I learned from Nirvana that it's okay to eat fish, 'cause they don't have any feelings.
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I have never understood this logic. If a lion eats a zebra, there's nothing wrong with it, but when a human eats a cow, they're a horrible person. (also I know that not all vegans think like this)
I personally believe there's nothing inherently wrong with eating meat, and instead the problem is how we treat the animals we eat and that we eat way too much meat, taking it for granted.
We are intelligent and capable of considering the idea that an animal may not want to die, and we have it within our means to survive without meat, or with much less meat than we currently consume.
Animals who are being lead to slaughter have been observed to panic and try to flee. They do not want to die. What right do we have to take the life of an animal that wants to live as much as any other person? We are capable of considering this question. Animals are not. That's the difference.
Even as a carnivore you would not eat a freshly born baby straight out of the mother's womb, whereas any other predator would see it as an easy meal. There IS a moral implication in taking life.
We can only afford to question this because we are in a utopia of sorts compared to just a few hundred years ago. We are capable of understanding that there are philosophical, moral, and ethical dilemmas to eating meat in 2023. However, if the world went to shit and say an electrical storm wiped out all electronics on Earth, we would not even hesitate to eat meat in as little as a few months in.
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the issue is that we're doing it on a massive scale semi-automatically.
keeping small amount of animals in decent-ish conditions (like on a small farm) and killing some for food/meat is fine.
keeping thouthands of animals in tiny cages where they basically can't move at all is not.
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Test. (Idk if my replies are working.)
They are!
Cheers. It’s just the one post. Weird.
Comments don't always seem to federate properly between instances.
I'm still so pissed they fridged Maria man, fucking bullshit
She'd been on the sidelines for 11+ years. Fucking disrespectful.
Anyone who grew up in the 90s knows that fish don't have any feelings anyway.
I grew up in the 90s and I also learned that underwater the fish don't stink.
It's like you are lost in the backrooms...
