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[–] flora_explora@beehaw.org 1 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

Vegetarians aren't real anyways because they still support mass murder of animals! (partly /s)

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 1 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Just curious, how are they doing that?

[–] flora_explora@beehaw.org 2 points 2 hours ago

Eating eggs -> financially supporting a system where male chicks get either immediately killed after birth or more rarely are later killed for their meat. Also it is supporting a system where chickens are bred to produce as many eggs as fast as possible, which means a life of torture to them

Drinking milk -> financially supporting a system where cows are continuously impregnated against their will and where their offspring is immediately taken from them and killed for their meat (I think this is done yearly). Also it is supporting a system where cows are bred to produce as much milk as fast as possible, which means a life of torture to them

There are certainly many more atrocities happening, but I'm trying not to think too often of that stuff

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I would guess by eating diary, eggs, leather, etc. I heard this take just yesterday, and I can see a point, because most animal industries don't treat animals well even when it's not about killing the animal

[–] Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

leather is mainly a waste product, no one actually kills animals for their skins (except animals that are valuable to humans only for their skin but those are the exception and in many places is even an illegal practice), so idk if i would count the use of leather :shrug: