On the 28th of March 2025, the Dutch city of Nijmegen became the latest city in the Netherlands — and the 37th globally — to officially endorse the Plant Based Treaty, marking a significant step in…
Of course not, and even many objects should, at least in my opinion, be treated with some respect. I mostly agree with what you’ve written here.
To act as though we are above them
In my opinion, it is precisely because we are above them that we (or at least many of us) abhor unnecessary suffering and waste. The wolf however does not care when it slaughters a whole herd of sheep to eat just their livers and leave the rest to rot, neither does it hesitate to kill the zookeeper that has fed it for a decade when they slip up for just a moment.
That is true. But when a wolf kills a buncha sheep just to eat the livers, at the very least other animals in that cycle get to feed from the remains. Scavenger animals now get a whole-ass free meal, the bugs can now pick the bones clean if they want to, and the flies that lay their larvae will make a fine meal for smaller birds.
But with humans, its different how we discard animal waste? At the rate in which we do it, nature just CANNOT keep up. Im unsure if factories already do this, but if we could make it manditory dor ALL FACTORIES to recycle the remains of their meat products, I feel like the world would be a thousand times better.
Example:
Need animal bones for a project or craft? Farmers now have shops that you can buy those from! The same can also be sold to people who wish to study animals but aren’t in a school to do so.
Zoo’s in need of meat for their carrion-loving animals? Factories can ship them ALL the delicious meat scraps they could ever want!
(I cant think of much else besides bones and undesirable meat that we discard so ima leave that example there lmao)
If anything, we can do what every other animal does and create a mutual relationship with buzzards and vultures!! idk what the general consensus is on feeding the buzzards but uhh… idk- they gotta eat too lol.
Of course not, and even many objects should, at least in my opinion, be treated with some respect. I mostly agree with what you’ve written here.
In my opinion, it is precisely because we are above them that we (or at least many of us) abhor unnecessary suffering and waste. The wolf however does not care when it slaughters a whole herd of sheep to eat just their livers and leave the rest to rot, neither does it hesitate to kill the zookeeper that has fed it for a decade when they slip up for just a moment.
That is true. But when a wolf kills a buncha sheep just to eat the livers, at the very least other animals in that cycle get to feed from the remains. Scavenger animals now get a whole-ass free meal, the bugs can now pick the bones clean if they want to, and the flies that lay their larvae will make a fine meal for smaller birds.
But with humans, its different how we discard animal waste? At the rate in which we do it, nature just CANNOT keep up. Im unsure if factories already do this, but if we could make it manditory dor ALL FACTORIES to recycle the remains of their meat products, I feel like the world would be a thousand times better. Example:
Need animal bones for a project or craft? Farmers now have shops that you can buy those from! The same can also be sold to people who wish to study animals but aren’t in a school to do so.
Zoo’s in need of meat for their carrion-loving animals? Factories can ship them ALL the delicious meat scraps they could ever want!
(I cant think of much else besides bones and undesirable meat that we discard so ima leave that example there lmao)
If anything, we can do what every other animal does and create a mutual relationship with buzzards and vultures!! idk what the general consensus is on feeding the buzzards but uhh… idk- they gotta eat too lol.