UPDATE: The Unbans are showing up on modlog now.:
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~~I have traded the month-long ban in the many communities for a 6-day ban in vegan@lemmy.dbzero.com, which is a more reasonable ban~~. this ban has also been lifted now. I appreciate the cooperation from the mod over this misunderstanding.
So it seems i've gotten a month-long ban in..... over 30 communities across lemmy.dbzer0.com, sopuli.xyz, lemmy.ca, programming.dev, and several others, for this comment here.
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It's directly replying to a comment saying they can't imagine why anyone thought otherwise about fish feeling pain, which is reasonable. You might notice the quotation marks, because it's satirizing people's mental gymnastics about fishes' pain perception. It was meant in jest, exclusively.
It seems likely that a single mod took this joke wrong and chose to ban me on every community they have control over.
But i was honestly serious. How can they talk about animals feelings when not even looking at plants feelings. Again im 100 percent serious.
10/10 ragebait
Nope. No /s or anything.
Because by eating animals one consumes more plants by proxy. That being said, getting eaten is a core part of many plants lifecycle. Same is true for a lot of animals, but to a lesser extent. On particular for domesticated animals this argument falls apart a little. But they still exist to be eaten and are advantaged evolutionarily if they are good at that. Adverse effects like diseases and pollution do exist.
Some people are gonna give you grief about this, but you raise an interesting point. I was just talking about this the other day with my gf and my son over a vegetarian dinner we were having. There is more and more research about plants be more intelligent (for lack of better word) than we thought before. Still kinda taboo in science circles, but it is being discussed and looking into.
I mean plants do communicate distress, so I can see that. While we haven't evolved to live solely on sunlight, suffering will happen. That we are aware and only take what's needed, with respect seems correct.
You don't even need plants with feelings. Grain fields carry all the field animals like rabbits and rodents. Those animals flee from cleared land into long grass
So as combine harvesters clear the fields the animals are concentrated into smaller and smaller areas
Harvester operators call the last acre 'the bloody acre' due to the number of animals cut up by the harvester blades
You can't eat without animal deaths unless you go to the extreme of just eating fruit you pick yourself
Also the monoculture fields are destroying the land. We need permaculture solutions and there isn't a way to do that without animals to fertilize the land
And whos to say if that means something less then how we feel. Plants are a living being and should be givin as much or as little respect as anything else.
Rocks and water too, imo. Different discussion, different place. Goodnight everyone.