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Plants Really Do 'Scream'. We've Simply Never Heard Them Until Now
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2024-11-11
Vegans: .. uh.. now what?
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.
…addictive?
Addictive like water and air are addictive.
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.
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?
I hope they like stones. Hmmm, those crunchy minerals!
They look like big, good, strong hands, don't they
Goron cuisine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pica_(disorder)
Thought the last mineraterian starved to death last Thursday?
Haha as always, you do what you can
Eat fruits, the plants give those to you specifically to eat.
Time to start eating bacteria now, I guess.