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[-] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 97 points 5 days ago
[-] jerkface@lemmy.ca 84 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

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 3 points 4 days ago
[-] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 2 points 4 days ago

Addictive like water and air are addictive.

[-] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 1 points 4 days ago

Wouldn't you need to decimate the population of cows, pigs, and chickens in order to reduce their environmental impact? This argument always invokes an image of Thanos wiping out half the universe in order to 'save' it, but the people making this argument never seem to be receptive to acknowledging this point and just hand wave this step away.

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[-] inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world 57 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

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 21 points 5 days ago

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

[-] Boxscape@lemmy.sdf.org 33 points 5 days ago

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

[-] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 12 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

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

[-] Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago
[-] WhatYouNeed@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Thought the last mineraterian starved to death last Thursday?

[-] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 11 points 5 days ago

Haha as always, you do what you can

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[-] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago

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

[-] LostXOR@fedia.io 4 points 5 days ago

Time to start eating bacteria now, I guess.

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