Comment by bell-cot
3 days ago
Based on the history of the past 1-ish century, I trust Big Meat & Dairy to have less capability for and competence at evil than Big Sugar. Because otherwise we'd have been hearing far more "Fat is Fine, Carbs are Crap" messages.
> I trust Big Meat & Dairy to have less capability for and competence at evil
Why? You've never heard of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ag-gag?
Well, there are essential amino acids and essential fatty acids, but no essential carbs.
Well, there's the whole atkins and keto fads...
And Atkins really started picking up in the 90s which was
https://web.archive.org/web/20120629041358/http://www.ers.us...
Oh hey right after beef CAFOs started dominating the industry.
Surely you jest as the animal agriculture industry is many times larger than any "big sugar" boogeyman.
"Bigger = Badder" is quick & easy heuristic, but not a particularly accurate one.
It is when it comes to slaughtering 80 billion sentient animals each year.
I feel like I hear that a lot.