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[-] wrenchmonkey 93 points 2 years ago

classic liberal moving, trying to trick us into eating water bugs

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 36 points 2 years ago

heh heh more water bugs for me

[-] Irelephant@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago

I got a bit concerned there.

[-] TotallynotJessica@lemmy.world 67 points 2 years ago

If we lower the demand by not eating them, we can lower the supply taken from the ocean by self interested businesses trying to maximize profits. This ad increases consumer demand by framing consumption as good. It is far better to minimize our consumption of animals if we care about their lives.

[-] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

I agree with the sentiment, but my experience of capitalism is that it would not cause reduction in resource exploitation. The reduced cost because of lower demand would just make it profitable to some other industry instead, who would use up the supply.

In some cases, you can even have the government intervene, like subsidizing production to avoid loss of jobs.

It's really a grab all you can world out there :(

[-] The2b@lemmy.vg 44 points 2 years ago

Pretty sure that's what Jeffery Dahmer said too

[-] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

And it was just as true then

[-] boo_ 32 points 2 years ago

Signs like this make me sad

[-] Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 2 years ago

Isn't this that racist, anti-vegan restaurant?

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 25 points 2 years ago

I believe you, facts unchecked

[-] MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 27 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yeah and whose sin is it, Jimmy? That's right, yours. Stop killing the ocean bugs!

[-] konomikitten 21 points 2 years ago

You can bet the same people who made this sign would lose it if someone told them they didn't eat meat.

Bragging about killing animals to eat is really not the flex you think it is Jimmy.

[-] DumbAceDragon@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 years ago

Doesn't really seem like a brag so much as a tongue-in-cheek way of dismissing it. "Yeah, we kill animals. But.... the food is good?"

Though I certainly see what you mean.

[-] Crashumbc@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

These signs came about in response to PETA running a bunch of crazy billboards in their town.

[-] Zoldyck@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago
[-] Irelephant@lemm.ee 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
[-] RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 38 points 2 years ago

I upvoted the first comment, then realized it was ambiguous and undid it.

I'll go on record to say this advertising of eating living creatures we've purposely killed "so they don't go to waste" is disgusting on multiple levels.

[-] Kowowow@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago

Can I get an amen

[-] Midnight@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 years ago
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