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Pigs rescued from fire later served as sausage to firefighters

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Pewsey firefighters rescued the 18 piglets and two sows from a blaze after 60 tons of hay caught fire at a farm in Wiltshire in February.
Six months later, farmer Rachel Rivers invited the firefighters back to feed on sausages made from the rescued pigs.
"I wanted to thank them. I promised them at the time I'd bring down some sausages for them, which they were all pleased about," Rivers told the Telegraph.
While Rivers was glad the firefighters enjoyed the meal, she admitted the bizarre show of gratitude would likely be unpopular with animal lovers.
"I'm sure vegetarians will hate this," she said.
Both Rivers and the firefighters received some backlash regarding the sausages, but the farmer said the act was standard practice.
"This is just what we do - we are not an animal sanctuary. We give the pigs the best opportunity and the best life they could have for six months," she said. "They won't be kept inside. They are outdoors and fed with organic food which is grown on the farm."

https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2017/08/23/Rescued-piglets-served-to-UK-firefighters-as-sausage/7931503497455/
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This is silly!
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They were going to be slaughtered, barn fire or no, at least they got to have a pretty good life before hand and didn't die in an inferno.
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50 billion chickens killed per year because you like chicken flesh
at least 1 billion male chicks (ground up alive) because you like eggs
1 billion pigs slaughtered per year because bacon amirite hahahaha BACON THOUGH
1-2.8 trillion fish because you like their flesh
703 billion to 2.39 trillion silkworms because you like silk
1 to 6.5 trillion bees enslaved because you like bee vomit
300 million cows killed per year because you like milk and cow flesh
>Obviously this is a nightmare. But I don't even eat that much meat! And I'm a good person in other ways.

The average meat eater will consume 2000 animals in their lifetime... and their retirement years will be filled with heart disease, cancer, and diabetes.

Or you could just eat fucking plants like you were born to. Honestly, I thought more people wouldn't kill animals for fear of God. You really think you can live your entire life, killing animals every day without consequence? Better hope there is no judgement waiting for you.
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>>170951
>People forget farm animals are for food
I partially blame Disney for making people forget that animals aren't people, they dont sing or dance, they dont think complex thoughts. If it werent for the stewardship of man nearly all of them (ironically except pigs) would vanish.
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>>170973
humans are omnivores anything else is unnatural and unhealthy.
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>>170973
>Honestly, I thought more people wouldn't kill animals for fear of God.

The same God that regularly demanded animal sacrifices?
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>>170980
Before the autism brigade comes in, i mean american barnyard animals, mostly cattle and chickens
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>>170973
>Or you could just eat fucking plants like you were born to

Were this true, we would not have incisors or canine teeth. It is, therefore, a misrepresentation at best. Your opinions are excused.
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>>170994
No Jon, you are the autisms.
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>>170973
Is that all? Those are amateur numbers, we gotta pump those numbers up.
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>>170983
then why does dietary cholesterol (found in animal products) kill us?

Do you really not know about heart disease or what

>>170986
I meant a real God. You don't believe in anything like that of course.

>>171058
ok. I really hope you smarten up before the heart disease (which even meat eating children have signs of) starts to effect your body.

Remember people that it's never too late to change to a healthier diet. Even people dying of cancer can REVERSE their disease with a whole food vegan diet.

>>171062
you aren't funny
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>>171062
>Is that all?
and actually no, it's not all. I didn't include a lot of numbers because you people have a hard time grasping ethical concepts as it is.

Really the silkworm stat was probably enough for you mindless buffoons to get distracted.

>I don't even eat silkworms LOL so there
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>>171075
>I meant a real God. You don't believe in anything like that of course.
Tell me, if this "real god" that apparently only you know about is so disapproving of meat consumption, why did he create carnivores and omnivores at all? You think such a god will condemn us for humanely slaughtering other animals for food when he designed predators that rip the flesh from their prey as they thrash and bleat in agony?

>Even people dying of cancer can REVERSE their disease with a whole food vegan diet.
Oh, you're a complete loon. Why didn't you say so? That woo bullshit sure didn't save Steve Jobs, did it?
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>>170973
>Honestly, I thought more people wouldn't kill animals for fear of God.
Genesis states multiple times that god gave us animals for food. At its most strict, the old testament limited it to certain animals but always stated the animals are there for our consumption. The new testament has multiple passage concerning the lifting of these dietary restrictions to any meat as long as it isnt human. To say god would punish humans for eating meat is absurd unless you cherrypick a single verse (Romans 14:21)

>Genesis 1:29, 9:3
>Leviticus 11:1-47, 19:26
>Romans 14:2-3
>Acts 10:15
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>>170973
Tell me, are you the nutjob posting all that Titanic crap in /n/ or did a bunch of you breach the containment at a funny farm recently?
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>>170951
Did the fear make it taste better?
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>>171083
your questions bore me

a whole food vegan diet is the ONLY diet proven to reverse heart disease. Your ignorance is shameful. There is no excuse for being this uninformed when you're sitting at a computer discussing this very topic.

please don't take my advice and just die of cancer already. Don't worry! Processed meat is A-OK.
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>>171086
why are you talking about the bible?

can you not imagine a perfect God? Not a flawed one like you refer to. I thought it was a natural phenomenon for humans to imagine an ethical God, but maybe not.

Is that is why you are so immoral? That would make sense. There is no other explanation for total lack of morality in the carnists mind. Surely, you must be defective. Maybe you already have brain cancer?
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>>171095
>Shifting the goal posts this hard

The liberal rears his head and roars "BUT WHY SHOULD I ENJOY WHAT I EAT? I WANT TO LIVE FOREVER ON BEANS AND BEETS."
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>>171087
Yeah it's just me I'm the only one.

I also invested 3.3 trillion to encourage the end animal of slaughter.

https://www.plantbasednews.org/post/investors-councils-and-organizations-all-calling-for-switch-to-plant-based-diet

I did that all on my own, pretty cool huh? Just kidding you fucking moron, veganism is on the rise.

Why are you still supporting this insanity? Is your mind so weak that you can simply "not think" about what's on your plate?

I don't get that. I tried to ignore animal suffering after I saw those slaughter house videos. But I couldn't forget what meat was. How can you support something which causes so much agony?

Really I am curious as to how you people can eat animal flesh several times a day for decades without a second though. Unbelievable!
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>>171098
>Really I am curious as to how you people can eat animal flesh several times a day for decades without a second though.
Pretty easily, tbh.
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>>171097
Your questions are retarded bro. Honestly I was trying to be nice.

You simply don't have the mental capacity for a conversation about ethics.

Call me dismissive or rude or whatever, but it's the truth.

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>>171100
ignorance is bliss. and stupidity aids ignorance.

At this point I am convinced that veganism is simply a measure of intelligence. You either grasp right and wrong or you have yet to evolve.
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>>171103
New study: Rabbits smarter than dolphins

Rabbits understand the suffering of the poor wolf and stick to a vegan diet so they only have to harm the billions of bacterium instead of other creatures.

Dolphins, being malicious creatures, eat FISH!

How awful!
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>>171105
This just in! Trees are vile creatures who STEAL sunlight and WATER from the harmless planet! All they do is spit poisonous gas as an insult given for their thievery!
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>>171105
>>171107

You see, there is no argument against veganism.

What even is this shit supposed to be.

>HURR BACTERIA THAT'S WHY I EAT MEAT EVERY MEAL

This is how much carnist's have thought about their actions. Truly, you are a thoughtless breed.
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>>171108
I'm not here to change your mind, fam. I'm here to poke fun at the child throwing a tantrum while soiling itself.
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>>171110
>I'm not here to change your mind
That's because you're a coward with no insight to offer.

At least be funny if that's your goal.
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>>171113
>Be funny

I'm the one laughing.
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>>171114
good one
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>>170973
>>171075
>>171076
>>171095
>>171098
>>171103
>>171108
>>171113
So how much does Whole Foods pay you to shitpost here?
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>>171133
stop killing animals

it is that fucking simple you heartless piece of shit
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>>171137
You're right, I'm done eating meat of animals, who knows what kind of diet they might have been fed before slaughter.

