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Excuse me? Because I like eating delicious beef. How is that "irrational" ? I'll repeat: I like eating steak, and I am willing to pay for it. What's destroying the biosphere is too many humans.

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That isn’t rational - supporting large scale animal agriculture which has been scientifically shown requires more resources and creates more environmental damage than a plant based food systems which are more sustainable.

Why would choose something that creates more damage just because it tastes delicious. Why not choose something else that is delicious but gentler to the environment and doesn’t require animals to suffer?

Why is it ok to enslave, be cruel and kill a cow just for mouth pleasure, when most of us don’t need to eat animals anymore to survive?

If more ppl would be completely or mostly plant based our current population would be more sustainable.

Because I like it. Because most humans like it. We have it in our genes. End of the story.

So because you like the taste of animal flesh it's OK to torture and kill them and in the process also inflict more harm to our environment.

Can you share your sources where it links our taste for animal flesh is linked to our DNA?

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