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View submission: What’s Something We Do Today That Future Generations Will Totally Roast Us For?
Most likely eating meat. Up here in the Nordic countries the lobbying of veganism is getting harder, which shows in the media, in the culture produced and in workplaces such as universities in which the only food served might in some cases be vegan.
Health institutions all around the world are getting more and more into veganism, and though I believe it won't be a universal perspective, I see that in many countries the shift seems to already be happening.
Comment by odrer-is-an-ilulsoin at 13/01/2025 at 06:15 UTC
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Say I have a lack of imagination, but I can’t imagine a future generation roasting us for eating meat. First, that requires a future where the vast majority have stopped eating meat, and second, a complete lack of acceptance that eating meat made sense in some regard.
Rather, I believe future generations will be shocked not by our eating habits but by our farming habits (i.e., the mass industrial cattle, pork, poultry complex). How animals are cared for and then slaughtered will be looked upon with shock the same way we do today when reading Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle.”
Comment by rc_roadster at 12/01/2025 at 10:11 UTC
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Bit of a slanted view.
You can call it a shift but it's still very much the minority.
Eating meat isn't going anywhere, any time soon.
Comment by Liquor_D_Spliff at 12/01/2025 at 10:34 UTC
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Agree. I'm not sure on statistics of adoption, consumption reduction etc. but I know a lot of people who are willing to try meat alternatives, eat more veggie than not, will only eat chicken, etc.
In my lifetime (38 yo) being veggie has gone from being nigh on impossible to being just as easy, if not easier, than eating meat. I think it's great, and societal/cultural norms are shifting to normalise it.
FWIW, I eat meat, though I try to as little as possible. We don't really eat beef at home, for example. Always consider if a veggie option would be better, easier, etc.
I think people will look back on this period and the next 25 years and perhaps judge us for being the first generation that had a proper choice, and may think we should have adopted better dietary practices earlier. For environment reasons, primarily imo.
Comment by RolloTomasi1195 at 12/01/2025 at 09:05 UTC
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I don’t think that’s anywhere close to correct given the other issues in the world at large today. Eating meat has been proven for millennia. We have a lot of of other issues, including misinformation such as this.
Comment by Doc--Zoidberg at 13/01/2025 at 05:02 UTC
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Capitalism??? 🤣 Capitalism is why the world lives in luxury compared to before the industrial revolution kicked off
Comment by Ok_Sundae2107 at 13/01/2025 at 02:45 UTC
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Did you ever notice that nobody else in the world eats Nordic food? Lutefisk. Surströmming. Somethings rotten in Denmark!