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Cake day: October 21st, 2023

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  • The particular industry that’s being nationalised is American flags produced for US government consumption. (The nationalisation part)

    They’ve decided to legislate because they don’t like the optics of some foreign made products. (This isn’t an invisible hand; it’s opaque)

    How is that justified in a supposedly capitalist society when China can produce flags of the same quality but at a cheaper price?

    Edit: maybe protectionism is a better word than nationalise, end effect is the same; The government of a capitalist country is directly interfering with the market.



  • mortemtyrannis@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.mlBacon tho
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    3 months ago

    Yeah I probably should have, thanks for those links.

    The existence of products designed to inject B12 is different to what I interpreted the person who I replied to was saying though.

    I understood them as saying that farms are injecting B12 into animals so that meat gains some kind of nutrient that isn’t naturally occurring or not occurring at an appreciable level.

    I have no doubt animals have all kinds of vitamin deficiencies and receive supplements to improve the over all health of the animal and the nutritional value of meat.

    But is this the reason they are injecting B12?

    Obviously I’ll read more on it.

    EDIT: so the very first link basically confirmed what I just said, when an animal is deficient in B12 farmers inject it to make it more healthy. They aren’t injecting B12 into animals because animals just don’t have B12…



  • mortemtyrannis@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.mlBacon tho
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    3 months ago

    Yeah what you’re describing is basically humans make morals.

    The problem you should have with this is that currently society is fine with eating animal products.

    Many societies were successful because they ate meat.

    How do you reconcile a situation where you believe humans are the source of morals but you disagree with a particular moral created by humans I.e. that it’s ok to eat meat?


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    3 months ago

    I don’t think you know what you’re talking about.

    B12 is produced by microorganisms inside the guts of cows/ruminants.

    They don’t inject B12 into animals as far as I know. Maybe you could link a source for that? First I’ve ever heard of it.


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    3 months ago

    Vegans. Vegans are claiming there are moral facts when they say that I am wrong for consuming animal products.

    Although I’ve had discussions with vegans who claim they aren’t moral realists, I can’t recall a satisfactory argument for a moral anti-realist vegan position.

    If you’d like to offer one, please do.