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[-] wrenchmonkey 93 points 11 months ago

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

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 36 points 11 months ago

heh heh more water bugs for me

[-] Irelephant@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months ago

I got a bit concerned there.

[-] TotallynotJessica@lemmy.world 67 points 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months ago

Pretty sure that's what Jeffery Dahmer said too

[-] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

And it was just as true then

[-] boo_ 32 points 11 months ago

Signs like this make me sad

[-] Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 11 months ago

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

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 25 points 11 months ago

I believe you, facts unchecked

[-] MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 27 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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

[-] konomikitten 21 points 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months ago

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

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

Can I get an amen

[-] Midnight@slrpnk.net 2 points 11 months ago
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