using it to talk about only the outcome is exactly what I am saying is incorrect.
Neither of them really describe “a” diet.
A diet is the term used to encompass what someone consumes for food or drink. Its a basic term with a clear definition.
“Plant-based” is a characteristic of an infinite number …
Okay, I got it now. You’re not really making any salient point. You’re just splitting hairs with wordplay and being intentionally obtuse and apparently being unable to answer a straight question. You’re coming off as incredibly smug and arrogant.
I answered in the most straightforward way I could think to. I’m sorry.
Veganism is a moral philosophy that rejects the exploitation and commodification of animals.
Plant-based diets may also be vegan or vegetarian but do not have to be as one may choose to eat plant-based due to personal health concerns and not animal rights ones for example.
With your provided definition of “plant-based” @jerkface@lemmy.ca 's response would be wrong then. There’s no room in the farmer’s assertion for the “plant based” or vegetarian definition, but only vegan. The farmer’s statement isn’t saying “we’ll have to reduce our consumption of animal products” but instead “we will have to reduce our consumption of animal products to zero”.
I feel you’re intentionally trying to misunderstand the argument.
Veganism is specifically about the moral implications of commodifying animals - plant-based is about consuming plants - so while all vegans are plant-based not all plant-based folk are vegan.
In really simple terms:
Imagine two kids who don’t eat ice cream:
The first kid doesn’t eat ice cream because they really love cows and don’t want them to be used to make milk for ice cream. This kid also won’t wear leather shoes or go to the zoo because they don’t want any animals to be used by people. This is like being vegan.
The second kid doesn’t eat ice cream just because the ice cream store closed down and there’s no ice cream to buy anymore. This kid would still eat ice cream if they could get it, and they’re fine wearing leather shoes or going to the zoo. This is like being plant-based because of economics (what the farmer was talking about).
So even though both kids end up not eating ice cream, they’re doing it for very different reasons. That’s what @jerkface@lemmy.ca was saying - the farmer was talking about a future where people would eat plant-based food because animal products would be too expensive to make, not because everyone suddenly decided to become vegan and care about animals.
I feel you’re intentionally trying to misunderstand the argument.
I feel like you and jerkface are answering a question I didn’t ask injecting your own morality, and refuse to answer the question I did ask. You can go back up to my post 3 or 4 earlier in the thread. I said the following:
“Since the farmer is talking about the outcome as opposed to the justification is there anything functionally different between ‘plant-based’ and “vegan” here? As in would the diet of the vegan and someone eating only ‘plant based’ look different in any way?”
Inside this discussion I don’t care why the outcome is the way it is. The farmer doesn’t care for this statement in his interview.
In really simple terms: Imagine two kids who don’t eat ice cream
I didn’t ask for any of that. I asked for this:
So even though both kids end up not eating ice cream,
Thank you. That was my original point with my original question with my first post to this thread.
they’re doing it for very different reasons.
I don’t care about the reasons why. The farmer doesn’t care why (for his statement). Neither of us are saying people are making a political or or moral decision. The farmer is saying that the lack of labor will force the outcome to appear as the same result of a vegan diet.
That’s all. All the extra vegan politics/philosophy/morality is irrelevant to this thread.
Y’all should be more honest with yourselves and admit that veganism is a religion. Your god is cattle, like you.
You could think of it in similar ways. Religion provides morality basically by fiat. Veganism provides morality based in our belief that the experiences of animals are real and matter. I think that is an important distinction, but you may disagree, and it doesn’t do anyone any harm if you do.
I think the behaviors are the same, so it doesn’t really matter. If you would drop the evangelism you would both be far more tolerable.
It’s about time!
We’ll have to go vegan
Yeah, right, like you’re going to find someone to pick vegetables…
Nobody ever fucking asks them who they voted for and why.
Maybe don’t vote for an Orange Turd next time because I know you farmers did.
I’m torn on this one. I want immigrants to be able to come to the US, but I don’t want them exploited in anyway. If these workers are deported it would shine a light on the industries that exploit them very quickly. It would be at the expense of the current workers. I wonder what they’re currently making pay wise.
Nobody ever told me there’d be unintended consequences to my actions /s
