AnimalsDream
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- Comment on I'm right and the other vegans are wrong 6 hours ago:
If that were true, there wouldn’t be an industry for plant-based foods. Vegan activists also drive real change, like exposing abuses, getting facilities shut down, and even driving legislation for better protections for animals.
It only seems like it makes no difference now because something like 95-98% of people globally still consume animal products, but throughout the course of veganism as a social movement, the percentage of vegans has grown.
The overton window just hasn’t moved enough yet. But it’s going to have to, because industrial animal agriculture is sheer madness and utterly unsustainable.
- Comment on I'm right and the other vegans are wrong 20 hours ago:
Yes, it makes a huge difference. Animal agriculture is one of the most environmentally destructive things we are doing.
- Comment on I'm right and the other vegans are wrong 20 hours ago:
Awesome. Also worth pointing out, eating honey by choice is kind of weird too if you think about it. It’s literally nectar that’s been regurgitated by bugs, I don’t get why so many would want that in the first place.
- Comment on I'm right and the other vegans are wrong 20 hours ago:
I saw your comments further down but I want to reply here because some people do sometimes make this argument in seriousness:
Like others said, if I could get all my nutritional needs met synthetically and/or photosynthetically (and still be healthy) I would be happy to. But as it stands, going entirely plant-based is the best and most practical way to minimize harm to all life - including plants. To consume animals you need to raise them, and it takes significantly more plants to raise an animal for food than it takes to eat the plants directly.
- Comment on I'm right and the other vegans are wrong 1 day ago:
Or just don’t eat either.
- Comment on Why Should I... 1 day ago:
Literally a mild opiate. The hypothesis is that it’s an evolutionary adaptation to ensure babies will reliably crave their mother’s milk.
- Comment on I'm right and the other vegans are wrong 1 day ago:
Here is an article about why honey is not vegan. I’ll quote some notable excerpts.
The latest research in the field suggests bees are indeed sentient, and experience a host of sophisticated emotions. In his 2023 book What a Bee Knows, entomologist Stephen Buchmann states that bees are “self-aware,” highly intelligent, and possess a “primitive form of consciousness.”
The Guardian reported on the book earlier this year, saying bees’ apparent ability to recognize different human faces, process long-term memories while sleeping, and feel optimistic, playful, and scared raises “complex ethical questions” about our treatment of them.
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…by using a piece of mesh that worker bees can pass through but [the queen bee] cannot, or clipping her wings. The structure contains horizontal sheets, where, because the queen bee is trapped nearby, the bees build their honeycomb.
To harvest the honey, beekeepers either smoke the bees to subdue them, or trap them with a clearing board over one or two days. Others kill the colony altogether.
Oftentimes, beekeepers replace the honey they remove with a sugar water substitute. This practice prompts honeybees to overwork themselves to replace the missing honey. Meanwhile, the sugar water lacks the nutrients, fats, and vitamins that bees need to be healthy.
Think of how labor rights, and even basic human rights are a constant struggle. Now imagine that you are a species that is regarded in such a way that everything you produce and everything you are is thoroughly classified a commodity. You do not have the capacity to speak against it. You are smart enough to suffer, but lack the degree of intelligence necessary to even begin to comprehend the enormity of what you are entrapped in. One species of animal has decided that all other species of animal are its products. None of the others can raise a voice against that. If human rights abuses abounds, how often do you think any kind of animal agricultural system is going to operate in a way that’s anything other than systematic abuse and suffering?
Is that really the kind of world you want to continue to create?
It’s easy to dismiss bugs, easy to think they don’t matter. But I think of them as a litmus test. We are the real equivalent to bugs, of what we think a God is like to us. Are we the kind of deitys that we would want to exist?
If you actually care about a mutualistic relationship between pollinators and humans, grow a garden.
- Comment on Why Should I... 1 day ago:
Damn that sounds tasty. People hate plant-based food, until they try good plant-based food.
- Comment on Why Should I... 1 day ago:
I mean, Daiyo is an example of the artificial-basically-mostly-coconut-oil cheeze I mentioned previously. Most stuff that you can find in the average grocery store is going to suck. Have you tried anything along the lines of, say, this almost award-winning plant-based cheese? Stuff like that is way better, but again, unique. Don’t expect it to be the same, although things may be changing soon since people have figured out how to get one of the key dairy proteins from non-animal sources.
