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[-] Senokir@lemmy.world 16 points 7 months ago

Unfortunately that is simply not true. If you had to take a guess, how long does a chicken live that is born into the animal agriculture industry and what does its life look like? Go watch Dominion ( https://youtu.be/LQRAfJyEsko ) and learn what modern animal agriculture looks like because I promise you it is not a life free of abuse where they are safer than they would be in the wild with plenty of food to eat. If you are paying for animal products then you are not only paying for the animal to be murdered but are also paying for the abuse that it suffered for its entire short life before that point.

Also I'd definitely argue that murder is a form of abuse. Defined as: "treat (a person or an animal) with cruelty or violence, especially regularly or repeatedly." If you wanted to discuss semantics it would be more accurate to say that it is impossible to murder an animal since the most common definition would probably be "the unlawful premeditated killing of one human being by another". There is a second more loose definition though that uses the language "kill (someone) unlawfully and with premeditation". I would argue that an animal IS a "someone" as they are an individual with their own unique perception of the world. As such I do believe that it is possible to murder an animal. That being said, it is completely irrelevant to the morality of what is happening whether we call it murder or abuse or we come up with all new words to describe what's happening. No matter what you call it, we are creating unfathomable amounts of completely unnecessary suffering by forcefully breeding (aka raping) animals and forcing them to live unimaginably awful lives which are ended very very prematurely because money and yummy.

[-] davepleasebehave@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

it's definitely abuse, as you are harming something for your own pleasure.

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