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Justifying one thing because it's a necessary component of another unnecessary thing... what logical fallacy is that? (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The fact that any calves in the dairy industry are killed for veal, or even for beef (at only a few years older, still a fraction of their natural lifespan), is of course a harm, whether you agree with it or not. Killing an animal is harming them, no matter if they're a baby animal or a few-year-old animal.

ok....

It's a harm toward animals that some might justify as a necessary component of dairy production, which it is. But

no, it's not.

dairy production itself isn't necessary. And that was the crux of the fallacy I'm alluding to.

my first comment was acknowledging that it's just an example.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (64 children)

It's absolutely necessary to kill cattle for meat in the dairy industry. It would not be financially viable otherwise, and small-scale farms that try to avoid this practice can't provide enough dairy to feed the human population if they're consuming dairy; and they still involve other unavoidable cruelties inherent in taking the milk designed for calves, separating them and selectively breeding cows to overproduce milk, docking and debudding them, etc etc.

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