Culture vs. Compassion: Does Culture Justify Eating Animals?

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• andrewta@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Not sure if it makes it right or wrong, but it still tastes good.

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  • cleanprairiedog@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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    • qaz@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Hey I removed your comment on the video you shared recently because you seemed to imply the person you were responding to was a rapist. Ad hominem attacks are not allowed on .world, please keep the discussion civil. You can of course post it again without the first sentence.

      Here’s your comment without the first sentence for easy pasting:

      Animals are sexually abused to create animal products. It’s easier to be vegan than you might think, After a few years of following a plant-based diet instead of a flesh and secretion based diet, taste buds change. I’ve had Taco Bell mess up my order and had a few bites of animal flesh before realizing it. The taste was revolting. Before I went vegan, I liked the taste of meat a lot. When I saw a picture of a pig in a gestation crate and the emotional pain she was in, I decided I didn’t want to support my body with that unnecessary death any longer.

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• Son_of_dad@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m native and I’m vegetarian, but mostly cause of the horrible, disrespectful way that mass meat production treats the animal’s life and care. I have no problem with eating meat, if I hunted it myself, showed respect to the animal, and used as much of the animal as possible without wasting or returning the rest to the earth. Since I can’t do that I just don’t eat meat.

  I love animals, but I know that we’re all part of an ecosystem and eating meat is part of all human culture, not just mine, from long long before any of us. I don’t think it’s wrong to eat meat, it just sucks how easy it is to buy meat and not give a thought to how you got it and what it cost, beyond money.

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  • cleanprairiedog@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s a strange definition of love if it involves killing the individual you claim to care about. I don’t think a person can love someone and then kill them unnecessarily. I don’t think the length of time something has been happening makes it morally right or wrong. Slavery and colonization have been going on for long periods of time and most people recognize those might makes right practices as unethical. If there was another species that hunts, kills, and consumes humans, would you be OK being the victim if it was a part of their culture and in their same ecosystem?

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    • Son_of_dad@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If a lion ate me I would not be offended no. We’re animals, part of the chain. We can choose to not eat animals. If I wanted beef I’d raise beef cattle but then I’d fall in love with the babies and never eat them, so I avoid meat.

      To use a modern, Western, privileged, moral stance on something humans have been doing for millennia is just silly.

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• Pilferjinx@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Killing Palestinians is Israel culture, but it doesn’t make it right.

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  • oDIRECTORo@lemmy.radio ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    COPE

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• mangosloth@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m a long term vegetarian/almost vegan, and I have to say this vegan proselytizing shit is fucking insufferable and is why everyone else hates us. If you’re the one who made the video, the way you talk to her is so condescending and smarmy I’m surprised this poor girl didn’t just leave. The points you make are also full of entitlement and are just straight up wrong at certain points. I feel bad for her being subjected to this.

  Honestly, I’m glad I chose to stop eating meat without “activists” like you around me because if I were still eating meat and you tried something like this on me, I’d dig aaalll the way in on my choice to eat meat because of you. You’re doing far more harm than you realize.

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  • cleanprairiedog@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You’re still supporting animal abuse if you’re vegetarian. Dairy and egg industries sexually abuse cows and grind up male chicks. If you care about animals, go vegan.

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    • mangosloth@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Way to read and respond to anything I said. Just double down on your shittiness instead, surely that’ll win people over.

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