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If You Eat Meat You Should Know This

Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell · 6.3M views · 2025-02-25 · 15:30

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A Kurzgesagt video on the conditions in which most farm animals are raised. It argues that cruelty is for cheaper rather than better meat, and that a small price increase per meal could avoid most of the suffering.

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Recommended as a clear, evidence-backed introduction to the economics of animal welfare in meat and egg production.

Recommended by 3 HN people across 2 months · HN mentions 2025–2026

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Environment, agriculture & food systemsAnimals & natureNutrition & diet science
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stared · 2025-03 · Strong recommendation

Also, I highly recommend this Kurzgesagt video on how paying just a bit more for meat or eggs drastically improves animals' living conditions: [VIDEO] Additionally, while (pun intended) I am not religious about this, I try to avoid eating pork - as pigs are among the smartest animals humans eat (with intelligence comparable to dogs). For a similar reason, I avoid eating octopuses as well. Also, as a rule of thumb, "less meat is nearly always better than sustainable meat, to reduce your carbon footprint", [LINK] .

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stavros · 2025-05 · Recommendation

Could we not just... not confine the pigs in spaces about as big as their bodies? Kurzgesagt had a very interesting video[0] about the fact that it wasn't really that much more expensive to make sure we ate torture-free meat. [0] [VIDEO]

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manquer · 2025-03 · Recommendation

And all of those numbers pale in comparison in how we cruelly we treat birds used in the food supply chain (eggs, chicken etc). The recent kurzsesagt video is a great intro to the topic ( [VIDEO] )

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