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[-] RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Bring plant-based seems to result in much less overall pain. How so?

About 10% net energy goes between stages of the food ladder, so 90% of the energy in the entire cow's diet was lost as heat. This applies to all animals.

If your goal is overall reduction in pain of others for your own survival, then eating a cow includes that cow's death, plus the much larger amount of greenery it had to eat versus how much greenery you'd eat to comfortably live as the much smaller beings that we are.

Skipping the cow means less overall death by that logic.

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