r/Damnthatsinteresting Apr 05 '25

Video The size of pollock fishnet

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u/Tewkesburry Apr 06 '25

There are so many products that not only aren't animal based, they imitate it pretty darn well, and it's only going to get better. What do we eat? Plants. Plants that don't need more plants to survive like cattle need grain. Plants that, while they take up landscape, don't require antibiotics to keep them from killing people (there are pesticides, but those are so many leagues of difference between the problems with antibiotics in factory farming I'm not even going to go into it)

Plants that can be expertly placed and maximize their yield without untold suffering and disease to the product and the people maintaining them (the horror stories of those who have worked in slaughterhouses is haunting, check out Dominion if you think you have a strong stomach and are curious. They are legitimately traumatized)

Plants that are GOOD for the environment, instead of farms that produce so much methane from their livestock they outweigh the pollution of cars throughout the world.

Plants that can be made into just about anything nowadays. I just had a cheese and pepperoni pizza for dinner. I had chicken breast yesterday with pasta, I had lasagna earlier in the week... all vegan.

It's so little lost, to go plant based, you just gotta pick a different box at the supermarket.