• Samsy@lemmy.ml
    5·
    4 months ago

    “we don’t know… they just are.” Could be a slogan for the whole meat industry.

  • ur_ONLEY_freind@lemmy.zip
    0·
    4 months ago

    We had this in texas but it’s illegal now.

    I think it’s illegal in six other states too.

    Reasons stated: Protect the economics of the cattle industry and to protect public health

    No more beyond steak tips in my pasta, For the good of public health and to support the sale of real cow meat that I already never buy…

    • Krudler@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      4 months ago

      This is known as a joke.

      One of the most sinister problems is with fee-fee vegans and vegetarians, who in service of their ignorance, kill way more things to sustain their politically-motivated and fee-fee-based lifestyle.

      I’m as close to vegetarian as my body will allow. I’m just calling the movement for what it is. Eat something that had a face? OMG! Flatten millions of acres, kill billions of insects, displace and kill millions of animals, farm the land with diesel equipment, ship the product in trucks 2000 miles. So vegan potato chips are on the shelves, and no worries we can wear our crocheted shoulder bags with self-assured pride!!

      • AnimalsDream@slrpnk.netEnglish
        2·
        4 months ago

        See the problem is the same as people who think it’s still funny to joke about abusing women. Even ignoring the offensiveness, we’ve heard it already. A million times. It’s old, really old, really uncreative. Boring.

        Just like the shitty, thoroughly debunked crop deaths regurgitation. If you’re going to try debating vegans, at least take a few minutes to do some basic research, cause you have no idea how repetitive this is for us.

        • commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          11·
          2 months ago

          this doesn’t debunk every crop deaths argument. it only addresses an argument in the form “since animals die in crop harvesting, vegans shouldn’t eat crops (or they would be hypocrites”.

          but the issue of crop deaths actually points to something else: people don’t care if animals die in the production of their food. vegans claim to care but will eat food covered in pesticides and harvested with threshers. the mental gymnastics they go through, like writing a four part essay about how these animal deaths are actually ok, shows that they, too, are ok with animals dying in the production of their food.

          • Hazor@lemmy.world
            2·
            4 months ago

            We can’t eliminate all suffering and harm, so we shouldn’t even try reducing it? Perfect is the enemy of good. For many if not most vegans, it’s about minimizing harm. Many are motivated by ecological concern as well.

            Some insects die on my car’s grill when I’m driving. I still go to work every day while calling myself vegan. Literally the only non-hypocritical action would be to kill myself. Forgive me if I don’t.

          • AnimalsDream@slrpnk.netEnglish
            1·
            4 months ago

            Show me where any vegan has ever argued that these deaths are okay? Your argument is both a strawman and bad faith. It’s the equivalent of when people claim anticapitalists are hypocrites because they have no choice but to participate in the existing system to survive. Cheap.

            Why are vegans in particular given blame for crop deaths, when it isn’t vegans who are doing the farming? We have veganic forms of agriculture that we advocate for, and practice in the case of veganic farmers and gardeners. But until that gains more traction all anyone can do is the best they can, with what they have access to - which is far less harmful and destructive than omnis.

      • Hazor@lemmy.world
        1·
        4 months ago

        I don’t quite follow your argument. Are you suggesting it requires more cropland to make vegan food than meat? If everyone ate crop-derived foods in place of livestock-derived foods, we’d need less cropland, because livestock animals are not perfect energy converters. I.e., it takes more than a pound of feed to get a pound of beef.

        Or are you saying it’s hypocritical of a vegan/vegetarian to eat products of agriculture because of the damage to the natural environment and animals which reside in it? The only non-hypocritical thing for me to do in that case would be to kill myself. Forgive me if I don’t. Perfect is the enemy of good, and so I’ll choose to minimize harm where I can.

  • BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works
    0·
    4 months ago

    Well, carrion would be vegan, no?

    If that animal was to die of natural causes, like sickness, lightning strike, old age, heart attack, etc. it could be considered vegan

    • AnimalsDream@slrpnk.netEnglish
      0·
      4 months ago

      Some do consider it vegan, same as the “freegan” subset. There’s even at least one influencer who is a bit infamous for it But there’s also a few problems with this line of reasoning. It still normalizes the idea of the consumption of animal products, so it’s a slippery slope at best. It’s also not scalable, as soon as probably even a modest proportion of people would adopt such a diet, demand would quickly start to surpass supply which would incentivise the artificial production of more road kill.

      And then there’s just the why? of it. Like if we’re talking about extreme situations like starvation and poverty where there is literally no other choice, okay that would make sense. But otherwise, what is so wrong with eating plants that someone would go out of their way to eat carrion instead? With the likely putrefaction involved we are talking about literal self harm to avoid eating some good ol grains and beans.

      • FelixCress@lemmy.world
        02·
        4 months ago

        normalizes the idea of the consumption of animal products

        Consumption of animal products is normal. For thousands of years.

        • AnimalsDream@slrpnk.netEnglish
          11·
          2 months ago

          I was talking about normalization in the sense of what psychologically feels normal to a given person in question; not about what’s popular. As vegan even the thought of eating an animal product is utterly bizarre and grotesque to me. You gotta take off those blood-tinted glasses to see clearly.