Instigator / Pro
2
1535
rating
7
debates
64.29%
won
Topic
#3319

Governments should subsidize animal product alternatives (e.g., plant-based meat)

Status
Finished

The debate is finished. The distribution of the voting points and the winner are presented below.

Winner & statistics
Winner
2
2

After 2 votes and with the same amount of points on both sides...

It's a tie!
Parameters
Publication date
Last updated date
Type
Standard
Number of rounds
3
Time for argument
Three days
Max argument characters
10,000
Voting period
One week
Point system
Winner selection
Voting system
Open
Contender / Con
2
1511
rating
7
debates
42.86%
won
Description

This debate is for round 1 of Lunatic’s February Debate Tournament (https://www.debateart.com/forum/topics/7273-february-debate-tournament), between me and DeprecatoryLogistician.

Thanks for the debate, DeprecatoryLogistician. Let me know if the rules and definitions work in the comments.

== Definitions ==

“subsidize” = support financially (for example, paying part of the cost of producing something to reduce prices for the buyer)

“animal product alternatives” = alternatives to meat, eggs, and/or dairy products that are not made from living animals (such as plant-based meat)

== Rules ==

(1) The first round is not for acceptance. We can start arguing in round 1.

(2) No new arguments in the final round (including new responses, except for new responses to the immediate previous round of your opponent’s).

(3) BOP is shared. Pro needs to show that governments (not necessarily all of them) should subsidize animal product alternatives, while Con needs to show that governments should not subsidize animal product alternatives.

(4) No kritiks (including “pre-fiat” kritiks, like asking judges to vote someone down based on the language they used, and “post-fiat” kritiks, like moral skepticism).

(5) Judges should vote based on what happened in the debate, not their personal views on this topic. Since this is a “winner selection” voting system, you should vote based on who won the debate (rather than voting based on the categories in the four-point system).

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@Barney

Thanks

Regarding the request to not vote on this one, I have changed it to unrated to make any tied votes affect nothing.

get well soon. you'll get through it

oh. Yeah I'll vote tie

This is the true heavyweight bout of the first Round now.

I must say I do like this topic. While it’s not an issue I have historically cared too much about, the topic itself is kinda interesting.

I have one side I would favor here, but if I were to vote on this I would base it off of the question: what side would I pick if I came into the topic knowing nothing about it?

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@DeprecatoryLogistician

OIC.

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@Intelligence_06

He was sick, and could not make arguments in r1.

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@Tejretics

Why did you start the same debate twice?