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• tweeks@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  They wouldn’t kill, or even raise the pig if they didn’t count on the money down the chain. We indirectly but surely pay for pigs to be created / killed, for our consumption.

  It’s fine if you don’t care about that or accept it as your standards, that’s your choice and fair in our current social context. Just realize the economics behind it.

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  • federatingIsTooHard@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    all those people are paid before I even decide whether I’m going to buy bacon.

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    • tweeks@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yes, but they only pay those people if they expect to make a profit by selling the end product to you. You are one of the people who make it worthwhile to set up a chain of payments like that.

      If they do not expect you (or other people) to buy the meat, they won’t pay those people to raise / kill the pigs.

      Whether it’s you this time or someone else doesn’t matter. As long as there is a demand by end consumers they will continue. If no-one buys it they stop, it’s that simple.

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      • federatingIsTooHard@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        If no-one buys it they stop, it’s that simple.

        I’m confident that pigs were slaughtered before the invention of money.

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      • federatingIsTooHard@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        If they do not expect you (or other people) to buy the meat, they won’t pay those people to raise / kill the pigs.

        I’m not responsible for managing other people’s expectations.

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• mellejwz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  And with wat money? Your money and everyone else’s that buys meat. Not that it matters though, I’ll keep eating my meat.

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  • federatingIsTooHard@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    money can’t travel back in time.

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    • mellejwz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      No it doesn’t. But money does allow them to keep going…

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      • federatingIsTooHard@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        they are paid before the bacon enters the store

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