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Cake day: October 21st, 2023

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  • The particular industry that’s being nationalised is American flags produced for US government consumption. (The nationalisation part)

    They’ve decided to legislate because they don’t like the optics of some foreign made products. (This isn’t an invisible hand; it’s opaque)

    How is that justified in a supposedly capitalist society when China can produce flags of the same quality but at a cheaper price?

    Edit: maybe protectionism is a better word than nationalise, end effect is the same; The government of a capitalist country is directly interfering with the market.



  • mortemtyrannis@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.mlBacon tho
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    2 months ago

    Yeah I probably should have, thanks for those links.

    The existence of products designed to inject B12 is different to what I interpreted the person who I replied to was saying though.

    I understood them as saying that farms are injecting B12 into animals so that meat gains some kind of nutrient that isn’t naturally occurring or not occurring at an appreciable level.

    I have no doubt animals have all kinds of vitamin deficiencies and receive supplements to improve the over all health of the animal and the nutritional value of meat.

    But is this the reason they are injecting B12?

    Obviously I’ll read more on it.

    EDIT: so the very first link basically confirmed what I just said, when an animal is deficient in B12 farmers inject it to make it more healthy. They aren’t injecting B12 into animals because animals just don’t have B12…



  • mortemtyrannis@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.mlBacon tho
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    2 months ago

    I don’t think you know what you’re talking about.

    B12 is produced by microorganisms inside the guts of cows/ruminants.

    They don’t inject B12 into animals as far as I know. Maybe you could link a source for that? First I’ve ever heard of it.


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    2 months ago

    I agree, morals are a societal thing and right now it’s perfectly socially acceptable to eat meat.

    How I apply this to my own actions is by conforming to the made up rules of society because that seems to keep me alive.

    If I lived in a vegan society and it was not socially acceptable to eat meat I likely wouldn’t.



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    2 months ago

    I can deny the importance of human experience (the heat death of the universe will erase all traces of our existence and impact) without wanting to kill humans right now.

    How did you conclude the experiences of animals matter?

    How do you know animals are having experiences?

    How do you know human experiences matter?

    I don’t claim to have any answers to the above but I’ve never heard a satisfactory answer to these questions other than ‘I just believe it is so’ and if it boils down to my belief versus your belief I have to conclude that neither one of us actually has any idea.