• Melobol@lemmy.ml
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    2 days ago

    Why all the hate downvotes for the post?
    It was new to me, and it wasn’t that horrible. And someone took their time to share it with the community.

    • Maven (famous)@lemmy.zip
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      22 hours ago

      To add to what others have said, this user is a known spammer that just reposts things from reddit without changing anything.

    • PuddleOfKittens@sh.itjust.works
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      2 days ago

      Some anti-vegans legitimately believe that shit (or pretend to, to piss off vegans), it’s not just a joke and it’s the stupidest argument you’ve ever heard.

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        This reminds me of the very old picture with cows wearing signs saying: eat more chicken.
        That’s why it doesn’t bother me. If anyone really takes this seriously it is not the joke’s fault. Stupid people will be stupid.
        Btw why the heck are there anti-vegans? What kinda mind twister is this world?

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          If anyone really takes this seriously it is not the joke’s fault.

          Nobody is taking it seriously; it’s basically a dogwhistle to continue abusing animals and shitting on people who don’t want to contribute to unnecessary suffering.

          You get to hide behind the mask of “vegans can’t take a joke” when your ‘joke’ is basically just a list of uninformed opinions to continue animal abuse.

  • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
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    At my most extreme, I only ate things which were botanically considered fruits. Didn’t even eat lettuce. They kinda have a point, only eat the parts the plants give to you consensually.

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      That’s a territory apart from veganism. Plants can’t think and they don’t feel pain, because they don’t have brains or nervous systems. This isn’t a difference in degree; it’s a difference in kind. I’m not saying those people are wrong, but as a moral stance it isn’t a logical extension of veganism.

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        20 hours ago

        Plants can’t think and they don’t feel pain

        In my view plants can “feel pain”. If you break a wig off a branch the tree will react to it, start trying to heal the damage, sometimes redirect growth to other branches that weren’t damaged. If you cut through its bark it will send coagulants to stop the sap loss, then try to regenerate the tissues. Basically if you damage a part of it it reacts in different ways to mitigate or avoid it, which is fundamentally what pain is.

        I won’t claim they can think but I also wouldn’t dismiss that right away. Of course this strongly depends on what we mean by “thinking” but if you believe that individual ants can think, some plants are not that far behind in terms of decision-making.

        All that said, veganism is still obviously correct within that framework, because eating animal products causes more suffering even to plants then just eating plants directly.

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        By extension what about the millions of bacteria they kill if they get sick and take antibiotics? Vor any other number of things of that nature.