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[-] nova@lemm.ee 80 points 1 year ago

ITT: A bunch of non-vegans complaining that content posted to a vegan community makes them uncomfortable.

Also ITT: A bunch of people who haven't been convinced to go vegan asserting how to convince people to go vegan. Not them, but other people of course.

[-] eee@lemm.ee 25 points 1 year ago

I know I'm going to piss off every single group with this unpopular opinion, but I view veganism/vegetarianism and religion similarly.

Both of them come with benefits and downsides. The extent of these benefits and downsides differ from person to person. There's no "right" answer, talking about your choice is perfectly fine and I don't really care what you do either way, but I don't like it when you try too hard to convert me.

[-] nova@lemm.ee 34 points 1 year ago

People that want to convert you to their religion are usually concerned about YOU (saving your soul, etc.), so it's reasonable that it's YOUR choice to decline. The only concern is about your own well being.

People that want to convert you to veganism, on the other hand, are only concerned about the animals you're exploiting - it has nothing to do with you personally. Your choice to decline means you're condemning hundreds of animals to die every year for the rest of your life. This is a hard pill to swallow for animal sympathizers, so you must understand why arguments by vegans tend to be quite passionate.

But the two really aren't similar, other than the fact that they both make you uncomfortable.

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[-] Znarf176@feddit.de 15 points 1 year ago

What are your reasons for comparing veganism to religion? Aside from having a strong opinion I see no real similarities. To me it feels like non vegans want this comparison to be valid to be able to make it about personal choice when it really is about respecting others.

Also the "there is no right answer" argument is always in favor of the status quo which is factory farming animals. Is that really something you want to preserve?

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[-] seitanic@lemmy.sdf.org 24 points 1 year ago

For the second group, I always like to ask "Why should I use your argument to convince people when it didn't convince you?"

[-] Ulv@feddit.nu 51 points 1 year ago

I've seen the video i have worked on farms it doesnt bother me terribly

[-] Lazylazycat@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago

I find it hard to understand the disconnect you must experience.

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[-] amanneedsamaid@sopuli.xyz 40 points 1 year ago

I've seen those videos, a lot of them. I still choose to eat meat. I totally disagree with the implication that anyone who eats meat is being willfully ignorant of evidence that would convert them.

[-] Flughoernchen@feddit.de 25 points 1 year ago

So then why do you eat meat? Are you just a selfish narcissist who thinks their pleasure is more important than anything else? Or what is it?

Because scientific evidence hates you.

[-] amanneedsamaid@sopuli.xyz 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Of course I'm not a 'selfish narcissicist who thinks their pleasure is more important than anything else', that's total hyperbole (and the fact you exaggerated the fuck out of something doesn't make anyone think you're more intelligent or your point holds more weight).

I will answer you, but my reasoning really doesn't matter. For me its a combination of the lack of impact I as an individual consumer can have on that industry, and the negative affects veganism can take on your nutrition.

Also, there is ZERO scientific evidence that humans should not eat meat. Unless you're trying to say those videos are "scientific evidence" that I should be vegan, in which case I think you have psychosis.

[-] threeduck@aussie.zone 19 points 1 year ago

If every one went vegan like vegans do, then there absolutely wouldn't be a lack of impact, what a bizzare thing to suggest?

If everyone acts like you and goes "ah well, I can't change anything", that flawed "logic" can be used to commit any number of atrocities.

I do like that "scientific evidence" argument though. Like, "sorry judge there's no scientific paper decrying killing people with a car so I did it". You don't need a scientist to tell you to do an objectively good thing - in this case stopping the unnecessary culling of sentient life for your tastebuds.

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[-] seitanic@lemmy.sdf.org 20 points 1 year ago

Are you just a selfish narcissist who thinks their pleasure is more important than anything else?

I've been a vegan for almost a decade, and I've finally started to see how self-entitled carnists are. How I used to be. I thought that I was entitled to the bodies of other living, sentient beings.

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[-] PapaStevesy@midwest.social 19 points 1 year ago

Scientific evidence is unbiased, you hate them.

[-] pjhenry1216@kbin.social 25 points 1 year ago

I think it's worse to admit that you're fine with inflicting that kind of pain on animals and still enjoy the end result. There's a reason they tell parents to be wary of kids who enjoy torture. You're just a step below that.

