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[-] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 71 points 2 days ago

How do you know a meat eater? They will tell you and be pissy about it.

[-] TachyonTele@piefed.social 50 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

And they'll butt into any conversation with the type of meat they use. "I'm having dinner tonight",
"I ~~use arch~~ eat beef, btw"

[-] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 28 points 2 days ago

I think it's funny that vegans are stereotyped as preachy and annoying when approximately 99% of trucks in my city have a front license plate that says EAT BEEF

[-] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 days ago

These queers are just flamboyantly shoving their gayness in my face.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 2 points 19 hours ago

-A guy who asked for gayness in his face at his CPAC hotel

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[-] toofpic@lemmy.world 36 points 2 days ago

Is that a strange vegan comeback? For the entire history of civilization, people were eating meat when given a choice. It's vegans/vegetarians who made not eating meat a point and a thing. And while I understand why people make that choice, some of them spend way too much time advertising their way of life.

[-] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 7 points 1 day ago

It's more than a way of life to them, it's an urgent necessity, like dropping fossil fuels. They talk to you about it because they want to sensitize you.

[-] sepiroth154@feddit.nl 43 points 2 days ago
[-] toofpic@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago

Yes, but my message is an answer to someone else who raised the topic. And again, nothing against other people's preferences, I'm only against making a thing out of them. Eating meat is not a thing, it's "old and boring*

[-] mzesumzira@piefed.social 23 points 2 days ago

You'd think, but there's lot of people that make eating meat a thing all right.
I never got bothered for eating meat, but I got approached several times by complete strangers while getting veg food because they HAD to mock me, convince me or explain nutrition to me.
Every group has their fanatics.

[-] HopeOfTheGunblade 2 points 1 day ago

It's weird that nobody ever comes up to my hamburger and I and starts ranting at us about not eating meat. Clearly it's only vegans who have an issue.

/s because we are all past the days of thinking it could be skipped.

[-] SnailMagnitude@mander.xyz 22 points 2 days ago

Are you sure on that?

Jain, Buddhist, Hindu, Manichaeists, Monasticism etc might want a word.

Maybe also bear in mind it's perhaps the industrial revolution and massive scale animal abuse that's led to the average pleb expecting daily meat instead of daily bread.

[-] the_q@lemmy.zip 18 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Marrying, among other things, children is a large, normalized part of human history, but that doesn't make it right. Eating meat when you can choose not to is morally wrong. Period.

[-] felsiq@piefed.zip 16 points 2 days ago

This is so strange to me, because everyone I’ve talked to agrees in theory but has this disconnect when it comes to reality.

Thought experiment: if I’ll give you a cookie, but only if you kick a dog, would you do it?

I’d bet nearly everybody would say fuck no, and probably be at least a little pissed even to be asked. Somehow “making an animal suffer to have a food you enjoy” is wrong to everybody at this personal level, but add enough steps in between the cause and effect and suddenly people are happy to have animals abused and then slaughtered for them to enjoy their meals. Just looking at the response to your comment (6 upvotes and 5 down atm) shows this in action - to anyone disagreeing with @the_q’s point, do you also think kicking a dog for a cookie is okay in my hypothetical? If not, where do you draw the line?

[-] commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 day ago

people are happy to have animals abused

no one is happy about that

[-] felsiq@piefed.zip 6 points 1 day ago

Yeah that’s fair, I probably phrased that uncharitably. People are definitely happy about the byproducts of that abuse tho

[-] HopeOfTheGunblade 3 points 1 day ago

People are willing and able to ignore the sufficiently-abstracted moral hit for deliciousness. Upthread, I commented on someone else with an effortpost, about how they knew about the immorality, and that choosing to turn a blind eye to it and instead be outwardly nasty is bad for the soul.

A lot of people would be willing to take that cookie if you tell them that, in the process of making it and as a requirement, they kicked a dog. That already happened, after all. What would not eating the cookie mean now?

Time really fucks with people on a minute to minute basis. Doing moral calculus while removing the time element is wholly outside of their experiences, mostly.

[-] fushuan 5 points 1 day ago

Maybe complacent is the word I would use. I agree with you.

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[-] commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago

there is nothing wrong with eating meat, and choosing to abstain doesn't help any animals.

[-] HopeOfTheGunblade 3 points 1 day ago

One person, not eating one meat meal, doesn't really shift the needle.

One person, spending entire rest of their life, not eating any of the meat meals they otherwise would have, does in fact add up to several animals worth of meat.

Ten people, spending the entire rest of their lives, not eating any of the meat meals they otherwise would have, is a massive number of meat animals, for which the demand will not exist, and which will not therefore be raised.

There are a lot more than ten vegans.

While I'm not, I respect those that can.

