that's not evidence of understanding personal mortality.

When you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression

i'm not equal with animals. this is just more dehumanization.

that is a speciesist take

speciesism is rational. i wouldn't ask an elephant to engage in a discussion on lemmy.

comparing slaves to animals is what slavers do.

non-human animals feel pain and don’t want to die.

we don't know that any non-human animal understands personal mortality, so we need to clear up an ambiguity in your syntax there. the don't even know if they know they colud die. if you don't know you could want something, to say that you don't want it is almost tautological. we can't say teher is any evidence they want not to die, though.

that's a strawman. i'm raising one possible explanation that you hadn't even considered (much less explored), and there are likely an infinite number of them.

you aren't controlling for every possible alternative. for instance, a less media saturated culture with fewer depictions of anthropomorphism might not have this issue. you're simply choosing to believe it's an inherent problem with the process.

you kind of making a leap of logic though. there may be other explanations for why slaughterhouse workers experience psychological distress. it could be socioeconomic. it may be some other conditioning. your explanation amounts to post hoc ergo propter hoc

surely you can see that what you are constructing is purely an appeal to emotion, and there is not empirical means to test anything you're saying.

I disagree that exploitation is abuse

I'm a person. humans are animals, that is true, but we are distinct in important ways. denying this is dehumanizing.

you are using an expansive definition of "someone" that most people don't recognize and most disagree with.