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[–] [email protected] 162 points 1 week ago (4 children)

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does this look natural to u?

[–] cm0002 43 points 1 week ago (21 children)

I can side with the vegans that the meat industry needs to be clamped down on hard

But eating meat in of itself is not wrong, that is what is natural

[–] [email protected] 72 points 1 week ago (18 children)

There are plenty of things that are 'natural' that are wrong to do, why is eating meat any different?

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Yes, but most people in the west don't have the option to eat meat that are not from the meat industry.

That is exactly why veganism is attractive in the west.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

Murder and rape are also "natural."

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[–] Gradually_Adjusting 120 points 1 week ago (7 children)

As much as I admire the morality and overall health of vegetarian/vegan folks, I would also super respect anyone who got all their protein by monstering whole live mice that they caught by hand.

[–] FMT99 70 points 1 week ago (6 children)

I'd support a "you can eat all the meat you can catch and kill with your bare hands" diet.

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[–] tomi000 120 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (10 children)


Nature according to people who use that argument

[–] Lumisal 14 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Well if the ants can do it, why can't we?

(Btw, I'm opposed to caged chicken egg cultivation, and even had my own chicken in the past before I couldn't anymore for eggs. Now I just pay the premium and researched which were the most ethical eggs in the store available. Happy hens make better eggs anyway. I'm just pointing out we're not the only ones that raise animals for consumption in nature).

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[–] [email protected] 115 points 1 week ago (43 children)

Veganism isn't about respect for nature. It is a philosophy and way of living against animal cruelty and exploitation.

Congratulations on a legit shitpost.

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[–] LanguageIsCool 69 points 1 week ago (1 children)

We’re destroying the Amazon for cattle but haha birds eat rodents lmao gottem

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[–] BigBenis 68 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'll take "things actual vegans never say" for $500!

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 week ago (1 children)

it's not even a contradiction. One can respect something and not emulate it.

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I feel like this is the “attack helicopter” joke of veganism

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (48 children)
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[–] strawberrysocial 43 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (18 children)

I think the problem isn't that we eat meat. It's that we torture the animals and have them live in deplorable conditions before we eat them. If we all hunted or raised our own animals or had the animals live in decent conditions it would be less of an issue for most REASONABLE vegans and vegetarians. I used to be vegan and vegetarian a decade so I get it a bit. I hated it when anyone would bitch about other people's food choices, but then complain when they did the same to them for their food choices. Both sides I mean. I had some non-veggies once they found out I didn't eat meat would attack me for it. When I did start eating meat again some vegans and vegetarians would attack me for it.

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 week ago

Not a vegan, but I don't think I've ever heard a vegan say that. We've all watched nature shows. Rationale is usually a little bit deeper. Overconsumption, abuse of animals in meat/dairy industries, responsibility of humans to aim for a higher level of morality than animals, etc. Sure some go overboard, but I wouldn't underestimate the complexity of the thinking behind it.

[–] NIB 40 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (16 children)

Humans "i dont rape because i respect other humans". Meanwhile nature ....

And in before "but i need to eat", you dont need to eat animal products. You can have a healthy life with a vegan diet, arguably an even healthier life. And to go back to my original point, just because you need to cum, doesnt mean that you have the right to cause suffering and death to other sentient beings.

Just masturbate. Just go vegan.

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[–] ThatGuy46475 35 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There are too many people for us all to hunt our own meat, and the same amount of farmland that can feed x amount of livestock can feed significantly more people than the livestock would.

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[–] udon 32 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Non-vegan, hearing that vegans exist: "Hey, these people are different from me! I hate them!"

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[–] niktemadur 28 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 children)

So we domesticated fire, that's one step out of the swamp and steppes.
Then there was agriculture and animal husbandry, we became sedentary.

Writing developed, accelerating growth in the arts, math and engineering, the sciences... we had domesticated knowledge and memory - data storage.

Before we knew it, the printing press popped up and soon after we domesticated something abstract and invisible, awesome and truly fundamental - electromagnetism. That's is the big game changer right there.

We have figured out our physical place in the universe.
We can image distant supermassive black holes, we have mapped the farthest, faintest reaches of the visible universe using the oldest light there is - the Cosmic Microwave Background (which started out as orange light 13.7 billion years ago).

We are now in the process of harnessing sunlight and the wind; the genome; we can now even perform data operations using quantum superimposed electron states, harnessing the subatomic wave function itself.

Surely we can now domesticate cruelty-free protein chemistry. So many steps away from the swamp and steppes already, so far we can't turn and go back again. What's one more step?

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[–] DytallixB 22 points 1 week ago

This is for real shit post

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Hawks eat meat cause they have to. WE eat meat cause it's delicious. The Hawks dies if there are too many Hawks in one feeding ground. The human fucks up his and everyone elses Habitat for centurys cause he's too lazy to change.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The survival of the fittest narrative was debunked almost as soon as it existed, and that debunking is what forms the ideological basis of mutual aid. That people continue to spread this toxic misinformation over a century later is a testament to the unfortunate tenacity of lies.

Even in the most brutal depths of the natural world, cooperation is still the overarching basis of ecosystem health. It's known in Permaculture, for instance, that too much competition results in resource depletions.

A vegan ethic is inline with a growing awareness and need for us all to learn to expand our capacities of empathy and compassion, from those who are most like us, to those who are most unlike us.

On the topic of wilderness areas, vegans are divided on what the right approaches are. Some of us compare natural biomes to sovereign nations - while we dislike the harms that occur in those places, we feel a need to allow other species their independence to have their self-determination, if for no other reason than the fact that nature is the basis of maintaining a habitable planet, and interference in ecosystems should only be done with the utmost care.

But there are other vegans who do believe strongly that we should be intervening in wild places as well, with the goals of eliminating predation all together, and managing wildlife populations in more ethical ways.

It's a highly contentious topic to be honest.

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[–] Tikiporch 15 points 1 week ago

Falcons didn't fuck up by inventing tofu, so they have an excuse. We don't.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago
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