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[–] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 109 points 1 month ago (26 children)
[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 94 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (65 children)

Vegans consume fewer plants than anyone else. It takes a LOT of plants to raise a cow, pig, or chicken. From an economic point of view, meat is a way of refining mountains of cheap, plentiful, safe plant products into a scarce, harmful and addictive luxury product. This comes up a lot, you'd be amazed how many plants rights activists your average vegan runs into.

[–] Pieisawesome@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 4 points 1 month ago

Addictive like water and air are addictive.

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[–] inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world 69 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (43 children)

If you think pigs, chickens and cows have the same level of awareness and perception as broccoli, tomatoes or potatoes than you're the potato.

Humans have to eat and with the exception of a few minerals like salt, everything edible to humans is alive on some level. Vegansisn is making an ethical choice about reducing what causes the most pain fear and suffering in another. If I were to develop cancer, a tape worm or a virus should I also allow those living things to thrive as well or does "Uh, now what?" also apply to antibiotics?

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[–] RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com 20 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I hope they like stones. Hmmm, those crunchy minerals!

[–] Boxscape@lemmy.sdf.org 35 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I hope they like stones. Hmmm, those crunchy minerals!

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

They look like big, good, strong hands, don't they

[–] Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago
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[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Haha as always, you do what you can

[–] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Won't someone think of the plants feelings?!?

[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Eat fruits, the plants give those to you specifically to eat.

[–] FlowVoid@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

In the same way that cultists give human sacrifices to Cthulhu specifically to eat.

I'm pretty sure the fruits are screaming too.

[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (22 children)

The whole deal is that we get to eat the fruit, and in return we provide the seeds within with a nice nitrogen-rich deposition nice and far from the parent plant.

It's not a death cult, it's a sex cult. The fruits might be screaming, but not in pain

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[–] heraplem@leminal.space 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

What? The fact that plants physically react to being cut has absolutely no bearing on whether they have conscious experience.

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[–] LostXOR@fedia.io 4 points 1 month ago (8 children)

Time to start eating bacteria now, I guess.

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