• iusearchbtw@lemm.ee
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        6 months ago

        Weird how every time veganism comes up everyone is suddenly deathly allergic to anything that doesn’t scream when it dies

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          6 months ago

          …every time veganism comes up…

          You mean every time that a vegan uses whatever tenuous link to the current topic they can imagine exists to bring up veganism?

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            6 months ago

            Post: animals have emotions

            Comment: we shouldn’t kill things with emotions

            I dunno seems pretty related. And when we’re feeling a lot of empathy for animals is probably the best time to think about these issues

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              And then when someone brings a topic to discussion related to these issues

              “I can’t be vegan, i’m allergic to a lot of stuff”, suddenly it’s not about having a discussion anymore but rather to push one side of the story without consideration for others.

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                6 months ago

                You can still care about animal cruelty and be ethical, even if you have an allergy. Having a medical condition doesn’t give you a free pass to do whatever you want.

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          6 months ago

          Stuff from milk, mushrooms and eggs don’t scream, so do a lot of salads and olive oil, even rice is silent.

          And don’t start with those industrial cows that only get to live because of the milk. That stuff tastes like shit. Same with those chickens in cages.

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            6 months ago

            I’m pretty sure, that both cow and calf are screaming when they are separated shortly after birth. Alnost like a mother and her baby have an emotional bond.

            And even the smallest farm will absolutely kill them once they aren’t profitable anymore, or they’d have an ever increasing population of animals.

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          Plants scream when they die, we just don’t notice it. They release all sorts of pheromone type chemicals that warn other plants that there is danger. That’s definitely a scream.

          I’m not saying eating meat is better, I’m just saying that seemingly the only truly ethical things to eat are raw minerals, and I don’t believe that’s possible, other than salt. Salt seems to be the only tasty rock.

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            6 months ago

            Graphics cards totally scream when they die too, the smell warns their symbiotic sysadmins to turn off the power

            And don’t even get me started on how chalkboards scream when you scratch them, why do vegans not talk about this cruelty

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      6 months ago

      Silly vegoon, only the cute animals I didn’t want to eat have feelings. The others are unfeeling slabs of meat that is magically created by wholesome farmers being folksy.

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      I don’t eat meat, but the more we learn about plant intelligence, the less I can say with confidence that plants do not have their equivalents of things like pain and emotion. It doesn’t help that we have great difficulty defining what emotion means.

      But we know a lot about plants now that we thought were animal things. Grass “panics” or “screams” by sending out chemical signals when you cut it as a warning to others of its species that they are seriously injured and danger is coming. That’s what the smell of fresh-cut grass is. Sure, calling it a panic or a scream is anthropomorphizing it, but it’s kind of hard to describe it in other terms.

      We also have learned about “mother trees,” which will send resources to their offspring if the offspring let the mother tree know they are in desperate need of them. Which sounds very much like parenting in animal species. There’s also lots of evidence that plants can learn from experiences and retain some sort of memory of them in some capacity.

      Do I think plants have the same sort of sentience as animals and will I stop eating broccoli? Of course not. But I will still have to admit that at the end of the day, I might just be choosing to cause a different kingdom of life pain and suffering because it’s far enough away from my species that I don’t consider that to be pain and suffering.

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        If you’re eating meat, then you’re contributing to the death of all of those plants that had to feed the animals you’re eating. Even if you grant plants sentience, veganism is still the more ethical option.

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          Is “more ethical” really enough if you accept that plants can suffer? You’re still essentially saying one group of living things’ suffering is acceptable to you. Isn’t that like saying the holocaust of the Jews was bad, but the holocaust of the Roma at the same time was fine because there were fewer Roma than Jews? Does “less” matter when we’re talking quantities so massive?

          I don’t think there are easy answers to any of these questions. Not if you want to approach them from an honest philosophical level.

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            Is “more ethical” really enough if you accept that plants can suffer

            I don’t accept that, but even if I did, you should still act to minimize suffering as much as possible.

            Do you really believe that killing a plant is the same as killing an animal?