I think people use compartmentalisation to avoid thinking about the consequences when they eat. I bet if you went to a slaughterhouse and saw the death, and if you read the science on the effect they have on local communities
the effect
A study looked at a series of small towns in pairs. One where a slaughterhouse opened, one where it didn’t. The towns with slaughterhouses saw increased alcoholism, mental health issues, spousal abuse… Taking lives all day long, it damages your soul. You have to become a worse person in order to survive that. A crueler person. It hurts your ability to treat other humans with kindness and respect.
, and you remembered all of that every single time you ate meat for a month, by the end of that month you’d want to go vegetarian.
They controlled for every other cause of the results that had been claimed. Nobody has any idea how they could have gotten those results, except from the addition of the slaughterhouse.
Random chance? No, reports and arrests of violent crime were significantly influenced by slaughterhouse employment when controlling for other potential causes, with a P value less than one in a hundred. The probability that random chance produced results as strong as this is less than one in a hundred. Random chance didn’t cause these results. People are predictable, and this was no fluke.
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I think people use compartmentalisation to avoid thinking about the consequences when they eat. I bet if you went to a slaughterhouse and saw the death, and if you read the science on the effect they have on local communities
the effect
A study looked at a series of small towns in pairs. One where a slaughterhouse opened, one where it didn’t. The towns with slaughterhouses saw increased alcoholism, mental health issues, spousal abuse… Taking lives all day long, it damages your soul. You have to become a worse person in order to survive that. A crueler person. It hurts your ability to treat other humans with kindness and respect.
, and you remembered all of that every single time you ate meat for a month, by the end of that month you’d want to go vegetarian.
Can you link that study? Sounds interesting.
Sure thing, https://www.jstor.org/stable/26161933
this isn’t proof of causation. it’s pure post hoc ergo propter hoc
They controlled for every other cause of the results that had been claimed. Nobody has any idea how they could have gotten those results, except from the addition of the slaughterhouse.
Do you want to submit an alternative hypothesis?
sure: people are different and unpredictable.
Random chance? No, reports and arrests of violent crime were significantly influenced by slaughterhouse employment when controlling for other potential causes, with a P value less than one in a hundred. The probability that random chance produced results as strong as this is less than one in a hundred. Random chance didn’t cause these results. People are predictable, and this was no fluke.