There’s also homemade stuff, which varies. It’s pretty easy to make super creamy mac and cheese with plant-based sources only, for instance.
- Comment on Why Should I... 1 day ago:
Dairy is the most challenging thing to give up. There are good alternatives - particularly when they’re made of nuts and seeds that have been fermented traditionally - but they’re good in their own way, don’t expect them to be the same.
The stuff made out of almost pure coconut oil is universally disappointing, and coconut is arguably not vegan given the environmental footprint and resulting animal endangerment.
- Comment on Happy Labor Day! 3 days ago:
Every job I’ve ever had, I’ve had to work on labor day.
- Comment on Almost 38 & This Is Where I'm At Now 1 week ago:
Except not that gross 24 corporate ladder thing. But I guess 18-2x I was studying web design and had aspirations of making the next big web 2.0 site, back when it was still popular to idolize Google.
But by 24 I was already drinking the foss kool-aid and becoming jaded toward the tech industry.
- Comment on Is this true? 1 week ago:
Missables are the bane of my existence.
- Comment on Is this true? 2 weeks ago:
I pretty much always prefer open world, or at least something interconnected like a Metroidvania. Linear makes me feel like my back is against the wall.
- Comment on "No precedent in American history!" NYT would have defended child labor. 2 weeks ago:
If there were two candidates I could vote for, one of them saying they would establish universal healthcare but allow private insurance to continue; and one who would establish universal healthcare and promise to abolish private insurance - I would emphatically vote for the latter.
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- Comment on Easy Delivery Co. I'll just be a little car driving a kei truck around a mountain town. 3 weeks ago:
Hmm, the emperor Beld, resurrected for the sole purpose of killing the evil Goddess Cardice by the grand Wizard Wart; but due to some magical shenanigans
spoiler
I will be locked into an impasse which will cause her to resurrect, as well as myself (a stipulation of my resurrection is that it would cease upon completing my task of killing the Goddess).
Considering it’s pretty easy to make the main character insanely overpowered, I’ll be in a pretty comfortable position. My biggest issue will be that it was the Japanese version, and I don’t know Japanese. 🤔
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 3 weeks ago:
Worth it.
- Comment on 92% of American adults aren’t going to a doctor because they cannot afford it. The health insurance industry must be dissolved & all of its executives criminally prosecuted for murder, conspiracy, an… 4 weeks ago:
I don’t have data, but as a pharmacy worker one thing that seems very apparent to me is people with non-european/white names getting way more insurance rejections.
Also, insulin and inhalers should not be so consistently headaches to deal with. Inhaler insurance issues make me want to rip my hair out.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 4 weeks ago:
Cars and trucks should be banned within cities entirely.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
MetaDARVO sounds like some kind of villain robot name.
- Comment on What are your favourite PSP games? 1 month ago:
There’s a disturbing lack of *Phantasy Star Portable 1 & 2 in this thread.
Also want to second Rock Band Unplugged because it has similar gameplay to the ps2 game Amplitude.
- Comment on What are your favourite PSP games? 1 month ago:
Was looking to see if anyone recommended this one. Very simple game, but the action and progression are really addictive.
- Comment on Former Valve writer says PlayStation killing physical discs is no conspiracy: "You, the consumer, have made your choice, and the choice is for digital" 1 month ago:
If GOG just hired one full time intern to go ahead and bake Proton into their platform so they could have Linux support that isn’t completely broken, I’d probably start getting more games on their platform again.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Good luck creating one of those trendy diy air filters with a bladeless fan.
- Comment on Me in my moms house basement 1 month ago:
relatable.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
If you include the entire history of Windows programs, I have my doubts about this. For instance I’ve had more consistent results running old Windows games on Linux through WINE/Proton than I had in Windows 10. Linux may have better backwards compatibility with Windows programs than modern Windows does.
- Comment on Consider the following 1 month ago:
I wish there were mouse gloves where the tracking was on the middle finger tip, and I could press the middle, ring, or index fingertip on the desk for mouse clicks.
- Comment on Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas remasters are officially in the works 1 month ago:
So I should probably buy the original Fallout 3 before they delist it on Steam?
This trend of companies slapping a new coat of paint on old games just to resell it is annoying. Having to rebuy the same game repeatedly is something I was hoping to get away from when I stopped buying consoles.
- Comment on Newsflash pal 2 months ago:
Not really the same thing.
