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Veganism is pro fossil fuel (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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Before tractors, almost the entire food chain involved animal slavery, since farms used draft animals. For that matter, even transportation was based on animal slavery (horses). Many of the sustainable and high performance fabrics like wool, silk, and leather are now replaced by synthetic fossil-derived plastics. But petroleum is also an animal product.

To be vegan, is to choose fossilized animal products and services over fresh.

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[–] [email protected] -5 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Not talking about eating meat, that’s vegetarianism. Many animals eat grass or waste products, like chickens and pigs.

Veganism as a rejection of all animal products and services, is a full embrace of petroleum.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

But petroleum isn't just plants, it also includes organic matter from animal corpses. Think before you say these things, Mitch.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Why?

[–] [email protected] -2 points 6 days ago (2 children)

It’s a shower thought not a thesis.

Vegans reject wool and feathers because of animal servitude. The alternative is synthetic polyester fiber.

Vegans reject draft animals and horse riding in favor of internal combustion.

Vegans reject natural local animal trans fats for coconut and palm oil shipped around the world by burning oil, and sometimes harvested by monkey slaves anyway.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (2 children)

and sometimes harvested by monkey slaves anyway

bruh

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

True story bro

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/10/19/448960760/monkeys-pick-coconuts-in-thailand-are-they-abused-or-working-animals

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

In SE Asia, you can find fruit or coconut vendors that you give the money to and then they send a monkey up to pick whatever off the tree for you.

I don't know how well compensated or how well treated the monkey is, but I would hope the monkey feels it has a cushy life.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

LOL yes, even from here you can still smell the reddit. Say the sky is blue and somebody will object because it's not always, and maybe even go down a rabbit hole because the sky includes outer space, which is black, and also glowing stars of many colors. And ur mom!