[vegans love comparing consuming meat and animal products to the genocide of human beings like honestly the vegan aesthetic]
comparing genocide to genocide, murder to murder, and oppression to oppression—. yeah, we do it because it needs to be done. murdering a nonhuman animal for the sake of your taste buds is no different than murdering a human animal for personal gain.
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Quite a few "nonhuman animals" "murder" other animals, and when we domesticate them, we have to do it for them, or they'll die. Humans are not obligate carnivores, but many are obligate omnivores: they can't fully assimilate protein or iron from vegetable sources.
Do people breed humans specifically for the purpose of this "personal gain?" It's not quite the same. Honestly, while there is a case to be made for vegetarianism (even though I eat meat), this hyperbolic comparison is not helping your cause.
Then why aren't you out in the woods, catching and punishing the teeming masses of murderous cats, wolves, bears, snakes and birds of prey stalking and murdering their fellow animals? It is your own logic that they are equal to humans, after all. Why do you ignore their "murders" while pursuing us for ours? Are you just a misanthrope? Is acceptable for them to pursue their natural diet yet somehow unacceptable for us to pursue ours? Note that any concept of choice is immaterial to this as there are plenty of other omnivorous species who consume meat as well as innumerable strictly carnivorous species.
++"murdering a nonhuman animal for the sake of your taste buds"
BZZZT! Wrong! I don't do it for the sake of my taste buds. I do it for the sake of my health. If I go without meat for a few days I begin to get weak & sluggish and need more sleep. That meat tastes delicious just makes it all the better.
And your name is a lie; you are quite clearly not a very happy person. Unless the idea of sharing a world with billions of people you consider to be genocidal monsters makes you happy, anyway. I suppose it might, at that. You've already proven that you're a fucking nutjob.
What about the murder of vegetable life? Or is the wholesale slaughter of garden greens okay because they don't have eyes, ears and noses?
Cue up the Arrogant Worms' "Carrot Juice is Murder," boys!
Some scientists suggest that plants may exhibit "pain" by releasing gases when distressed. If correct, you'd better stop eating vegetables and fruit if you valued all life. You might as well stop eating, just in case.
Seeing as how there are carnivores, and we have traits of omnivores. I have no objection to eating meat.
Now, I would object to eating something as intelligent as say, a dog or parrot. Supposing we did live in a world with 2 human intelligence level species, it would be unethical for 1 to eat the other.
But extending that down to the level of cows and chickens is a bit much.
murdering a nonhuman animal for the sake of your taste buds is no different than murdering a human animal for personal gain.
Well, aside from the fact that one of them is a human and can actually perceive the implications of being murdered therefore making it an objectively superior animal.
Am a lifelong meat-eater who is honestly creeped out by how much like virulent racists the pro-meat commenters on this site sound. Of course animals have feelings and can be oppressed!
Arguing that humans are inherently superior and that is why it is unacceptable to kill each other is creepy racist logic, just applied in a more palateable context. Under that argument, 'cruelty to animals' is a made-up crime that should never be prosecuted. It makes *just* as much sense to say that our higher cognition makes us responsible for not inflicting cruelty and death, since we understand what harm we do. Since we are particularly capable of sympathizing with anything capable of suffering, and plenty of things that aren't but vaguely simulate it. Like frigging Rhoombas . People pity stuck Rhoombas all the time.
...and parrots are not smarter than cows just because they can make word sounds. Wow. Cattle have minds and personalities and emotional reactions to stimuli, stupid as they are, and the fact that I eat them while knowing this has been the defining moral struggle of my existence.
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