Maybe I should start eating human vegans, after all, they are so full of vitamins, unclogged veins full of delicious blood, never before tainted with animal fat.

That decides it, I will never kill another weak, defenseless animal, instead I will only kill weak, defenseless vegans.
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>>171138
You might be a genius.
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>>171138
Meat from any animal has saturated fat, cholesterol.

It doesn't matter what kind of diet an animal eats, you imbecile. That's the animal's revenge.

Can you make a joke without displaying your ignorance?
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>>171140
No, I'm an ignorant imbecile who eats meat, you already stated that multiple times.

Fucking vegans man, just going on and on, repeating thenselves like a broken record player.
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>>171142
you are also heartless. that's the more important part.

because even imbeciles can understand that killing is wrong. you just don't care.
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>>170973
plants are alive and therefore have the right to live just as well as animals
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>>171143
>Being heartless
>Can't have heart disease due to meat consumption
>Eat all the freaking meat you can muster
>????
>Profit
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>>171140
Adam ruins everything said sugar was what caused heart disease. That companies fudged the numbers to blame fat.
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>>171161
This. If you weren't a monster you would be a fruitarian but even then the microbes on and in the fruit are getting slaughtered by the tens of millions with every bight...you monster.
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>>171161
It's like when you become vegan, it becomes your job to hear the stupidest shit imaginable

>>171164
lol

>>171165
Which is worse?

150 million to 1 billion humans killed in all human wars.

OR

1 billion pigs killed per year.
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>>171171
>150 million to 1 billion humans killed in all human wars.
is worse
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ITT: what in tarnation

Who knew anybody could care harder than diamonds about things that will never care about them?
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>>171098
>How can you support something which causes so much agony?
To get a reaction out of people like you. ;-)
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animals can't feel pain, prove me wrong
protip: you can't
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>>171098
>Really I am curious as to how you people can eat animal flesh several times a day for decades without a second though. Unbelievable!
It's pretty tasty.

I don't even give a fuck about all the human suffering in the world, why would I care about animals?
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>>171192
you're just too stupid to help

>>171199
this perfectly sums up the carnist argument.
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There will never be enough change to stop people from eating meat. It's something that's been ingrained in humans for centuries. And changing your diet, or convincing a few others to do likewise, will never have any impact on the continuously thriving agricultural industry.

Suffering is a given where life exists. Going through extra efforts to theoretically prevent the suffering of a thousand animals that only knew a farm will have no real effect on greater issues, like the sustainability of food distribution in the first place.

I have nothing against vegans, but there's no point in calling people heartless when people will always put their own species and themselves above other animals, as the apex predator.
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>>171192
are you serious?
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>>171199
Honestly I would probably eat cooked and prepared humans, too, if they were offered.
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>>171075
>people dying of cancer can REVERSE their disease with a whole food vegan diet

Suuuuure it does. You wanna go down that road?
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>>170951
>Farming and ranching SOP makes national news

Have urbanites really become this divorced from reality? Even in 4H and FFA for kids, it's traditional for kids to give sausages, pork steaks, bacon and stuff to the people who helped them out with buying or raising an animal once it gets slaughtered.

It's literally the same thing as old ladies handing out jars of apricot jam or pecan pies at Christmas to boys that helped them with orchard work that year.
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>>170973
1. chiken is delicious
2. chikens only lay eggs when males nearby so why kill them?(not sure if true but what i was told)
3. fish is good source of vitimins
4. rather have us run around naked?
5. bee vomit is a bi-product we techicaly eating bee shit for all we know, who is honestly gonna miss someone eating thier shit?
6.i love me some burgers

>eat plants like we were born too.
completely false as humans we are omnivorous we need to eat meat to get nutrients plants cannot provide alone, if you honestly are butt hurt about how much meat people eat maby they should stop stuffing 7 whole turkeys down their gullet and only intake whats needed.

random fact: cows produce more methane that is actually harmful to the atmosphere and is recommended moving diet towards chicken
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guys can we stop arguing like retards who cares if you eat meat or not no one is going to get convinced to change their mind

also, based firefighters
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>>170973
DERICIOUS
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>>170951
Out of the fire, into the grill.
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>>171171
Its actually true. Sugar is a bigger factor in heart diseases and clogging arteries than fat and cholesterol. Especially fructose
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>>171208
The average meat eater will consume like 7000 animals in their lifetime?

That's a huge number. And its 100% your choice to kill them or not.
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>>171248
Lol
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>>170973
>1-2.8 trillion fish because you like their flesh
>703 billion to 2.39 trillion silkworms because you like silk
>1 to 6.5 trillion bees enslaved because you like bee vomit
literally nothing wrong with these
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>>171225
yeah

https://nutritionfacts.org/?fwp_search=cancer+reverse&fwp_content_type=video

heart disease, cancer, and diabetes are totally reversible with a VEGAN WHOLE FOOD diet

read a fuckin book

and processed meat is a class 1 carcinogen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_IARC_Group_1_carcinogens

...yet you still eat it because you're a savage hahaha
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>>171233
>1. chiken is delicious
try some plain chicken you idiot

without the breading and ketchup


>2. chikens only lay eggs when males nearby so why kill them?(not sure if true but what i was told)
ok, here I am replying to the stupidest shit imaginable again.

the baby male chickens are ground up alive you ignorant piece of shit. this is not controversial. it's a fact.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/male-chicks-ground-up-alive-at-egg-hatcheries-1.823644


>3. fish is good source of vitimins
and pollutants. the ocean is trashed. why not get your vitamins without saturated fat, cholesterol, and pollutants?

>4. rather have us run around naked?
yeah, you fucking moron. jesus christ.


>5. bee vomit is a bi-product we techicaly eating bee shit for all we know, who is honestly gonna miss someone eating thier shit?
you got me there, that was a brilliant retort. you can eat their vomit/shit if you really want, disgusting freak.


>6.i love me some burgers
let me know how to like recovering from the heart attack. it'll help you feel better if you blame your genetics.

>humans are omnivorous

then why does eating cholesterol kill us?

https://nutritionfacts.org/video/how-do-we-know-that-cholesterol-causes-heart-disease/

why does cholesterol feed breast cancer cells?

https://nutritionfacts.org/video/cholesterol-feeds-breast-cancer-cells/

You ignorant bastard.
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>>171266
so you admit there is something wrong with the slaughter of cows, chicken, and pigs?

You can stop killing them any time! Buy a can of beans next time, instead of the meat. Since you obviously understand that it's wrong.
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>>171140
Saturated fat is the human brain's preferred energy source. Ponder that for a few minutes you self righteous faggot
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>>171310
no, it's glucose. you ignorant peice of garbage. take a basic biology course.
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http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1040618213006198

http://www.npr.org/2010/08/02/128849908/food-for-thought-meat-based-diet-made-us-smarter

http://www.pnas.org/content/97/25/13506.full

http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/300092

http://time.com/4252373/meat-eating-veganism-evolution/

http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2008/04/eating-meat-led-to-smaller-stomachs-bigger-brains/

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/cooking-up-bigger-brains/
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>>171310
even if that were true, would that justify eating absurd amounts of saturated fat?

Your body needs extremely small amounts of fat AND it holds on to that fat very well.

People hear that we need fatty acids to live, and think OK I NEED BACON HAHAHAHA but that's wrong you fucking moron, you just need broccoli and leafy greens.

>hurr but plants don't have any protons hurrr

this has got to be coming soon
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http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v531/n7595/full/nature16990.html?foxtrotcallback=true
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>>171314

We need vitamin b12 to live you can't get that from plants
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>>171313
yeah humans did lots of terrible shit while evolving. humans also evolved raping and murdering. are you a caveman, or a human being?

are these practices we should keep around, or are they caveman tactics which are outdated in a civilized world?

these are rhetorical questions.
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>>171316
That's why you have to kill animals for every meal?

You can't just fortified foods, or take a supplement once every 2 weeks?

