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[-] jsomae@lemmy.ml 70 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Livestock have to live through horrible agony, like the worst kind of torture. This means (by biomass, which some people correlate indirectly with moral worth), at least 60% of mammals on Earth undergo horrible torture. Bentham's Bulldog, "Factory Farming is Literally Torture."

Excess pigs were roasted to death. Specifically, these pigs were killed by having hot steam enter the barn, at around 150 degrees, leading to them choking, suffocating, and roasting to death. It’s hard to see how an industry that chokes and burns beings to death can be said to be anything other than nightmarish, especially given that pigs are smarter than dogs.

Ozy Brennan: the subjective experience of animal's suffering 10/10 intense agony is likely the same as the subjective experience of a human suffering such agony. (~6 paragraph article, well worth a read.)

[-] v4ld1z@lemmy.zip 12 points 4 days ago
[-] Soulg@ani.social 16 points 4 days ago

Lmao the slurs you make up are so cute

Nobody defends factory farms they're universally hated

[-] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 12 points 4 days ago

Nobody defends factory farms they’re universally hated

But not enough for people to boycott, other than a single-digit % of the population.

[-] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 7 points 4 days ago

Can you explain how that is a slur? Who is being unfairly oppressed/please describe the victim of the slur?

[-] syreus@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

If you are describing omnivores as "carnies" then that would be a slur since most people consider people on the carnivore diet to be unhinged or misinformed.

Slurs exist to denigrate and diminish ones character.

Without argument, more vegetarians will help the world, but I don't think name calling wins hearts and minds.

[-] itslilith 5 points 4 days ago

you seem misinformed, 'carnist' and by extension 'carnie' has nothing to do with the carnivore diet, but with carnism:

Carnism is a concept used in discussions of humanity's relation to other animals, defined as a prevailing ideology in which people support the use and consumption of animal products, especially meat.[1] Carnism is presented as a dominant belief system supported by a variety of defense mechanisms and mostly unchallenged assumptions.[1][2][3][4]

[-] syreus@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

The term carnism was coined by social psychologist and author Melanie Joy in 2001

I have been hearing this term used to demean meat eaters since the late 80s. I guess they were all misinformed too.

i've been wondering for a time whether maybe, blood sacrifices didn't ever actually end but the factory farmings are just a modern decoy for the actual blood sacrifices ...

[-] RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 days ago

Now introducing Tyson's CEO: Cthulhu.

this post was submitted on 13 Jul 2025
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