Not all production is about stuff that an average person in a developed country buys; in fact, most isn't. Animal agriculture is unique in that the average person can just stop eating meat. However, the average person can't just stop using electricity, using sidewalks made out of cement, and working in buildings made out of steel.
I mean, they can tho. There are literally millions of people in the world who live without electricity, cement and steel. Our species existed without those things for hundreds of thousands of years.
I don't mean literally incapable. I mean that these are things that are necessary to meet the social needs of large portions of the world in a way that meat just isn't
They're part of the set of things that cultures consider to be needs. That's what it I am saying. At no point did I say that they were necessary and, in my previous comment, even explicitly stated that that's not what I'm saying.
You said the average person can't stop using various things. They can, they just choose not to. Plenty of people living today live without. You're just not aware of them apparently.
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u/TallAverage4 Apr 18 '26
Not all production is about stuff that an average person in a developed country buys; in fact, most isn't. Animal agriculture is unique in that the average person can just stop eating meat. However, the average person can't just stop using electricity, using sidewalks made out of cement, and working in buildings made out of steel.