In some respects. The FDP would never subsidize green technologies on such a scale though.

“We have to be open to all technologies, so strategically advancing those that make sense and aren’t scams would lead to an evil planned economy!”

I’d like to buy a Fairphone, but the missing IP68 rating is concerning to me. I really don’t want to have to worry about my phone dying if I get into a rainstorm for example, especially while traveling.

learn your labels to avoid cruel producers, if you have the luxury buy from local farms

I feel like this is insanely hard to do this right, since the treatment of the animals is never made transparent. Even if you only buy animal products from local farms, how do you know the actual living conditions? You’d have to visit the farms and the slaughterhouses yourself, and even then you wouldn’t see all the stuff, like how the workers really treat the animals day to day and which procedures the animals go through, how they are separated after birth and so on. To get a fair, unbiased impression, you’d need to work there for some time, for every farm you buy from.

For food from normal restaurants (which aren’t $100 per meal), the employees have no idea where the animal products come from, and if they have to compete with the price of other restaurants, well, it’s all factory farmed anyway or they would already be out of business.

Just buying the plant-based burger or whatever is just so much more practical than trying to be a conscientious meat eater in a world where you’re not supposed to ask any questions about how products were made. If you try to get some real transparency, the odds are stacked against you, and the industry will make sure to keep it that way.

As with any group, the most unreasonable ones who have a desire to shit on people are often the loudest and get disproportionately more attention.

That’s the same dynamic why conservatives think feminists hate men, for example. It doesn’t mean it’s representative.

Most vegans have in fact been meat eaters for most of their life and didn’t went vegan overnight either. Many also recognize that going 100% vegan can seem very daunting to people who have never tried being vegetarian for a week or something like that yet. It certainly seemed daunting to me at first.

I now wish we could stop all factory farming today, but that’s not how human psychology works, and it’s not how societal change works. Some vegans aren’t emotionally able to accept that, but most probably will at some point.

The main struggle for the accessibility of vegan food is having more plant-based options in supermarkets and restaurants, and more people who are trying/choosing the alternatives (when they are available and decent) would go a long way to make it easier for all. So I’d always encourage people to take steps to improve the situation.

The “all or nothing” mentality just creates unnecessary barriers and some people really need to recognize that. People have to be able to take positive steps without feeling the need to make a big commitment.

I know, but that’s the only way regular people get meat nowadays.

It’s totally natural for humans to put those that we consider inferior into horrible death camps.

Der Titel ist etwas ungüstig. Das ist ein Bericht darüber mit welcher Strategie die AfD Arbeiter überzeugt und wie deren Wähler mit Gewerkschaften interagieren. Sehr hörenswert finde ich.

Ich hatte den Eindruck, dass Steinmeier als er meinte dass man die Sprache der Rechtsextremen nicht übernehmen soll, vermutlich auch Politiker gemeint hat. Diplomatisch bzw. vage bleiben muss er so oder so. Aber vielleicht betrachte ich das auch zu wohlwollend.

The animal rights logic is usually the following: Animals have the capacity to suffer and a will to live, therefore they deserve a right to not be harmed or killed needlessly.

No sane person would argue that they should have the right to vote or anything like that, just the basic ones. I feel like there’s a lot of confusion about this.

E.g. kicking a dog on a whim violates their right to not be harmed and should be illegal in an ideal world.

It seems like you share the ethical concern. Why wouldn’t you be in favor of granting them these two basic rights then?

Maybe your problem is with extending this logic to something like killing a pig for taste pleasure compared to kicking a dog? I’d argue that if you’re against the latter, there’s no ethical reason to defend or even support the former. Something being culturally ingrained or pleasurable doesn’t automatically justify it after all.

For the first situation, 3 h a day is a lot of time. I don’t think we should expect people to make such big sacrifices every day, at least if they work full time. People need leisure to stay healthy too. If it was 1h or 1:30h it would be reasonable to take the bike imo, but at 3h I’d cut them some slack. There are simply much more effective climate measures that we as a society should implement. They shouldn’t buy a new gas car if they can avoid it though.

You want it so much, in fact, that not stopping there to buy a hamburger creates twice as much negative utility for you as biking instead of driving

But it also causes a lot more animal cruelty than the miniscule climate impact of one commute.

You can do a direct analogy with environmentalism. By driving a car, you’ll do some harm to people and the environment. But if you’d knowingly chose to buy products that were produced in literal slavery conditions, and directly funded slavery that way, this would be a whole different ethical issue.

In reality, even if a person is addicted to burgers like a drug addict, they could easily buy plant-based burger patties that taste really similar to regular ones and make their own burgers. Vegan cheese isnt quite the same yet, but a little difference in taste certainly doesn’t justify torturing animals on factory farms.

In most countries, McDonalds even has plant based burgers available afaik.