> Animals violate the free agency of animals every single day when they eat them for food. Animals also commit infanticide and lick their own buttholes. What we do to animals is not cooperation. It's a holocaust.
Except it isn't; culture doesn't affect our physiology and biochemistry, thus not relevant to discussions about natural diets.
> I wonder what proportion of animals would chose non-existence over existence if they could understand such concepts. May I suggest you look at some footage from slaughterhouses to make that determination for yourself?…
> That way you are not only doing something healthy for yourself and the animals, it's also supporting the local economy in a meaningful way. There is nothing healthy about consuming animals. Not for humans, not for…
> Do you truly consider this scenario oppressive? Yes, because you have violated the free agency of animals and their own right to exist unmolested by humans. It's the treatment of sentient creatures as mere…
> No one needs plants to survive either Completely wrong, and frankly a pretty stupid thing to say. Plants provide the basis for all life on this planet. Without plants, there would be no complete proteins, there would…
> Humans like all life are part of the food chain, and that's just the way things are on this planet. This is not a scientifically tenable statement. It's just based on hearsay and various nonsense. "In the global food…
> The only way it will change is everyone buys organic or true free range. The costs are too expensive for me to buy all the time Both of those terms are pretty meaningless, and their ineffectual enforcement makes them…
> Cows are treated pretty fairly until the end. They are usually grass feed and graze until they fatten them up for slaughter. They have miles and miles of fields to roam. You can find pigs that are treated fairly or…
> Are you suggesting that we let them die of starvation or simply eliminate them A reasonable person might suggest we not purposefully birth 150 billion+ animals every year just so they can be killed. The "let them…
> He claims we aren't adapted for hunting meat, relying solely on physical features to back this claim and ignoring our mental capacity, specifically the capacity for organization and tool use. Tools are a product of…
> Animals violate the free agency of animals every single day when they eat them for food. Animals also commit infanticide and lick their own buttholes. What we do to animals is not cooperation. It's a holocaust.
Except it isn't; culture doesn't affect our physiology and biochemistry, thus not relevant to discussions about natural diets.
> I wonder what proportion of animals would chose non-existence over existence if they could understand such concepts. May I suggest you look at some footage from slaughterhouses to make that determination for yourself?…
> That way you are not only doing something healthy for yourself and the animals, it's also supporting the local economy in a meaningful way. There is nothing healthy about consuming animals. Not for humans, not for…
> Do you truly consider this scenario oppressive? Yes, because you have violated the free agency of animals and their own right to exist unmolested by humans. It's the treatment of sentient creatures as mere…
> No one needs plants to survive either Completely wrong, and frankly a pretty stupid thing to say. Plants provide the basis for all life on this planet. Without plants, there would be no complete proteins, there would…
> Humans like all life are part of the food chain, and that's just the way things are on this planet. This is not a scientifically tenable statement. It's just based on hearsay and various nonsense. "In the global food…
> The only way it will change is everyone buys organic or true free range. The costs are too expensive for me to buy all the time Both of those terms are pretty meaningless, and their ineffectual enforcement makes them…
> Cows are treated pretty fairly until the end. They are usually grass feed and graze until they fatten them up for slaughter. They have miles and miles of fields to roam. You can find pigs that are treated fairly or…
> Are you suggesting that we let them die of starvation or simply eliminate them A reasonable person might suggest we not purposefully birth 150 billion+ animals every year just so they can be killed. The "let them…
> He claims we aren't adapted for hunting meat, relying solely on physical features to back this claim and ignoring our mental capacity, specifically the capacity for organization and tool use. Tools are a product of…