• commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    11 months ago

    The bottom line is that the dairy industry causes harm and suffering to animals, including supplementing connected industries like veal and beef,

    ok…

    which many people justify as a way to minimise waste of necessary byproducts of the dairy industry

    conserving resources is good…

    while ignoring or overlooking the fact that the dairy industry itself is unnecessary.

    I don’t see why that matters. we do have a dairy industry. conserving resources within it is just smart.

    • SeahorseTreble@lemmy.worldOP
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      11 months ago

      Conserving resources within the dairy industry, such as consuming the surpluss calves and cattle that are killed, might make sense from an economic standpoint.

      But the dairy industry itself isn’t necessary. It matters because instead of supporting it by buying the veal and beef byproducts derived from it, we could simply boycott the whole industry entirely, which would eliminate all of the harms involved in it.

      You seem to have made the exact fallacy that I’m describing in my post, as seen in the title.