who cares about chickens
Most people. Anyone who isn’t a psychopath cares to some extent about animals, vegan or non-vegan
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Warl0k3@lemmy.world 2 months agoThey’re easy to hate - They’re weird, eat funny foods, care about things nobody else does (who care about chickens) and my god is there a subset of them that are the most truly obnoxious human beings (a statement that is, conveniently, true of every single group of humans). They’re basically furries for the non-internet crowd, nobody ever interacts with them to know it, so they get defined by the strawmen people create of them.
AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com 2 months ago
ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
I think it’s funny how quickly any anti-vegan talk turns into “I actually think it’s ok to torture animals”
MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Can you find me a sample of someone saying, “I actually thing it’s ok to torture animals”? I’d be intersted to see that if it’s actually happening. Or, are you creating a straw man?
ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Literally that post’s grandparent, which is the subject of that post?
MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I hate chickens. They’re loud, obnoxious, and they kill and eat each other. That doesn’t mean that I’m going to abuse them. I take good care of my chickens despite the fact that they’re assholes.
queermunist@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
They’re loud, obnoxious, and they kill and eat each other.
They’re just like us! 😌
MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Pretty much.
queermunist@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
I had a pet chicken in elementary school. She was a sweetheart.
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 2 months ago
The cause has been tainted by the extremists, to the point where even some vegans are being pushed away from the movement.
Of course, the ones that are on a niche media platform, in a community dedicated to veganism, are likely to be the nutter ones.
Monstrosity@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Yikes. You know, vegans are targeted by the extremely wealthy & powerful meat & dairy industries who spend untold fortunes making the vegan lifestyle look as unappealing and “crazy” as possible?
I mean, I’m sure you’re galaxy brain is impervious to propaganda and everything, I’m just saying, you’re painting with an awfully broad brush.
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 2 months ago
That’s getting a bit tinfoil hat, don’t you think?
WarlockLawyer@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Or its tracing the money and influence of different lobbies in America. Just look at the original gerrymandered food pyramid made to accommodate the dairy industry. Or lawsuits against plant based alternatives.
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I think the cause has been tainted by the rampant propagandizing and demonization across all forms of media that the movement has been subjected to. You’re doing it now, even - what the hell even is an “extremist vegan”?
MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Extreme vegans are the people who stand outside restaurants, grocery stores, butcher shops, etc. and yell at people just trying to go about their lives calling them carnists, corpose munchers, blood mouths, animal torturers, and talk about murdering animals (murder is the killing of one human by another) or eating cadavers (a cadaver is a dead human body.) They don’t simply go about their lives living their best vegan life but harass and harangue people. They do the same thing online.
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 2 months ago
You should read the post the vegan@lemmy.world mods made in response to the admin actions. Phrases like “carnist Lemmy admin”, as if that’s the reason they didn’t like the idea of starving a cat.
There was also a comment saying Vegan should be a protected belief, like other religions.
It’s not a conspiracy by the meat and dairy industry.