• railsdev@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    Again, your feelings (or anyone’s) are not the point. The point is to stop killing animals.

    I just don’t give a fuck how a person feels about me or vegans in general. Animals are being caged and/or tortured, then killed while we sit here pretending raising the issue is offensive.

    People just can’t put down the burgers and hot dogs and think about anyone other than themselves. Then they act like vegans are crazy. Yeah, okay

    • LadyLikesSpiders@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      Alright well my point is nobody asked you. Without massive legislative and systemic changes, and improvements on meat substitutes, you’ll never end factory farms. Not enough people will ever care to put down the hamburger, no matter how annoying you are about it, in order for a consumer’s wallet vote to make a difference in the industry. You can sit up there on your high horse, talking about how only vegans actually have empathy, while people roll their eyes at you fulfilling the stereotypes that discredit veganism. By all means, be a vegan. I fully support that. I even encourage it, but that is a lifestyle choice you make for yourself. I don’t believe the efforts of veganism are at all effective, and capitalism, horrendous though it is, has successfully alienated me from my food source that I am able to still have empathy and love for animals while consuming meat. The cow I eat was gonna die anyway

      You’re not some moral paragon; You’re proving exactly why veganism is a yellow flag for me

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          1 year ago

          Stop 👏 pretending 👏 you’re 👏 making 👏 a 👏 difference

          There is no ethical consumption under capitalism. It sucks, but we all have to pick and choose what parts of the system to support and which parts to avoid. You can make your own goddamned shoes if you feel so morally superior to avoid paying for child labor. Maybe avoid using your phone or a computer to grandstand so you stop supporting the exploitative labor that goes into mining the materials that make them

    • cactusupyourbutt@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      and this is why its a yellow flag. it can be a green one, or on your case, a red one.

      Raising the issue isnt the problem. beeing a pretentious dick about it is.