B12 comes from bacteria BTW. the only reason meat has it is because it's so filthy. I choose to get my b12 is non-risky ways.
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http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2017/08/09/vegetarian-depression-meat-study/
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>>171320
is that all you've got? whole food vegan diets help fight depression. we have a wealth of scientific evidence supporting this.

https://nutritionfacts.org/video/anti-inflammatory-diet-for-depression/

https://nutritionfacts.org/video/antioxidants-and-depression/

https://nutritionfacts.org/video/fish-consumption-and-suicide/

https://nutritionfacts.org/video/plant-based-diets-for-improved-mood-and-productivity/

https://nutritionfacts.org/video/best-food-for-antidepressant-induced-sexual-dysfunction/

https://nutritionfacts.org/video/fighting-the-blues-with-greens-mao-inhibitors-in-plants/

https://nutritionfacts.org/video/saffron-vs-prozac/

https://nutritionfacts.org/video/gut-feelings-probiotics-and-mental-health/
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>>171321
>https://nutritionfacts.org/video/saffron-vs-prozac/
this one here is great. saffron is just as good as prozac WITHOUT sexual side effects.

that means saffron(a plant) is even better at fighting depression than prozac..

show me a piece of animal flesh doing something like that.
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>>171237
Fuck you I love eating meat. And those Firefighters are Heros!
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>>171323

I would love if you cared about the death and suffering you cause.
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I'm okay with a plant based diet as long as it is GMO that is the only way to feed our increasing population on earth. Also would not mind cloned lab grown meat as it is cruelty free.
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>>171058
Lol muh canine teeth. Have you seen a lion with real canine teeth?

Also have you seen a hippo as well? Some of the largest teeth in an animal and they are herbivores.

You are truly a moron.
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>>171330
There's something about this topic that brings out the most absurd remarks.

I wonder sometimes if they're just baiting someone to call them a moron, so that they can label vegans as assholes and therefore invalid.
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>>171321
>8 links to the blog of some quack that doesnt even read half the studies he makes videos on
>Literally named the vegan research institute until 2012
>Contradictory evidence? Naw just gonna keep cherrypicking data from studies that literally say the opposite of what Im claiming they say
My favorite was when he claimed a vegan diet will cure kidney disease, based on a study that states that jyst switching to low fat dairy does the same. But dont take my word for it. Lets hear what actual doctors think of his quackery
http://sciencebasedmedicine.org/death-as-a-foodborne-illness-curable-by-veganism/
>>171322
This gem, based on 2 studies, neither checking for severe depression (the primary disorder prozac is prescribed for) and neither state anything about side effects differing in any meaningful way from prozac. The first study is about PMS and the second is "mild to moderate" and only a small clinical trial (40 people), not the large scale needed to get the FDA on board. Literally states at the end that a large scale trial is needed to confirm any of the findings.
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>>171332
I don't really like the assumption that opposition is controlled. At the very least, you're arguing with a strawman of somebody else's construction instaed of your own. There's still some worth for that, because you're still deconstructing an ideology. It's easier to do than a more nuanced and personal argument. But that argument and the strawmanned ideology can still share basic principles. So you still get something out of taking it seriously.

I'm gonna go ahead and say as a consumer of animals and their byproducts, that I like the taste of meat. I understand the vegan position. I've got no desire to be obtuse about it. But I choose the arbitrary because I like the taste of meat and dairy. It's how I've been taught to feed myself. And I barely do that well enough in the first place, let alone do so with such a large, self-imposed restriction.

You give me working fabrication and sure. I don't really care about whether or not what I'm eating actually came from an animal as long as it tastes good and keeps me from being malnourished. That's kinda the point here.
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Overt vegan shills suck ass. Keep your dietary habits to yourself, obnoxious fucks.

On topic, those firefighters are based, and that farmer is even more based. Bet those were good sausages
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>>171341
Dr. Greger is a quack?

I see you are one of the deliberately ignorant. There's nothing that can be done for people like this.

For those who are interested in being healthy, you may want to here why Dr. Greger founded this website.

https://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-story-of-nutritionfacts-org/

A plant based diet cured his grandmothers heart disease and she lived decades longer.

He has devoted his life to uncovering these hidden facts about food that can save lives.

If you don't want to be healthy, that's fine. But millions of people are suffering and dying because of their diets.
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>>170973
New International Version
Then a voice told him, "Get up, Peter. Kill and eat."
New Living Translation
Then a voice said to him, "Get up, Peter; kill and eat them."
English Standard Version
And there came a voice to him: “Rise, Peter; kill and eat.”
Berean Study Bible
Then a voice spoke to him: "Get up, Peter, kill and eat!"
Berean Literal Bible
And a voice came to him: "Having risen up, Peter, kill and eat!"
New American Standard Bible
A voice came to him, "Get up, Peter, kill and eat!"
King James Bible
And there came a voice to him, Rise, Peter; kill, and eat.
Holman Christian Standard Bible
Then a voice said to him, "Get up, Peter; kill and eat!""
International Standard Version
Then a voice told him, "Get up, Peter! Kill something and eat it."
NET Bible
Then a voice said to him, "Get up, Peter; slaughter and eat!"
New Heart English Bible
A voice came to him, "Rise, Peter, kill and eat."
Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And a voice came to him saying, “Shimeon, arise, slay and eat.”
GOD'S WORD® Translation
A voice told him, "Get up, Peter! Kill these animals, and eat them."
New American Standard 1977
And a voice came to him, “Arise, Peter, kill and eat!”
Jubilee Bible 2000
And there came a voice to him, Rise, Peter, kill and eat.
King James 2000 Bible
And there came a voice to him, Rise, Peter; kill, and eat.
American King James Version
And there came a voice to him, Rise, Peter; kill, and eat.
American Standard Version
And there came a voice to him, Rise, Peter; kill and eat.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And there came a voice to him: Arise, Peter; kill and eat.
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>>171347
>Its not snake oil! The man who sold it to me said so!
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>>171342
I didn't say the opposition is controlled.

What carnists do in these threads is basically a defense mechanism. Most people (with functioning brains) feel shitty about killing animals, so the mind creates concepts to cope.

These people are not looking for information. They are looking to make themselves feel better about their blood shed.
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>>171351
If it has no emotions I have no problem in killing it, and fish don't feel pain.
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>>171346
I'll stop pleading that you cease killing animals when you stop paying people to kill animals (several times a day).

if you want to kill so badly, can't you kill yourself?

>>171350
So you don't think that healthy food can cure disease

"an apple a day keeps the doctor away"

this is obvious shit that everybody knows. but now that we've got science to support it, moronic carnists get defensive.
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>>171353
I don't know about the first comment but I hunt, and I donate one hundred pounds of good fresh meat to my lower class friend who has 8 siblings, a crippled mother and a dad who his mother left due to drugs.
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>>171352
So you don't eat birds or mammals? That's a huge step in the right direction!

but if you think fish can't feel pain you should have no issue watching this video.

Skinned Alive - Cruel Catfish Slaughter Exposed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sD9M8cjXsL0

It really looks like it's in pain. And they central nervous system. This is a myth that makes fishing more fun, sorry.
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>>171357
No i hunt deer, bear and grouse m8
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>>171355
No, I meant kill YOURSELF instead of other beings you disgusting animal.

As if you don't support the meat industry because you hunt, that's a load of bullshit. Hunters still buy groceries.
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>>171353
I would kill my own animals if I could cities don't allow farms, hunting is fine as long as you eat the animal you kill trophy hunting is wrong though as it is wasteful.
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>>171346
Homemade stuff always is superior, especially from people who do it for a living. You know what I find funniest is the people who actually grow the food for the world are the ones that ranch too and don't give a shit about vegan nonsense. Animals are just another symbiotic crop to harvest to them. No wheat farmer in their right mind would stop ranching cattle since you want them to graze down the young plants to make them head out better later. Same for nut orchards and pigs. Rice and crawfish. So on and so forth. It's free money, tastes great, and lets you get maximum use out of things.