[-] amanneedsamaid@sopuli.xyz 17 points 1 year ago

Holy shit, you are so delusional and full of yourself. You sound like prepubescent teenagers on Xbox Live that call people "pathetic" every chance they get. 💀💀 Get over yourself.

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[-] Custoslibera@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year ago

If this sign were true I’d be a vegan 10 times over.

I’ve watched all vegan propaganda I’ve ever had sent to me:

Dominion. Earthling. Land of hope and Glory. The greatest speech ever (Gary Yourofsky) Cowspiracy Seaspiracy Don’t watch

Send me more I’ll view it.

This type of propaganda, in my experience, works on impulsive highly emotional people who willingly anthropomorphise animals.

A major diet change like becoming vegan shouldn’t happen because you saw one video. That’s a health disaster waiting to happen.

[-] Floey@lemm.ee 23 points 1 year ago

A vegan view requires no amount of anthropomorphizing. It's the traits that humans share with non human animals that makes what we do to them unjust. The traits that make us different are not required, and neither do they justify our treatment of animals.

Emotionally resonating with animals also does not require anthropomorphization. Empathy and sympathy between humans and non human animals is default in most people because of our shared experiences. A lack of is a sign of, at the very least, selective sociopathy, like the kind soldiers might be trained to have in regards to enemy combatants.

Veganism also is not a diet, I think that's important to say. And veganism doesn't create health disasters out of thin air. There's a plethora of nutritional studies backing up how eating with vegan restrictions can be more than adequate.

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[-] Lightbritelite@lemmy.ml 34 points 1 year ago

I feel like that sign is a bit alienating, which is unfortunate because it perpetuates the idea that vegans are holier than thou. As a person that (i think) understands the basic reasoning behind veganism (intentional non-participation in animal exploitation and cruelty?) i wish that more people would consider it. Hey, maybe that should be a sign

[-] pjhenry1216@kbin.social 37 points 1 year ago

People have been saying that for decades. It doesn't work. I never understood the concept of "protests shouldn't make me feel uncomfortable or inconvenience me." That kind of undercuts the purpose of a protest and trying to spread a message. If you make it so it's easy to ignore, it doesn't work. Without fail there's always the "ugh, someone who tries to make me feel bad about torturing and killing animals is simply not going to convince me to do otherwise." It's such a shitty excuse.

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[-] seitanic@lemmy.sdf.org 17 points 1 year ago

This is something that I often think about in connection with veganism.

I can sit down and watch a video about how vegetables are produced. It might be boring, but I could watch it.

Most carnists, on the other hand, can't sit and watch how hamburger, sausage, cheese, etc. is produced. For them to enjoy that food, they have to ignore all the suffering behind it.

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[-] twelvefloatinghands@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago

Not vegan, but I can definitely agree factory farms are vastly underregulated

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[-] AnonTwo@kbin.social 28 points 1 year ago

To be fair, I feel like there's a lot of videos that would traumatize you if you watched them, not just ones related to meat. Sure there's traumatizing videos you should watch, but actively seeking that stuff out seems like no way to live.

[-] pjhenry1216@kbin.social 31 points 1 year ago

Ok, but it's about something people actively and blindly participate and fund. Not just folks watching traumatizing videos for fun.

[-] Flughoernchen@feddit.de 25 points 1 year ago

Everyone is like "Yeah I know it's bad." But they still actively refuse to acknowledge just how bad it really is.

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[-] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

I didn't even watch the videos. I just saw a video of someone's pet cow who was curled up in a little girl's lap getting a scratch after having been snuck into the porch by the kid, and that was enough. One day the light just goes on.

[-] Z3k3@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'll stop eating meat when you convince every other omnivore on the planet to stop it. To pretend we are some how more more elevated than any other animal on the planet is arrogant. If we were were any better than a virus we would realise te are fucking ourselves over the need for the abstract concept of stock price go up.

I have seen how animals are killed hell caravan park I holidayed In as a kid was next door to an abattoir which I walked passed eating a burger.

I also grew up in the country helping my farmer friends on cow rearing farms.

Plants and mushrooms are living entities too with growing evidence that they too react and warn their kind when under stress pr attack. As we learn more about the plant and mycelium world the arguments fall apart.

Life cannot exist without death in the end all we can do is minimise the suffering. Something we can't seem to manage for our own species never mind others.

I say this as someone with mostly vegan wife and who where it doesn't suck will pick the non meat option.

E typo I'm sure I missed some

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[-] sturmblast@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

pardon me while I fry up some bacon

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