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You're constructing a vegan strawman here. Ethical veganism is about reducing harm to animals. You can't harm a hypothetical chicken that was never born. Are y
by malfist 5y ago
You're constructing a vegan strawman here. Ethical veganism is about reducing harm to animals. You can't harm a hypothetical chicken that was never born.
Are you seriously suggesting torturing and slaughtering animals is a better alternative to a world where that doesn't happen and that might have less chickens?
- traviswt 5y agoJust think through the “levels” of chicken life: 1. Let die naturally of old age 2. Slaughter after a productive life 3. Slaughter mid life because disease 4. Slaughter mid life because money (e.g., price of feed) 5. Slaughter/cull young for sexing 6. Use fertilized eggs 7. Prevent fertilization, use unfertilized 8. Eliminate laying of eggs Prevention of life is death in the limit.
- malfist 5y ago
- hnlmorg 5y agoPeople make the same argument for why women can’t chose what happens to their own bodies (eg rape victims opting for abortion). And some people make the same arguments against contraception too. In all cases, yours and the above, I find the argument less than compelling because life isn’t something that exists prior to birth; you’re not denying a soul from physical form because you happen to farm fewer chickens. Arguing that the absence of life is the same as death is really just a clever way of justifying selfish ideals.