No right minded person that lives out in the country gives any ear to that suffering nonsense either because watching nature itself work is pretty brutal. Nobody would say a farmed rabbit or a bullet in a rabbit is terrible after you've heard a rabbit scream while a hawk or coyote is tearing it apart. People need to just get outside and stop living such sanitized lives. It's pretty much exactly like the lady in the OP said. You give the animal a pretty good life compared to what it would have in the wild and then make use of it when the time comes. Nothing bad about that.
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>>171357
And I have no problem with watching that video, bc nerves keep going after death. Here's an experiment if you have the balls to do it. Cut a crab in half and spray the inside with water from a hose
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>>171358
if you killed yourself, planet Earth would become a less violent place.

isn't that strange? couldn't it be different? could you not share plant food with your crippled mother? stupid asshole
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>>171353
Well you know what I trust more than old sayings? The white paper that your guy cites that also says he is full of shit. You bought lies, it was shown to you he is lying and you defend the snake oil salesman because he says it saved his dear old nan? Are you this fucking stupid?
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>>171359
I... don't buy meat.
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>>171361
look at all these defense mechanisms

do you feel better now, killer?
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>>171364
So you're saying that healthy food doesn't real or what

have you ever heard of an "antioxidant"? jesus christ.
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>>170973
another way of thinking about this is animals that would of never existed and experienced any sort of life if we didnt eat them.

you know what would happen if we just let all those animals loose and didnt provide for them? devastation of natural resources of pretty much...everything. the sheer amount of food they require would have to be taken away from the food we would now have to eat since we cant eat meat, so any vegetarians proposal is: starve millions of people to feed the animals, costing billions since your no longer making profit
OR
let 800 billion creatures starve to death in cages so they cant devastate the environment and kill MORE animals
OR let them out and destroy the environment, kill 800 billion plus animals, and likely destroy millions if not billions of human lives.

no matter how you look at it, vegans want less animals to live
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>>171363
Have you tasted good bacon? It's to die for.
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>>171365
cheese and milk is much worse because the cow is tortured for a while before they make the beef

i bet you love ice cream you fat fuck. yeah you're saving the planet buy killing deer instead of buying a bit more animal from the store.

>i don't have to feel bad about eating meat because I kill deer instead

what the fuck is wrong with human brains that it's this easy to fool yourself?
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>>171096
a perfect god would have everyone have a choice but coincidentally decide to believe in god and thus go to heaven no matter what. you wouldnt have to worry about if eating meat was unethical because that would be meaningless to the "forever and forever in perfect heaven" ending. hell, a perfect god would just...skip the whole, human life on earth part and move right to the heaven. are you unable to imagine THAT? surely, your defective. maybe you already have brain cancer?
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>>171370
Jowl bacon is the best. You make it out of the cheek and the meat to fat percentage is much higher. It's the traditional new years dish with beans where I come from. It also still has the outer layer of skin so you get a nice extra crunch without having to overcook it.
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>>171371
XD I USE TO LIVE ON A FARM M8 I THINK I HAVE THE ATHORITY TO SAY COWS LIKE BEING MILKED!!!!!!!
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>>171369

are you serious?

>>171370

Of course I've had bacon. I grew up with a normal diet.

But when I became an adult I started taking responsibility for my actions.

First thing I did was to stop killing animals every day for no reason. I bought a bag of potatoes and have felt lighter ever since.

Why do you pay people to kill animals for you? Don't you know that it's not necessary or healthy?
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>>171371
its in your sugar, its in your clothing, its in your medicine. its hilarious how vegans think they are superior because they dont murder animals for food, but "only for things actually less important to survive then food"

the liquid crystals in the lcd`s your using RIGHT now to tell people meat is murder, has a good chance of being made from cholesterol derived from animals. thats right, an animal died so you could tell people meat is murder and how you dont
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>>171375
Do they like having their babies taken from them?

They cry for weeks you piece of shit. All so you can eat her baby's milk.
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>>171376
...yes? do you have a logical solution to this that isnt fantasy?
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>>171376
Potatos are a starch, starches make you hungry faster, the faster that you get hungry the shorter the gap between meals is, the shorter the gap between meals is the more you eat, the more you eat the fatter you get.
HA
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>>171377
>its in your sugar
false
>its in your clothing
false
>its in your medicine
false
>your computer might have possibly have some animal bi-product
okay, maybe. Do you think that means I should eat meat for every meal?

How retarded are you exactly? Are you having trouble in every day life or just abstract concepts like morality?

Let me help you: morally speaking, it is better to kill LESS than to kill MORE. understand?
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>>171378
We didn't...
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>>171378
can you prove they even care? that they even have the mental faculties to?
can you even prove cows arnt assholes that would willingly give away their children for shelter and free food? vegans always assume that if animals could talk they would also be moral. id bet it would be pretty surprising to really hear what they can say. you think vegans will still feel bad for cows if they start spouting racist tirades about other animals and how babies make GREAT distractions from predators, so its good to have more
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>>171383
so what you're saying is vegans have a obesity problem?

Do you understand how idiotic this sounds?
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>>171368
Those goalposts arent even on the same continent. Your sources are shit. Saying "well he says healthy food is healthy so hes right" is vegan levels of retarded. Of course eating vegatables is good for you. Advocating abandoning meat and dairy and modern medicine on the word of a known liar who doesnt even read his source material is absolutely insane. Sourcing nutritionfacts.org as a reason that nutritionfacts.org is trustworthy is so stupid you must be trolling. You are every nigerian prince/bridge salesmans wet dream come true.
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>>171386
So what you're saying is, mammal's don't care about their offspring?

Do you understand how idiotic this sounds?

Why do you feel no shame for how stupid you are?
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>>171387
No im saying potatos make you fat aft you said you bought a bag of potatos and felt lighter ever since.
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>>171384
>there are no medicines that are derived from animals
wew
>some sugar is not filtered using bonechar
wew
>implying some synthetic materials are made using animal products somewhere along the line

no, but when you demonise eating meat, the one thing actually important to survival in some cases, but consider it not murder to use meat to shitpost on your mobile phone you look a bit fucking stupid.
im going to be okay with eating meat because it sustains life
your okay with killing animals to post on reddit...so, i think im actually hilariously more morally correct
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>>171389
I haven't moved any goalposts. You are just incredibly ignorant so I don't know where to begin educating you.

Now you're just lying about Dr. Greger. How is he a "known liar"? lol

He is a doctor organizing and sharing scientific studies which are far too complex for your cholesterol packed mind.
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>>171390
you mean besides the huge variety of mammals that eat their own young
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>>171391
Oh okay that makes a shit ton of sense now.

>>171392
that's not what I said. you're being dishonest now.


>i think im actually hilariously more morally correct
No you don't. Even if I am killing an animal to use this computer, I ate broccoli for breakfast.

That means that I caused less death today than you, you piece of trash.

By no measurement is a vegan less ethical than a carnist. It's basic math, deny it all you wish.
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>>171394
hes too complex for us mere simpletons? So your the bastard who stole my fucking kool aid for your kult, arn't you?
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>>171394
You could always read something besides what the nice hair tonic salesman wrote. You could even read his sources. Or anyone who has put him to more scrutiny than just watching and trusting his videos. Literally anything that isnt in your face vegan propaganda. But you arent even a vegan, youre a cultist at this point.
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>>171395
>animals do some bad things therefore I should be even worse

is this how your mind works?
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>>171398
haha that's hilarious

but seriously stop killing animals you fucking cunt
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>>171400
>argument was you cant take animals away because they must be compassionate
>point out they arnt
>taking away an animal is worse then the animal literally eating its own children

oh wait you changed the subject because you had no counter argument. ill even answer that
>devouring your OWN children is less bad then
>eating another species
curb_your_enthusiasm_song.exe
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>>171401
If I don't kill them what will stop the animals from running rampant in our streets? And I think a bullet is more humane than what wolves do to deer.
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>>171386
Working with cattle is like being a tard wrangler in a preschool, except the tards weigh two thousand pounds. They're so stupid and they break fucking everything they can rub against or trample. They're so much trouble, nobody would bother with them if they weren't good for food and leather. People who humanize them should be forced to actually deal with daily shit of taking care of a few hundred head on a ranch for a month or two. It would shrivel up their sympathy real quick.
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>>171399
nutritionfacts.org isn't a vegan website it's a health food facts website you dumb ass.

there's nothing about animals on the website. Dr. Greger is just a doctor trying to educate people like his grandmother.

