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commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months agoAnimal agriculture is necessarily cruel.
i disagree.
Comment on Maybe this is better for everyone
commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months agoAnimal agriculture is necessarily cruel.
i disagree.
naught@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Please show me that factory farming is overwhelmingly not cruel
commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
cruelty would be inflicting pain for its own sake. in so-called factory farming, the pain is still only incidental. that is, if it were possible to create the same outputs with no additional inputs, and that process had no pain, there is no reason why a factory farming operation would prefer the painful process. so it is not cruel, it is only indifferent.
naught@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
So you are arguing that because a ruthless and uncaring system is responsible for creating massive suffering, it doesn’t matter? It’s awfully convenient that we don’t have to care about cruelty when it’s inherent in the system. People created these systems. We have the capacity to reduce the suffering. Why wouldn’t you want that?
If dogs were raised in these conditions, people would be outraged (see korea, china, puppy mills, etc.) It’s a bit hypocritical, don’t you think?
commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
how?
commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
cruelty is intentional. think of battlefield amputation: it hurts, but the pain isn’t the point. the pain is only incidental.
commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
you can see this is just an appeal to emotion, right?