the pig was slaughtered in the past, before I walked into the store or decided what I’m eating this week. everyone involved was paid before all that, too.
Yeah, by everyone that buys meat. It’s simple. If we all stop buying it now they’re gonna run out and stop producing meat.
The meat you buy today pays the meat that enters the store later.
it’s not semantics
It absolutely is. If you eat pork, you indirectly pay for pigs to be slaughtered. Full stop.
the pig was slaughtered in the past, before I walked into the store or decided what I’m eating this week. everyone involved was paid before all that, too.
And with wat money? Your money and everyone else’s that buys meat. Not that it matters though, I’ll keep eating my meat.
money can’t travel back in time.
No it doesn’t. But money does allow them to keep going…
they are paid before the bacon enters the store
Yeah, by everyone that buys meat. It’s simple. If we all stop buying it now they’re gonna run out and stop producing meat. The meat you buy today pays the meat that enters the store later.
do you have a plan to get everyone to stop buying meat now? it sounds like a pointless hypothetical that we can’t even test.
no, it doesn’t. it pays the store today. that’s it.