She had heart disease and was sent home to die. She went vegan(whole foods though) and lived DECADES.

I'm sharing this, because heart disease is our #1 killer. There are people on this board with dying loved ones, and they need to know this before it's too late.
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>>171403
>we can take away a cow's baby because some animals eat their baby!

this is your argument and you're a fucking retard bro

don't expect substantial responses when this is what you bring to the table.

go chock on a piece of chicken flesh already dumbass
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>>171406
If heart desies is our #1 killer then we should be debating and debunking fat acceptance, not criticizing anons on a news board who you don't know the health status of.
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>>171404
you pay someone to kill them for you

if you stop, they'll simply stop impregnating animals.

>wolfs are killers so that means I can kill too

Do you really hold yourself to the standards of a wolf?

Why do say such stupid things? Couldn't you have thought this through, and seen that it is not a logical argument?

It's fascinating how this topic turns anon into a blathering idiot.
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>>171410
I am criticizing you because you pay people to kill animals for you every day you fucking asshole

what the hell is wrong with you?
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>>171406
Youre a troll trying to make vegans look bad by false flag. Nobody is this dense. I refuse to believe someone can read and write english is this bad at making a coherent argument. Ill refer you back to >>171347 and hope you actually read something besides your supreme prophets holy texts.
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>>171408
>we shouldnt save the baby cows life and allow it to live longer because that compassionate cow wants to eat its fucking child


this is your argument and you're a fucking retard bro

don't expect substantial responses when this is what you bring to the table.

go chock on a piece of tofu already dumbass

>sad_trombone

>>171405
another interesting point is vegans act like the cows today are what cows have always been, docile, easy going, slow and somewhat friendly to some degree. wrong, thats a 1000 years of us performing basically genetic modification by culling the undiserable cows and breeding the diserable ones. the cows of today are unfit to survive in the wild because they are designed to produce milk and the maximum amount of beef, while cows back then probably were mean little motherfuckers. it would be like tossing your newborn into the wild and saying good luck. just like human babies need human adults to survive, baby cows need human adults to survive. you think todays momma cow is gonna karate chop the lion attacking its young or..."compassionately" run the fuck away
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>>171413
Missed the post, its >>171341 you need to read
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>>171411
W8....
>>171353
O and I was saying that the way wolves kill deer is a fucking horror story.
1. The maul and wound the deers legs
2. They let it run until it falls over
3. They eat it dead or alive.
Would you rather that or a bullet.
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>>171413
Yeah you don't need to reconsider how much death you cause because I'm probably just a troll

>>171404
also they aren't shot will a bullet, as you'd like to imagine.

They're killed in various ways. Often a stun to the head, followed by a knife to the throat.

Have you ever seen a cow's throat get slit? It's a huge neck. They have to get that knife all over to drain the blood.

And they don't die fast, because these are large animals with a lot of blood and will to live.

And don't forget that the baby male chicks are ground up alive. Is that better than what the wolves do?
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>>171412
I kill them myself actually... tell you what. I'll call myself huntsman
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>>171417
I shoot them with a bullet... but yet again I hunt my own food and use to live on a farm so what do I know...
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>>171416
Are you a wolf or a human? or are too stupid to know the difference?

rhetorical questions
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>>171420
No but that's not what I'm saying smartass, I'm saying a bullet is more humane then being mauled and chased down by a pack of wolves
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>>171419
see

>>171359
you're no better than the average consumer
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>>171421
wow you're like an ethical genius wow

what's worse, dying in your sleep or being thrown into a volcano?

DO TELL of the wisdom you know. Oh wise one. Please go on and explain how to be an ethical person!

It's okay to shoot animals why exactly? Because wolves don't shoot animals?
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>>171422
Wow smartass, I said I don't buy my own groceries. I have 3 chest freezers full of meat I hunted and fished for myself.
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>>171425
what a disgusting animal you are

like a wolf, without the wonder and nobility.
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>>171423
I'm saying I'd rather their be fewer animals mauled by wolves because of overpopulation. I'd rather animals not enter human environment and wreck the place.
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>>171428
yeah you're saving the deer by killing them.

you're such a good person, thank you.
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>>171427
Then why do I give half my meat to the poor smartass?
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>>171430
You don't know much about preditor/prey population relations do you?
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>>171431
you do that to make yourself feel like a good person

but it doesn't matter how to feel. you kill animals for no reason.

you could just eat plants. but you're a selfish asshole.

hurry up and get heart disease, asshole. i recommend a low carb high fat diet.
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>>171432
I do. And you're awesome.

Thank you for killing the deer with your gun, otherwise they might be killed by a wolf.

What the hell are you doing at the computer right now???? THE DEER NEED YOUR HELP.

AND THE HUMANS NEED YOUR MEAT. THEY CAN"T EAT PLANTS!!!!! my hero
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>>171433
No I hunt to feed. I kill to keep others living. Your asking me to die bc that will save the animals. I'm killing the animals to feed those who need it. The difference is I'm fighting for creatures with more developed brains.
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>>171434
I'm waiting for hunting season to make it so I can give an animal the more humane death than being mauled by a pack of wolves.
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>>171435
yeah that's what I said, you're a HERO.


we have to kill the deer or the wolves will get them! and we can not eat plants. especially not canned beans.

We have to eat deer meat or we will fucking DIE
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>>171306
all vegans and vegeterians liek to eat poop
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>>171437
my hero

omg hurry up and ignore the hunting laws

this is an ETHICAL ISSUE man, fuck the law. you need to GO SAVE THE DEER WITH YOUR BULLETS

>holy fucking shit he is serious
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>>171434
And you can't eat what you can't afford, especially when your trying to feed 8 others. I think that that poor family who lives in a broken rental home would love to stop eating the meat I'm giving them for free.
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>>171438
Well he was eating YOUR dinner, I just hoped I got to the dirty thief in time before he shat on it as well.
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>>171442
wow you really are a hero

you're saving the planet

because people on welfare have to eat deer meat or they'll die

they can't go to a soup kitchen and get free soup

YOU HAVE TO KILL THE DEER OR ELSE

there's a special seat in heaven for you, i bet.
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>>171440
I'm not saying my side is 100% ethical, but I'm saying yours isn't ether, there is more then just " stop eating meat" to this issue, if hunting would stop then there would be massive starvation due to a mass population growth. This is a 2 sided coin and we are board needed to be on this planet. People like me regulate through hunting, and people like you make it harder to kill it to allow for some pop groth and prevent an accidental genocide.
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>>171444
Most soups have meat...
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>>171444
There are only so many soup cans in the world...
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>>171448
>>171449
yeah, it's complicated. like that one guy said, even computers might have animal parts.

i guess you shouldn't bother being ethical. since it's hard.

i guess we should just eat animals without a care in the world

because of whatever stupid bullshit you're making up
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>>171451
you probably aren't even a hunter. just some average lazy fuck with no morals.

>but some eskimos in africa need meat to live THAT'S WHY I EAT BACON EVERY FUCKING DAY ASSHOLE
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>>171444
You need more variety in your diet or you will slowly kill yourself, and not everybody can afford a lot of tofu...
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>>171448
Your shit joke isn't funny, mostly because it is a moral question of a hard and terrible life and death, or having less life so that all things can enjoy it.
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>>171454
plants have all the variety you need.

you don't need to eat cholesterol, you fucking idiot. in fact, it's bad for you, in case you didn't know that.

why would you need to eat tofu? That's processed food anyway. To get the benefits of a vegan diet, you need to eat more fiber. That's when you start reversing shit like diabetes.

Plant foods are much cheaper than animal foods. Because they have to grow plants in order to feed animals.

