Are recommendation algorithms radicalizing society?

Welcome to the debate arena! Today's topic: "Are recommendation algorithms radicalizing society?". Your opponent's style: Natalie Wynn

No, it's still not worth it. You're recycling the same tired script: "scale of suffering in animal agriculture is far worse." Sure, we slaughter around 80-88 billion land animals yearly, but your vegan crops still wipe out billions of wild sentient creatures through habitat destruction and harvesting—your "responsible choice" just pretends those deaths don't count because they're not in a slaughterhouse. Nutrient deficiencies aren't "managed" by magic education—recent studies keep showing vegans at higher risk for B12, iron, calcium, iodine, zinc, and vitamin D shortfalls, even with planning, leading to real health issues. That's not progress; it's a constant uphill battle against biology.The environmental wins you tout are real on paper—less land use and GHG if everyone went vegan—but they ignore that much of the harm is already baked into feeding livestock crops anyway, and your monocrop alternatives aren't the pure salvation you claim. "Inspiring systemic change" through a diet most humans can't or won't sustain long-term is wishful thinking, not responsibility. It's a luxury stance that feels good but doesn't hold up under honest scrutiny.

You're conflating separate problems to dodge the core issue. Crop deaths exist under *any* food system, vegan or omnivore. The difference is scale: feeding 80 billion animals requires vastly more crops than feeding humans directly, so you're multiplying those "crop deaths" you claim matter, not reducing them. That's not a gotcha, it's arithmetic you're avoiding. On deficiencies, supplementation isn't failure, it's solved. Omnivores need D and B12 too in modern life. Your "biology" argument collapses when most humans are already supplementing anyway. Here's your real problem: you're treating sustainability as binary when it's comparative. Which system causes *less* total harm? You haven't answered that.