Yeah, I have noticed that with a lot of HN threads that resolve around eating meat. It gets to a level of tinfoil-hat that I'm absolutely not used to on this website, but maybe I've simply not been here long enough. The other day someone unironically said they feel there is "a war on protein" going on, because apparently it's more likely to have an "elite intellectual class" in the background, scheming to deprive us from nutrients, rather than the fact that raising and killing billions of animals each year could simply have adverse side-effects for our planet.
I have no explanation for this, and it makes me a bit sad to be honest. It really seems like a whole bunch of people here simply do not want their worldview challenged when it comes to eating animals, and will continue to do so no matter what.
With the recent uptick in doomsday-news regarding our climate and all the effects we can feel *right now*, it's also possible that I'm overly sensitive. But it's really depressing to see the community that I've been very impressed with regarding their discussions take such a weird, head-in-the-sand stance on this.
I have no explanation for this, and it makes me a bit sad to be honest. It really seems like a whole bunch of people here simply do not want their worldview challenged when it comes to eating animals, and will continue to do so no matter what.
With the recent uptick in doomsday-news regarding our climate and all the effects we can feel *right now*, it's also possible that I'm overly sensitive. But it's really depressing to see the community that I've been very impressed with regarding their discussions take such a weird, head-in-the-sand stance on this.