Simple logic will show that it would be cheaper to simply eat the plants in the first place.
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>>171455
Shit, wrong 1... meant to give the (you) to
>>171444
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>>171456
Yes but if people stop eating meat the demand for tofu will skyrocket and if the demand goes up the price will as well.
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>>171455
it's sad to watch a carnist speak of morals. in these moments I am reminded of just how little the average person has contemplated.

I assumed everybody pondering ethical issues and the meaning of things. But perhaps that was foolish.
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>>171456
Vitamin deficiencies due to veganism... look it up.
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>>171459
I'm sorry I'm part of your kilts outgroup but I don't trust you fuckers... YOU STOLE MY FUCKING KOOL AID
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>>171461
Kult, fucking auto-correct.
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>>171460
animals feel pain... look it up
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>>171463
1. Pain threshold, look it up.
2. Not all animals feel pain, despite what PETA said.
3. Id rather those animals that feel pain have a painless death then die by getting mauled by a pack of wolves.
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>>171465
deer feel pain. cows feel pain. chickens feel pain. pigs feel pain. goat feel pain. fish feel pain. and they feel that pain because of you.

thousands of animals will be slaughtered because you're too thoughtless care.
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>>171466
1. Yes but that's why I give them a way to die without suffering. 2. 2nd verse same as the first. 3. No, they don't have the brain for it, why do you think a chicken can live without its head. 4. Repeat of one. 5. I don't eat or kill goats but refer to one. 6. No they don't and science confirmed it. Pain comes from the pleasure centre of the brain, that part of the brain fish, chickens, and many other creatures lack.
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i'm sorry for replying to the namefag everybody

just look at that shit
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>>171470
I refer to
>>171418
Bc you kept confusing me with other ppl
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>>171470
Now if you will excuse me I'm going to the store... just to piss you off.
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>>171471
either way, your posts are getting less intelligent so it's just a waste of everybody's time.

if you won't stop killing, then just try and get a disease as soon as possible.

that way less animals will die.

>>171473
it doesn't really piss me off because I know you're going to suffer in your final days. but that's your choice, and it's what you deserve.
>>
A vegan diet is devoid of essential nutrients to leading a healthy diet.
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>>171474
You can't even tell me the colour of my eyes, and you think you know I will suffer before I die? I would tell you to pull your head out of your ass but I believe you need to see the shit your collecting to help fertilize your crops, because god knows what you'll do if we use THE ANIMALS shit to fertilize!
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>>171479
I knew you were lying about buying groceries

>>171425
>I said I don't buy my own groceries
>>171473
>I'm going to the store...

So yeah, i know you pretty well. Enjoy old age and don't worry about your arteries.
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>>171482
I just said I'm going to the store, I never said I would buy anything. I'm going to walk bc im a healthy person.
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>>171479


Here's where i said that btw, you lying sack of shit.

>>171359
You fake ass hunter.
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>>171482
>>I knew you were lying about buying groceries
>not living next to a grocery store
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>>171483
You said you were going to the store "just to piss me off" implying you're going to buy meat.

Walking isn't going to help. Only triatheletes exercise enough that their arteries compare to vegan arteries.

You can find that one on nutritionfacts too, you slob.
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>>171486
>Only triatheletes exercise enough that their arteries compare to vegan arteries.
source?
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Mods could you ban everyone in this thread including me.
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>>171484
I was going for a walk, I said I was going to walk to the store, and I said it was JUST to piss you off. I stated my intentions, you just misread.
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I'm okay with a plant based diet as long as it is GMO that is the only way to feed our increasing population on earth. Also would not mind cloned lab grown meat as it is cruelty free.
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>>171490
>>171329
go away monsanto
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>>171487
https://nutritionfacts.org/video/arteries-of-vegans-vs-runners/

>The carotid arteries of those eating plant-based diets appear healthier than even those just as slim (long-distance endurance athletes who’ve run an average of 50,000 miles).
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>>171489
You're lying. It's getting awkward. Shut up.
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>>171491
GMO is safe and healthy prove me wrong.
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>>171489
Don't forget to take your BB gun. Your might need to wrestle your hot pockets away from a deer.
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>>171495
1. I use a 7mm Remington magnum.
2. I'll get back to you when I'm home.
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>>171496
We have established that you're a liar. A fake hunter looking to justify his cheese addiction.

You're probably just jerking off.
>>
Why did this happen to my thread.
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>>171098
>I also invested 3.3 trillion to encourage the end animal of slaughter.

You didn't invest that much a group did.
Meat is delicious and one of my favorite dishes is foie gras. The suffering makes it taste better
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>>171500
Well you didnt read the full post. They said they didnt invest.
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>>171497
No I was testing you, you were building straw man arguments out of my statements And I wanted to see if you even knew the rules of logic in a argument so I threw the most obvious case of "begging the question" that I could have made. You fell for it without stating it was one which confirmed my suspicions of you just talking out of your ass. I did walk to the store but I didn't buy anything. I did it to not be a liar, and I used it as a timer to see if you would even notice the bait... you didn't, your too angry and full of yourself to see what I'm talking about. I am not a savage wolf that you can hunt down with twisted logic, I am a huntsman who knows how to call his prey, and now your in my crosshairs. Concider this me pulling the trigger.
>>
Because you support slaughter on an unprecedented scale.

No war or genocide can compare. And they slaughter and maim these animals for you.

Pigs are castrated. Chickens have their beaks burned off. Cows have their horns torns from their skull. Cows are impregnated, have their offspring taken from them, and are strapped to milk sucking machines. They suck so hard that it wounds the utter and blood/pus enters the milk. But you don't care about any of that.

Cause it tastes good.
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>>171498
Bc peta came.
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>>171504
For

>>171498
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>>171503
>i wasn't lying about groceries I was testing you

Lolol
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>>171507
Just leave and don't tread on me ever again.
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>>171505
I thought you were going to stop posting and go on a walk

Lying faggot
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>>171509
Did you decide to stay inside because you're surrounded by dangerous deer and wolves?
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>>171507
I just posted a silly local news story man. You don't know what I support.
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>>171508
Straw man, I said... fuck it.
>>171479
Tell me where it said I was going to buy anything.
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>>171510
When did I say that oh great builder of straw man? I just said I was pulling the trigger
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>>171498
Hey, buddy, I think he's gone.
PARTYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!
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>>171513
Lol so you're a vegan?

Fuck you. Stop paying people to kill animals 3+ times a day you garbage
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>>171494
I will sidestep that issue by saying that monsanto has ruined tons of small farmers because they were allowed to sue them out of business if those farmers had a single plant with monsanto's patented gene was found on their land.
so fuck off monsanto and their ilk
>>
Vegetarians are also least likely to be invited to Sunday BBQ and holiday dinner
>>
>220 posts on a quirky local interest story
>All thanks to the stereotypical vegan who knows stone nothing about animals
>If you lean into your monitor, you can even smell the patchouli
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>>171533
You are a net harm to planet Earth

Thousands of animals will be ground up and dismembered alive, all for you.

You could have eaten beans or fruit. But that was just too difficult.

Sorry animals! That beak must be removed. Those squiggly tails can be fed to the pigs they came from. And sorry cows, you're getting months of rape before that knife cuts you up. It's really important that humans eat unhealthy food.
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>>171536
implying plants like getting ripped wholesale out of the ground and then ground up en masse

face it, you cause suffering regardless, it's just a matter of degrees.

if you hold prevention over human pleasure/survival you should probably advocate voluntary extinction- granted that won't help either because after we're gone the darwinian horror will continue until the end of the universe.
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>>171538
I feel so stupid for never making this connection. Wow. Thank you. Fuck this hippie diet lol.

I've been vegan a while, but I always had this idea for free meat. Since ypu shared your wisdom, I'll share my idea. You know can get free pets right? There's tons of places literally giving away animals. All you have to do is pretend you want a pet.

