animal_dude

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by animal_dude 9y ago
> Animals violate the free agency of animals every single day when they eat them for food. Animals also commit infanticide and lick their own buttholes. What we do to animals is not cooperation. It's a holocaust.
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by animal_dude 9y ago
Except it isn't; culture doesn't affect our physiology and biochemistry, thus not relevant to discussions about natural diets.
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by animal_dude 9y ago
> I wonder what proportion of animals would chose non-existence over existence if they could understand such concepts. May I suggest you look at some footage from slaughterhouses to make that determination for yourself? Or, if you'r
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by animal_dude 9y ago
> That way you are not only doing something healthy for yourself and the animals, it's also supporting the local economy in a meaningful way. There is nothing healthy about consuming animals. Not for humans, not for animals, not for
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by animal_dude 9y ago
> Do you truly consider this scenario oppressive? Yes, because you have violated the free agency of animals and their own right to exist unmolested by humans. It's the treatment of sentient creatures as mere commodities, justifying
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by animal_dude 9y ago
> No one needs plants to survive either Completely wrong, and frankly a pretty stupid thing to say. Plants provide the basis for all life on this planet. Without plants, there would be no complete proteins, there would be no essential fa
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by animal_dude 9y ago
> Humans like all life are part of the food chain, and that's just the way things are on this planet. This is not a scientifically tenable statement. It's just based on hearsay and various nonsense. "In the global food web
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by animal_dude 9y ago
> The only way it will change is everyone buys organic or true free range. The costs are too expensive for me to buy all the time Both of those terms are pretty meaningless, and their ineffectual enforcement makes them even less so. The
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by animal_dude 9y ago
> Cows are treated pretty fairly until the end. They are usually grass feed and graze until they fatten them up for slaughter. They have miles and miles of fields to roam. You can find pigs that are treated fairly or are "free range
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by animal_dude 9y ago
> Are you suggesting that we let them die of starvation or simply eliminate them A reasonable person might suggest we not purposefully birth 150 billion+ animals every year just so they can be killed. The "let them starve" argu
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by animal_dude 9y ago
> He claims we aren't adapted for hunting meat, relying solely on physical features to back this claim and ignoring our mental capacity, specifically the capacity for organization and tool use. Tools are a product of culture, not ev