Oddbean

yeah, coincidentally I grew up (literally, from 5 to 14 yo) in the virology laboratory of a federal university. my father is one of the most renowned virologists in the world, my mother is a bacteriologist, they were both professors and I used to stay there at their lab studying after classes. what I want to say is: there is nothing science about something irrefutable. I completely understand your position, it is your right to be vegan. just as there are people who need animal protein to survive. of course, the current confinement conditions are cruel, we agree. as well as the confinement of people in big cities. which will only get worse with smart cities. however: if I don't eat a chicken, a fox will eat it. If I don't eat the fox, a lion will eat it. or a snake. plants are also living beings and they also suffer. it is an illusion to think that it is possible to alleviate suffering in the world. the solution, imho, to mitigate this suffering would be urban exodus. the end of human confinement, therefore: the end of animal confinement. what cannot be discussed, contrary to science, is my right to come and go, eat what I want, express my opinions. what is healthy for you may not be healthy for me. gluten, for example. furthermore, I am 83% semitic (33% Jewish, 50% Lebanese). I take the Nuremberg Treaty very seriously and I can clearly say that what has happened in the last three years has been the most terrible crime against humanity since the Holocaust. I forgot to put quotes around “vaxxed”. I am vaccinated, I have had all the necessary vaccines since I was born. including two doses of coronavac. but that shitty Pfizer genetic experiment? which, by the way, is experimental until 2025? no, thanks. you talk about thinking for yourself, but you seem to defend the same thing that the owners of the world, those fkn Nazis, tell us to do. five of my friends have already died after Pfizer. four of my relatives, including my father, are in very serious health conditions after pfizer. my father will have to open his chest in January because, after immunosuppression, zoster, Bell's palsy and myocarditis, his aorta is completely compromised, in addition to a rotten valve. it is what it is. in fact, it is not a question of whether you believe it or not. there are 150 thousand pages that Pfizer itself wanted to hide for 75 years but the courts forced them to become public. it's an experiment imposed by the same mafia that now wants to convince me, contrary to the science of centuries and centuries, that a cow's fart does more harm to the environment than the black smoke that their industries emit. all while riding a jet (blue gasoline) and eating their filet mignon. which they will continue eating, so to speak, while the plebs eat grasshoppers — the ones who survive, of course. if you can't see anything wrong with that, and here again, I'm not judging your choice to be vegan, I don't know what else to say ¯\_(ツ)_/¯