I'll go pick up a dog and a few cats tomorrow. How do you recommend I kill and cook them?
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>>170973
I'll be thinking of you next time I get fifty dollars worth of barbecue
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>>171540
I'm not a vegan anymore the guy above just blew my freaking mind

I'm going get free meat like I always wanted. Do you want some dog or cat too?
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>>171538

You are wise . . . You need to start a hunger strike..
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>>171541
I wouldn't recommend it, dog and cat don't taste very good
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Dog actually tastes good. A lot Loire a good roast. Common dish in[arts of Asia.
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Right now, at this very moment, on American highways, there are no less than 5,000 concentration camp trucks. Trucks that we’ve constructed.

Inside these trucks there are living, terrified, innocent beings (such as) cows, pigs and chickens. These trucks are being driven to concentration camp slaughterhouses that we’ve carefully constructed all across America.

When the trucks arrive, the animals are so frightened they won’t even get off the truck. They’re not stupid. They know what’s next.

So people go on the trucks with electric prods and force them to walk down the chutes to their own death. Or if the animals are small enough to manhandle, like chickens, we’ll just grab them off the trucks and toss them inside.

Inside, these innocent, living beings are hanged upside down, fully conscious. In other words, they go in alive against their will and come out chopped up into hundreds of pieces.
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>>171564

I think this type of behavior is inexcusable and unbecoming of a species that claims to understand right from wrong.

The animals have not done one single thing to us to deserve the wrath and the cruelty that we hurl on them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nt4lweBJTQs
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>>171075
>Even people dying of cancer can REVERSE their disease with a whole food vegan diet.
That's what killed Steve Jobs.
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>>171140
>Can you make a joke without displaying your ignorance?
Clearly he can, because the only one here displaying their ignorance is you.
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>>171406
>nutritionfacts.org isn't a vegan website it's a health food facts website you dumb ass.
a)that's wrong
b)you're retarded
c)just kill yourself already
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>>171456
>you don't need to eat cholesterol
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cholesterol#Hypocholesterolemia
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>>171492
Nutritionfacts is a propaganda website, not a source.
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>>171524
Monsanto is a shitty organization it does not mean GMOs are bad
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>>171539

stewing them would be good carnivores are chewy.
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>>170973
Wow this obvious bait hooked everyone
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>>170951
>"I'm sure vegetarians will hate this," she said.
Yeah I do I think it's stupid
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>>170973
>1 to 6.5 trillion bees enslaved because you like bee vomit
?
they're not trapped in the hive, and if you don't give them an artificial one, they'd just go make their own
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>>170983
I eat gravel, you people just harm the world's ecosystem
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>>171594
Yet it means that until patent laws become unfucked in this country, I cannot endorse GMOs.
Also GMOs don't currently increase crop yields of farmers. They offer either herbicide resistance or produce an insecticide. The herbicide resistance isn't all that helpful, since the non RR plants eventually develop a resistance to roundup. The insecticide isn't as helpful either, because the insects eventually develop a resistance and the insecticide may kill other helpful insects, upsetting the ecosystem.
see https://web.archive.org/web/20080702201720/http://www.soilassociation.org/web/sa/saweb.nsf/848d689047cb466780256a6b00298980/3cacfd251aab6d318025742700407f02!OpenDocument for the crop yeilds
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>>171616
Bait? Reminding you of the suffering you cause is not bait.

You unethical piece of shit. Or do you donate money to homeless people sometimes? Does that counteract killing thousands to feed your disgusting habits?
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>>171594
>judging monsanto's business tactics while your gut holds a dismembered animal
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>>170973
Just because of this post, I'm going to start killing my chickens, And let them bleed out in pain before de feather them.
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>>171737
you ain't going to do shit you lazy ass mindless pussy.

you're going to do whatever your dick and taste buds command, just like you do every day.
>>
The search for evidence of at least one vegan that isn't an insufferable faggot continues.
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>>171753

>insufferable
you cause suffering to thousands of animals for no reason.

to use that word in this context shows how small your world view is.
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>>170951
This isn't news
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>>170983
>anything outside an omnivorous diet is unnaturl and unhealthy
Anything outside an omnivorours diet isn't edible
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>>171737
doesnt the fear make the meat go bad?
or at least taste different
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>>171771
>no reason
but I eat them? that's a reason
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>>171811
you never heard of a vegetarian? they've been around the entire time.

>>171841
Reason implies justification. And there is no justifying your blood shed.

Pretending that vegetarians are a myth doesn't make you any less of a unethical piece of shit.
>>
boo hoo my uncle has been a vegetarian for 46 years and never had any disease.
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>>171976
Reason does NOT imply justification, stop making up definitions to words
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>>171987
>uncle has been a vegetarian for 46 years
such beautiful words. thanks for sharing.
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>>172020
yes it does, we are speaking english. don't cling to technicalities for the sake of making some dishonest point that nobody gives a fuck about.

it's bad enough you're a killer. don't be a liar too.

>Definition of reason
>a statement offered in explanation or justification
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/reason
>>
This ridiculous argument is so pathetic it's funny.

Murder of Animals is IMMORAL!!!
Murder of Plants, yea, we're ok with that.
LOL!

You can't fix the hypocritical stupid, you can only point and laugh.
42279
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>>172024
>killing a cow is the same as plucking a flower

carnist logic

really makes me glad I don't have excess cholesterol stuffing up my brains arteries.
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>>172030
Both result in death just one matters more to you.
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>>172040

BINGO!!!
You can't fix the hypocritical stupid, so just enjoy laughing at them.
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>>172040
Can plants feel terror?

Can plants feel agony?

Can they love their offspring? Can plants mourn a loss?

Do plants have a central nervous system, giving them the ability to feel pain? I know that you're ignorant as dog shit, so the answer is no.

There is no comparison. You can lie to yourself, of course, that's what you must do to justify your slaughter.

But this is no solace to the animals you torment.

>>172043
Do you really think that it's stupid to not kill animals?

Why is it stupid to cause less suffering?
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>>172049

Do plants grow towards the light?
There is a comparison and that is the plant obviously wants to LIVE.

Death=Death
No matter how you figure it in your head, you're still a hilarious hypocrite.
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>>172060
Are you proud of this logic? Is this enough to justify killing 7000 animals?

>Yeah, sure animals have brains and love their babies... BUT PUH-LANTS GROW TOWARD DA SUN HUUUUUURR

pls pls pls get heart disease soon
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>>172066

I must admit, most people when proven a hypocrite reassess their logic, but not you. You are determined to stay a hypocrite.

Are you even aware animals kill and eat other animals?

Your lack of common sense is so embarrassing I'd have to say you are a child of Monsanto.
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>>172066
As long as you eat meat in moderation eating meat is very healthy and part of a balanced diet.
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>>172071
>Are you even aware animals kill and eat other animals?

WAIT WHAT??? WHAT KIND OF ANIMALS DO THIS?
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>>172072
processed meat is literally a class 1 carcinogen dipshit

there is nothing healthy about cholesterol. ANY of it is bad for you, and you likely eat it with every meal.

when you eat cholesterol, it hardens and thickens your arteries. saturated fat also does this, which all meat has.

you know what else meat has, you ignorant fuck, TRANS FATS. YES all meat has trans fats. Why isn't it banned? Because people like you don't really care about being healthy.

So go enjoy your cholesterol, saturated fat, and especially the cancer promoting hormones.

I'm gonna have some beans, and get my food without the shit that kills.
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>>172076

I don't have a problem with you being a vegetarian.
YOU have a problem with me and others eating meat.

So, according to your snowflake logic, that makes you a "RACIST"

Point and laugh, folks, point and laugh.
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>>172076
I don't eat processed meat my dude plenty of people eat meat and live to 100+ and live happy and fulfilling lives!
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>>172078
it's not just processed meat though. processed meat is just worse.

>>172075

here's some information on cancer for those that care

https://nutritionfacts.org/video/protein-intake-and-igf-1-production/

>Animal protein consumption triggers the release of the cancer-promoting growth hormone IGF-1.

cancer is scary enough without promoting it's growth, isn't it? we should eat foods that fight cancer instead.
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>>172078
>plenty of people eat meat and live to 100+ and live happy and fulfilling lives!
and some people do the same while drinking alcohol and smoking cigarettes

does that mean you can smoke cigarettes and do the same? of course not, some people are just lucky.
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>>172077
>I don't have a problem with you being a vegetarian.
Why would you have a problem with me eating plants?

