• anarchost@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      If you could operate a series of trolley problems regarding sentience for the average vegan, would a somewhat quantifiable hierarchy arise?

      For example, would a vegan save one human over three pigs, or over 100 pigs?

      If a vegan could use vegan means to prevent the death of all mosquitoes without upsetting the ecology of the planet Earth, but the mosquitoes would then start infecting more humans with hazardous but non-deadly diseases, should the vegan attempt those means?

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        1 year ago

        I can’t speak for other vegans, but as a vegan, I’d pick an animal’s life over a human’s, so your trolly problem is easy for me. Fuck humans, there are over 8 billion of us and we don’t need any more; fewer there are, the better it is for this planet.

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        Specifically it’s about the consent of any sentient beings involved in the production.

        Milk and eggs are fine as long as you’ve acquired them via free market exchange with the animal that produced them. n

        Like, breast milk from a woman is okay for a vegan to eat as long as it wasn’t forcibly taken from her.

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          Which, to be clear, .00001% of human consumed milk doesn’t involve torturing cows and stealing their babies

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        Is this a joke or are you a moron? We forcibly impregnate cows and steal their children… and then do it over and over again until they die

        I’m not vegan, but do you seriously not get how animal suffering works? Go watch Earthlings or Dominion if you’re curious