• crowebear@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    For the vast majority of my life, I regularly paid mega corporations in a corrupt and evil industry to rape females with machines to impregnate them, then separate the children from their mothers shortly after birth so that I could drink the mammary secretions meant for those children (who were then murdered if they were male, or raised in deplorable conditions to become part of the process themselves if they were female).

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      2 years ago

      And vegans wonder why they have a reputation for being overly dramatic and preachy 🤦

      If you want sane people to listen, maybe take it down several hundred notches…

      • EuroNutellaMan@lemmy.world
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        2 years ago

        I mean to be fair what he said is exactly how the milk industry works.

        I say this as a meat eater, that intensive production shit should be illegal even at the cost of reducing meat supply as traditional, more ethical, methods are insufficient to meet our (unsustainable) meat demand. Well at least until lab-grown meat becomes mainstream enough.

      • Io Sapsai 🌱@lemm.ee
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        2 years ago

        We have this reputation solely because people feel threatened and offended when you tell them that you refuse to eat animal products. They suddenly start being confrontational and refuse to listen to your reasoning.

        It’s like arguing with little children who plug their ears and sing while you’re trying to explain that 30% of the reason we’re in a climate crisis is their overconsumption of animal products, derived from creatures capable of emotion, able to see, hear, and smell not unlike you and me.

        And those conversations do not come up unsolicited but provoked by meat eaters asking “but why would you do that to yourself?”

        But maybe I’m being overly dramatic and preachy 🤦

        If I didn’t completely kill your interest in the topic, check out Ed Winters on YouTube.

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        2 years ago

        Sorry, I don’t find any of the actions I described above to be sane. And if you think I’m being sensational, you haven’t watched Dominion yet, and you should. I was actually just describing the “normal” aspects of the dairy industry; the reality of the conditions these living, thinking, feeling beings live in are even worse.

        “It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society.” -Krishnamurti

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      2 years ago

      I put out some bait last month to get rid of an ant problem I had in my kitchen, I guess I’m as guilty of mass murder as you are

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      2 years ago

      I, too, regrettably, participate in Capitalism. But rather then taking a counter-productive individual approach based on inconsistent morality and twisting myself into knots as a victim of this society, I took a systemic approach, got to the root of the problem and became anti-capitalist instead. This let’s me enjoy the fruits of tens of thousands of years of human agricultural and animal husbandry while enjoying some of the best cuisine’s human culture has produced.