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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Pro-life conservatives should be vegan if they want to be morally consistent.

US conservatives have no hope of being morally consistent on that. The problem is they are not actually #proLife in the slightest (apart from abortion). To be clear, in the US context we are talking about a group that:

  • opposes gun control
  • opposes welfare
  • opposes immigration and pushes xenophobic border control
  • opposes public healthcare
  • opposes social security
  • opposes environmental regulation
    • denies climate change (thus opposes actions to mitigate animal extinction and save human lives)
  • opposed masks & vaccinations during a pandemic
  • opposes worker’s rights (min. wage)
  • endorses Citizens United (thus giving corporations an upper hand over human beings)
  • generally supports the military industrial complex and weapons production
  • endorses factory farming and meat consumption

You cannot have those positions that are antithetical to life and call yourself “pro-life”. If you are in the above group but also oppose abortion, then you are simply pro-forced-birth. So flipping a conservative on the last bullet is negligible in an effort to get pro-life consistency. They would have at least ~10 more positions to flip on before they could assert pro-life consistency.