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[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (7 children)

Weird how every time veganism comes up everyone is suddenly deathly allergic to anything that doesn't scream when it dies

[–] Shiggles 7 points 5 months ago

Vegans complaining about other people needlessly injecting themselves into conversations is peak copium.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

...every time veganism comes up...

You mean every time that a vegan uses whatever tenuous link to the current topic they can imagine exists to bring up veganism?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Post: animals have emotions

Comment: we shouldn't kill things with emotions

I dunno seems pretty related. And when we're feeling a lot of empathy for animals is probably the best time to think about these issues

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

And then when someone brings a topic to discussion related to these issues

"I can't be vegan, i'm allergic to a lot of stuff", suddenly it's not about having a discussion anymore but rather to push one side of the story without consideration for others.

[–] zarkanian 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You can still care about animal cruelty and be ethical, even if you have an allergy. Having a medical condition doesn't give you a free pass to do whatever you want.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

You can still care about ethics and animal safety, and you are allowed to avoid foods you cannot eat due to allergy, even if that comes at an unfortunate cost

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I'm deathly allergic to evangelism.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago

Cows are deathly allergic to knives

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I really wish alpha gal allergy was more prevalent.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

Maybe one day I'll stop reading "alpha gal" as a female alpha male

[–] BudgetBandit 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Stuff from milk, mushrooms and eggs don’t scream, so do a lot of salads and olive oil, even rice is silent.

And don’t start with those industrial cows that only get to live because of the milk. That stuff tastes like shit. Same with those chickens in cages.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure, that both cow and calf are screaming when they are separated shortly after birth. Alnost like a mother and her baby have an emotional bond.

And even the smallest farm will absolutely kill them once they aren't profitable anymore, or they'd have an ever increasing population of animals.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Ummm.... We don't typically have just one pen or pasture for the animals. The males and females are typically kept separate from each other, except for when we specifically want more animals.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Cattle are artificially inseminated when farmers want more, they don't get put all together

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

We didn't have cattle. Just horses, sheep, goats, chickens, ducks, a couple turkeys, and rabbits.... Tons of rabbits accidentally one time. We let them do their thing when we wanted more.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

The context was factory farming in general and cows in particular. I'm glad you didn't kill the animals your family raised, though!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

your link implies that male calves all become veal, but the vast majority of male calves are brought to full weight before slaughter.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

is that supposed to make it better or are you being a pedant?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

i'm pointing out that you're spreading misinformation.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Some people can also just have health issues, but i get your point

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Plants scream when they die, we just don't notice it. They release all sorts of pheromone type chemicals that warn other plants that there is danger. That's definitely a scream.

I'm not saying eating meat is better, I'm just saying that seemingly the only truly ethical things to eat are raw minerals, and I don't believe that's possible, other than salt. Salt seems to be the only tasty rock.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Graphics cards totally scream when they die too, the smell warns their symbiotic sysadmins to turn off the power

And don't even get me started on how chalkboards scream when you scratch them, why do vegans not talk about this cruelty

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago