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cattywampas@lemmy.world 23 hours agoPeople eat meat because they don’t value animal lives like human lives. You can make a moral argument against that, and you’d have a good case for it, but it’s not cognitively dissonant.
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cattywampas@lemmy.world 23 hours agoPeople eat meat because they don’t value animal lives like human lives. You can make a moral argument against that, and you’d have a good case for it, but it’s not cognitively dissonant.
VeganBtw@piefed.social 22 hours ago
Yep, but I have yet to find a single person that would way that eating meat is not a moral issue if they know about industrial livestock farming.
Arcadeep@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
I know about industrial livestock farming and don’t believe eating meat is a moral issue. I believe the way we treat livestock is absolutely a moral issue (as well as an ecological and health issue), but not the actual eating of meat
VeganBtw@piefed.social 18 hours ago
Yeah we can split hairs all day, but you just agreed. Eating meat, 95% of the time, includes how we treat livestock.
In a survey, if they ask me if I think murder is a moral issue, I won’t say no because I am thinking of self-defence. Abortion is a moral non issue, because most abortions are accidental. Good talk.
cattywampas@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Again, lots of them know, they just don’t care. Many people just do not care about non-human animal suffering.
VeganBtw@piefed.social 18 hours ago
Yes, but my point is they would see industrial livestock farming if they knew the issues it raised. I have yet to see anybody show me how industrial livestock farming, which is behind almost all instances of “eating meat”, is not a moral issue.