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Chew on this: How we believe our meat is raised can influence how it tastes

Our beliefs about how farm animals are raised -- whether on 'factory farms' or in more humane conditions -- can shape our meat-eating experience, from how we think it smells and tastes to how much we'd be willing to pay for it. Ref. Source 7g.

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It is true. I believe education is key in order to change the mindset. It is a process and we need to realize it doesn't happen overnight. The mind is very flexible therefore it is imperative that we continue showing people the realities of how farm animals are raised.

If they do not have the compassion to stop eating meat, we can still showing the reality of the diseases that these animals carry due to their living conditions.

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In this world, because of the way things are portrayed, I think the majority of people are incapable of being made aware or empathetic to the point that they can consider that slaughter = beef burger. In their mind, a beef burger is something different to leading a cow to a slaughter house.

This also goes along with the innate superiority most have about themselves that they are somehow superior to other life forms and given the authority by the universe or 'god' to kill other animals by the thousands in order so they can eat. Animals, are not allowed to feel imprisoned, captured, kidnapped, raped or tortured because they are after all just animals.

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Yes, speciesism and this rethoric is used at all levels and by people of all sort of economic and social backgrounds.

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Shark fins and meat contain high levels of neurotoxins linked to Alzheimer's disease

Scientists found high concentrations of toxins linked to neurodegenerative diseases in the fins and muscles of 10 species of sharks. The research team suggests that restricting consumption of sharks can have positive health benefits for consumers and for shark conservation, since several of the sharks analyzed in the study are threatened with extinction due to overfishing. Ref. Source 3c.

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What About Eating Just a Little Meat?

As you can see in my video, Plant-Based Diets and Diabetes, we’ve known for decades that a plant-based diet may be protective against diabetes. Studies going back half a century found that those eating meat one or more days a week had significantly higher rates of diabetes, and the more frequently meat was eaten, the […] Ref. Source 8l.

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The meat paradox

When we eat beef, chicken wings, hot dogs or spaghetti bolognese, we do it in denial. Already by referring to what we eat as "Beef" instead of "Cow", we have created a distance between our food and an animal with abilities to think and feel. Philosophers and animal rights activists have long claimed that we avoid thinking about the animal we eat, and that this reduces the feeling of unease. This mechanism is described by the "disassociation hypothesis". Ref. Source 2c.

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How your diet can influence your environmental impact

The impact of our dietary choices on the global phosphorus footprint shouldn't be neglected, recent research shows. A shift towards a plant-based diet may be an undervalued solution toward decreasing our environmental impact and attaining phosphorus sustainability, suggest researchers. Ref. Source 2r.