cleanprairiedog

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

i hear what you're saying. my goal is to get more engagement with animal rights content. and also raise awareness about how cruel foie gras is.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (3 children)

people who think animal abuse is wrong

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

there’s one argument here: freedom over your own body.

Animals should have freedom over their bodies too. It's hypocritical to be pro-choice, but then force cows to have arms shoved up their anus to be artificially inseminated for dairy products by buying their secretions. It's hypocritical to think you deserve total control over an animal's body for taste pleasure. Be vegan.

There are 80 billion land animals killed for trivial, unnecessary reasons every year. Stop breastfeeding off of another species in adulthood and paying for chicks to be thrown in blenders. That's fucking weird.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Wouldn't a being that felt pain or any other feeling automatically know they exist?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Humans are animals. Why doesn't it make sense to protect the rights of beings that can feel and know they exist over biological material that can't feel or know it exists?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (10 children)

I saw this German documentary about the egg industry.

They ship the males out of country where they are raised in sheds, then sold to Africa.

I think the best solution is to not buy eggs. A good replacement is mung bean flour. It has similar nutrition and flavor, can be obtained cheaply, and spares chickens from being exploited by humans.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (3 children)

The vast majority of aborted fetuses are not sentient. Sentience is the ability to know oneself exists through feeling. Yet in the US, there are laws protecting insensate biological material but not sentient male chicks ground up alive in the egg industry. I see the moral value of a day old chick as far more than a 14 week fetus since the male chick has sentience and can feel pain while a 14 week old fetus cannot.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (16 children)

Ideally, these male chicks could be taken to an animal sanctuaries. With the scale of the industry and the rarity of farmed animal sanctuaries, it wouldn't be possible for all of them. For the ones that can be rescued, life on a sanctuary is much better than in the wild or on a farm in a dark shed.

 
[–] [email protected] -2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Say there was a mentally disabled human who did not recognize themselves in a mirror. Would it be ethical to jam metal pipes down their throats and force feed them until their livers become diseased? Or cut their throats and tear their livers out? If not, why is it OK to do this to ducks and geese?

[–] [email protected] -2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Farmed animals are slaves to humans

[–] [email protected] -2 points 10 months ago (6 children)

Black people were once considered animals by slave owners and were given no rights. People who sold slaves were just following the laws of supply and demand too. The market isn't a great arbiter of morality, there's plenty of horrible things people will pay for, including the diseased livers of tortured ducks and geese. Doesn't make the product ethical just because someone will pay for it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

It's pronounced cash. It's a dumb name for the restaurant. It's a restaurant in Little Rock, Ark. Overpriced, animal abusing establishment.

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