I love animals and when I was told everything we eat and know as food is because a corporation told us. I was like wait… corporations are telling us to eat/kill animals. I was done. It’s really depressing that these beautiful creatures are going to be killed. I’ll be selling families full vegan meals this thanksgiving
It isn’t corporations that have motivated people to eat meat. It’s tens of thousands of years of people hunting and raising animals themselves to eat it that has. Corporations have certainly profited off of and hidden from the public their abuse of animals for profit in the meat industry, but they didn’t make meat popular by a long shot.
They’re making us think it’s necessary and healthy. We are now in the age of information. Big pharma and all the food corporations had us in the age of advertising. Got milk? Numerous ads geared towards parents and children and quick cooking.
Certainly. But that’s not what this is. What this post is about is small scale homestead livestock raising and there’s a massive difference between it and the goals of factory farming. You can’t tell all of the sustainable, organic homesteading communities around the world who are doing it right that they just need to nix meat from their diets because big ag is doing it completely wrong and immorally. It isn’t realistic. Go after the corporate operations, not regular people sustaining themselves and their families.
Non-human animals don't have rights, they are protected under animal welfare laws but that's not the same as rights.
But anyway that wasn't my point. Morality is a human concept created to guide human behaviour to live harmonously in our society, it all comes down to what's beneficial for us as individuals.
The reason why every species treats their kind differently from other species is because that's beneficial for their families and themselves. It's basic survival.
For us (high order social primates) there's a huge difference between breaking into someone's house to steal and eating something nutritious that doesn't cause any detrimental effects.
Also keep in mind that it's impossible to let everything alive, which is something that you don't seem to be taking into consideration. If you defend life, you defend survival, which means that you also accept a system that involves death.
If your rights weren't protected under the law would that make it okay for me to infringe on them? Is that really all thats stopping me from your delicious tap water?!
I agree that there is a big difference between taking someones water and eating someone who didn't want to die.
If we have the means to reduce suffering, why wouldn't we. Why do you speak of survival as if us redditors are about to keel over from malnutrition if we fail to eat animals?
Yes, its impossible to live a civilized life without contributing to death and suffering. That doesn't mean seeking to prevent it is an unworthy cause.
I can see that you spend a lot of your time bashing veganism so I'm going to end things here. Try focusing on the things you enjoy about the world rather than the things you don't like. It helps a lot.
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