• Holzkohlen@feddit.de
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    1 month ago

    Pretty sure it literally is not murder, since that requires killing another human. I do love animals, but I will never agree to put animals and humans on the same level. I don’t want animals to suffer and die horribly cruel deaths, but other than that I do not care. I do not eat much meat nowadays, but that is because meat is bad for the environment. I care a LOT more about that, then about animals being killed.

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      1 month ago

      Definitions are perscriptive, not descriptive.

      Animals are moral agents, it is murder. It is unnecesary and cruel to forcefully breed and take lives for the sake of taste.

      They have desires, ability to suffer, ability to love, build social bonds and connections. They don’t deserve to die.

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        They have desires, ability to suffer, ability to love, build social bonds and connections. They don’t deserve to die.

        True but still not murder. You can use words to mean just what you choose them to mean if you please but murder requires a human victim

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          We’re forcefully enslaving, breeding, and killing billions annually. Theres a difference from killing and dying naturally.

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                1 month ago

                i didn’t say it’s good. if anyone is claiming that natural things are good, it is you, by claiming something you want to paint as bad is unnatural.

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        1 month ago

        It is unnecesary and cruel to forcefully breed and take lives for the sake of taste

        most livestock is bred and killed for profit.

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              They’re paid because there is demand for their bloodshed and torture. Supply and demand. If consumers stopped demanding it the supply would diminish

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                1 month ago

                supply and demand isn’t a magic phrase that makes your theory true. there is no reason to believe animal husbandry will ever stop before people are extinct.

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                  Each person’s purchases directly lead to consequences. Paying for animal products kills over 200 animals a year per person who does it reguarly. Even if animal abuse will never end it doesn’t mean we should empower or continue supporting it. Especially 3 times a day.