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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Your point, as I understood it, is that for the vast majority of us, our food animals don't talk to us in recognizable language. If pigs and chickens suddenly started speaking English, I'll bet the meat market would change pretty drastically, pretty quickly. Westerners largely balk at eating apes just because they kind of look like us; speaking is a bigger deal.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

My point also covers the excluded category of "doesn't look like the consumer, doesn't talk AND is sapient".

We're horrible hypocrites, but the vibe implies they shouldn't be, and yet...

(By "we", I mean non-vegan humans, of which there are many and I'm one. This may or may not include you. By "they", I mean the characters in the comic.)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Your caveat was very thorough. Good job.