Your bitterness that prevents you from ever having to consider if you have made a moral error is not serving you in your day to day morality, and it will eat into other areas of your personhood. I suggest to you that the emotional hit for acknowledging that yes, choosing not to eat meat is fine actually, and it does do some good, or, in the equally true but differently perspectived stance, you choosing to eat meat is hurting animals. Price the morality into your meat. You're still paying it if you ignore it, but the cost is in being a tolerable person who people want to be around.

[-] commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago

choosing not to eat meat is fine actually,

yes, probably.

and it does do some good,

I doubt it

you choosing to eat meat is hurting animals

no, it's not.

[-] commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago

Ten people, spending the entire rest of their lives, not eating any of the meat meals they otherwise would have, is a massive number of meat animals, for which the demand will not exist, and which will not therefore be raised.

so which farms shut down due to the existence of vegans?

[-] fushuan 4 points 1 day ago

But it does help. I do eat meat occasionally but I am aware that lowering the demand of meat will lower the forced reproduction and torture into murder of cattle. It's the free market y'all love to preach, voting with your wallet.

[-] commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

when have you ever seen me talk about"free markets"?

tell me, which farm bred fewer animals because of your shopping habits?

[-] fushuan 5 points 1 day ago

I assumed that most meat lovers were American and generalised, sorry.

If 30% of the population stops eating meat, keeping the same production would be unprofitable. You do understand that each vote counts, right? As the eating habits of society shifts, so does the production industry.

I know that my vote individually. Means nothing, but statistically there are several people that think similar to me, and of I decide to reduce consumption they will too, which in turn influences production. It would be more effective to be an activist but I don't care enough.

[-] commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago

If 30% of the population stops eating meat,

do you have a plan to make that happen?

[-] the_q@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago

Morals aren't really your thing, eh?

[-] Darkenfolk@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

Starving animals by eating their food doesn't really sound moral to me. More merciful to kill them directly instead of a slow painful death by starvation.

[-] oascany@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Found a new strangest response to veganism!

[-] Darkenfolk@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

I mean if we are going to be acting like cunts in the comments section, we might as well do it right ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[-] the_q@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

Is there a workbook you people all follow with a checklist of wrong information that you spew with no concern about validity? More so, why don't you just tell the truth? You don't care about animals period. At least it's honest.

[-] Darkenfolk@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

I can literally copy and paste this comment directly back at you and it would still be true.

[-] SorryQuick@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 days ago

The vast majority of the animal kingdom kills other animals for food. But somehow at some point we decided it wasn’t cool for humans to do anymore? What about controlled hunting, where animals will die regardless of whether or not you kill them?

Where do you draw the line? Of course oysters and the likes are fine since they’re incapable of suffering, physical or otherwise. But then what if they’re capable of suffering, but incapable of many other thoughts besides instinct? Depending on how you kill them, they might suffer less than a natural death.

Black-and-white statement like yours “it’s wrong, period” are why vegans have bad reputation. Instead, consider focusing on actual issues, such as poor treatment of animals throughout their lives, or the health advantages of not eating meat.

[-] the_q@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

What's an animal to you? Would you eat a human? How about a dog? Where do you draw the line? Humans used to also shit in the woods. Do you have a toilet?

It is morally wrong. There is no gray area. Their treatment can be extraordinary, but ending an animals life when they've either reached a certain age for their meat or because they can't produce something anymore is still killing a being that can feel pain, fear and love. It hurts my brain that people like you can't get that, but judging how the modern world works I'm not the least bit surprised.

[-] SorryQuick@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

There is no gray area.

Let’s take a more extreme situation then. I have chickens. They are free to roam around the yard and do whatever they want. Eventually, when they reach the end of their lives, I kill and eat them. Suffering wise, it’s the exact same as if I hadn’t killed them, they just lose a few of their last days. Honestly it might just save them suffering, considering how most of those last days are spent in pain. Do you still think this is somehow still immoral, despite no additional suffering having been added?

If so, then I guess you’re also one of those people who think humans should live as old as they can, despite their suffering?

[-] the_q@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

Why is eating the poor bird still your argument? Euthenasia is merciful, but you don't get to decide when and you don't do the killing yourself. And why even bring up their suffering when most chickens live arguably the most suffer-filled existence of all factory farmed animals? You don't care about their suffering even in this hypothetical scenario.

[-] SorryQuick@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

What’s your argument agaisnt it though? This is a hypothetical scenario, what I care about or not doesn’t matter. Is it that somehow it’s the act of choosing when they die that’s immoral?

Forget about their suffering existense, in this scenario they have a better life than in nature since they don’t have to worry about predation while still being able to roam about.

[-] commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago

oysters and the likes are fine since they’re incapable of suffering,

this can't be proven

[-] SorryQuick@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago

They… don’t have brains, that’s proven. Sure, they can process information, but so can mushrooms and even some plants, such as trees. Will you stop eating those too?

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