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What happened in the vegan community?

I hadn't heard about any of this until seeing that ToS post.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (3 children)

A lot of us are murderers in that way. Or accomplices, whatever. The thing about vegans specifically is that there's not any moral need for it. The goodness to animals would make you vegetarian. Not having cheese or eggs is not the slightest bit morally better.

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

You really just have no idea what you're talking about, huh?

Watch the documentary above and tell me that dairy and eggs have "not the slightest bit" of ethical concern for animal products other than meat.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

that YouTube video sucks and you should post a trigger warning when you link gore

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (2 children)

But aren't you the one advocating that this is okay? Why do I need a trigger warning for something so deeply and obviously ethical?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

your deeply biased YouTube video is notoriously traumatizing, with the production house that made it providing aftercare tips. viewers report sleeplessness, nightmares, vomiting, lack of appetite and depression.

you are acting irresponsibly

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don't have a problem with openheart surgery, but I don't link videos of it without a tag

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I feel like I'm being trolled right now. It's a documentary which is expressly about the extensive, systemic animal abuse that happens in the industry, and the first instance of that is over 5 minutes in. Did you not expect gore? Is this not like the most fundamentally obvious thing you could possibly expect from such a documentary?

Edit: oh, comment history tells me that I am being trolled. Interesting. Have a nice day.

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

I know all about your YouTube video, but unsuspecting people could be triggered, and it is your responsibility to warn others when you endanger them.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They're just filming what you paid for. You should've warned the camera crew of the documentary before endangering them.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I didn't send them to make it. I didn't pay them or anyone in the YouTube video.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So you're telling me that you didn't have to give the filmmakers a trigger warning that they'd see the animal abuse that you pay for and actively advocate for paying for? That in much the same way one might expect animal abuse going into a documentary on animal abuse, the filmmakers might have expected animal abuse going into the animal ag industry? Peculiar.

Your arguments are bad-faith nonsense, and I'm disengaging from this clownish conversation.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago

I have never paid for animal abuse. most people don't

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

Well now I'm wondering if you ever had an actual conversation with a vegan, because they actually have good reasons for this. A vegan diet is simply the most consequential idea if you want to minimize the necessity for animals to die, at the very least (even if we ignore the various ways of exploitation) because male chickens and calves obviously have to be killed in order for these industries to function.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I've had conversations with vegans, and when one said that honey isn't vegan because it's produced by an insect (they said animal, but that's incorrect), I stopped pretending that (at least some) vegans have any logic to their arguments.

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

Wait, why is there no logic in there? Insects are animals, and honey is made by bees, which are insects and thus animals.

If you believe you shouldn't use animals for your food production, which is a reasonable definition of veganism, then you shouldn't eat honey.

I mean, fine if you do eat honey too, but I don't really see your point here.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don't think bees are killed for their honey.
I could be wrong though.

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

You might be mixing up vegetarianism and veganism. Vegans also don't drink milk or eat eggs. You don't need to kill a cow or a chicken to get either.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Indeed I was, thank you.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

Eh kinda. The working conditions of cows and chickens is pretty horrible. I could see not wanting to be involved in that.

But personally, I'm going to worry about improving the working conditions of humans first.