Don't make ridiculous comparison. There is no equivalence.

I don't have a problem with you "eating meat" I have a problem with you KILLING ANIMALS.

Please stop. Stop supporting this daily slaughter. Just eat something that didn't suffer.
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>>172082
I would rather live a happy life eating meat you are free to choose how to live your life my friend. Genetics play more of a roll in longevity then diet as long as you get proper nutrients which meat eaten in moderation provides you too can live a fulfilling life!
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>>172085
Plants suffer when you kill them they just express it differently.
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>>172089
>my friend
I am not your friend. You are a mindless killer.

Thousands of animals will suffer and bleed to death because of you.

Spare me you exclamation marks faggot. Enjoy that increased IGF-1.
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>>172093
I will thank you have a wonderful day!
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>>172095
Your faux kindness is disgusting.

Your gut is full of dismembered and tortured animals.

Yet you care that I have a wonderful day? Bullshit. You haven't got the capacity to care for another being.
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>>172097
Of course I do I'm human the only animals who can!
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>>172099
Yeah humans care

that's why >>170973 right?

You care about that? Of course not. Lying creepy faggot, fuck off already.
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>>172100
I care about the suffering of higher being.
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>>172085
Why would I have a problem with you eating plants?
It makes no sense to you?
lol
The hypocrisy can see if the focus is on them it's irrational if they KILL a living Plant and eat it, that's morally ok.

But they can't see eating an animal as being ok.

It's your inability to see that Murder is Murder and if you can kill a plant then you can kill an animal, SAME MORALITY.

You like to "think" you have a higher morality, but you don't. It's just your delusional imagination.

And it's funny. It's really funny.
Eat your beans and toot, lol.
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>>172080
i should have posted this about IGF 1

https://nutritionfacts.org/video/igf-1-as-one-stop-cancer-shop/

>>172103
No you don't That's just something to "justify" killing thousands of animals to yourself.

It's funny how easily humans can lie to themselves. Literally, "plants grow toward the sun though," is enough for some minds to be okay with killing.

That's what separates us from the animals. A total disconnect from reality.
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>>172105
We are animals.
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>>172104
If you expect me to believe you have an issue with me eating beans, you're even stupider than cholesterol intake can explain.

This is just one of the many mental gymnastics people use to kill. You cannot convince me that killing animals is morally just, so your next best chance is to convince me that morality is confusing.

But it's not.

Killing is wrong. And you don't have to kill.
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>>172106
then stop killing them and us

why the hell would you kill something that's just like you?
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>>172107
you don't have to kill either plants deserve to live if they didn't we would cut them all down.
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>>172111
>plants deserve to live

Do animals deserve to live too?
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>>172112
Of course neither should be eaten we should subsist upon the energy of the sun.
>>
OMG
Are you just getting it???
Killing BOTH Animals and Plants is MORALLY WRONG!

You're a hypocrite to kill a plant and say killing an animal is wrong, lol.
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>>172113
>>172115
So you admit that killing animals is morally wrong.

There's progress. Maybe you aren't hopeless.

Now, since you admit that killing plants and animals is wrong, let's examine what is worse?

Is it worse to kill plants OR animals and the plants required to feed them?

Now basic math will show that it is more ethical to eat plants than thousands of animals and plants.

Now what's your next mental gymnastics?
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>>172117

Killing=Killing
Death-Death

There is no "worse"

That's like saying, which is worse, enslaving a black man or a asian woman?
They/re both wrong, and by trying to create a moral justification that way makes you a horrible, horrible person.
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>>172117
Im glad you want the ecosystem to destroy itself by setting all of those animals WHICH CAN NO LONGER SURVIVE IN THE WILD free. Really progressive. MUH FEES FEES
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>>172117

which is worse killing a baby or adult? I say both are wrong therefore we should eat neither meat or plants only solar energy or radiation.
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>>172119
>trying to create a moral justification that way makes you a horrible, horrible person.

This is basically a weak attempt at a "no u" You accidentally admitted that eating animals is wrong, something we all know, so now you have to turn the table on me.

But it doesn't work that way. We can talk about my flaws. Juding you makes me a dick? Ok. Well killing animals makes you a monster. You kill mammals for breakfast, lunch, dinner and more.

There is zero comparison here and I don't buy to for a second.

>>172122
are you suggesting that you are being compassionate by enslaving and slaughtering trillions of animals? because they can't survive in the wild?

>>172123
this is complex and you aren't remotely capable examinig this issue. you don't even understand teh most basic form of morality (not killing)

you can say that killing is wrong, but if you really understood this, you would not kill.
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>>172125
>this is complex and you aren't remotely capable examinig this issue.
Why don't you answer it for me as I asked you.
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>>170973
>The average meat eater will consume 2000 animals in their lifetime

is that it? I'm pretty sure I eat that many animals in one year.

#bulking
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>>172131
>bulking
yes your arteries are bulking up

does the heart and brain use arteries? nevermind... you can't possibly get protein from a plant. no choice! what a shame.

>>172128
That is the kind of thing I ponder often. You don't care anyway.

It's not my job to answer every moral dilemma. I'm here to discuss the obvious, DON'T KILL.

That's a basic good we can all strive for.
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>>172132
If you don't want to answer it you don't have to you obviously can't answer this question and that is okay.
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>>172135

you're desperately trying to steer the conversation away from the suffering you cause

is it worse to kill a plant or an animal?

if you don't want to answer it you don't have to obviously you won't because you're a dishonest unethical coward and it's not okay.
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>>172125
>let them go, have them all die on thier own time and cause a dreadful mess
>kill them off and keep the cycle going, keeping the ecosystem clean and consumers happy

Putting a Cow on the same level as a Man is morally abhorrent and you should neck yourself,they dont have souls like we do
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>>172140
I never did that

It's wrong for you to kill cows when you could instead kill beans.

It couldn't be any less complex. Stop causing unnecessary suffering. It's not just a little bit, it's thousands of animals.

and all you have to do is eat something else.
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>>172132
Jesus Christ you are such an insufferable faggot. Whatever though, you go and rage about how the whole world is wrong and damned and you and your small select band of elitists are right and blessed. Humans eat meat and have done since forever, this is a fact. Humans have adaptions that enable and encourge meat consumption, our stomachs produces enzymes that are specific to the digestion of meat if we are only suppose to eat greens then why do we not have multi chambered stomachs like a fucking cow?, vitamin B12 is only found in meat and is something we need, meat is so rich is easily tapped energy that it is perfect food for if you want to go out and actually do something, our teeth are shaped for an omnivious diet.
A case can probably be made for reducing meat consumption, as humans have grown more sedentary and can more easily grow fat from over consumption, but anyone who says that meat should be completely cut from a persons diet and that anyone who eats meat is evil is a pathetic, coddled, sheltered, dickless, moron to say the least.
Humans eat meat and are better for it.
Stop being a fucking faggot.
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>>172144
Please stop paying for people to torture and kill animals.

Can't you just eat some plants like me? I know it sounds gay, but what you're participating in is a nightmare.
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>>172145
Why the fuck do you care? How is your life affected?
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>>172148
O_O
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>>172149
>emoticons
>>>/reddit/
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>>172150
were you serious?
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>>172145
>Please stop paying for people to torture and kill animals
No. Because I don't believe removing humanity from nature is good for the long term survivel of either. Factory farming is immoral, but I don't want human culture to denormalise the consumption of meat, because once that happens, then hunting and raising animals will become taboo and our survival as a whole will take a hit. Also animals are needed for medical research, once eating animals becomes taboo, then so does using them for medical experiments, medical research grinds to a halt, this is not good for humanity.
>Can't you just eat some plants like me?
No, because I'm a human who wants to do things and be the master of my environment, not some gormless fucking cow munching on grass and tossing myself off over how morally superiour I am.
>I know it sounds gay
It does.
>but what you're participating in is a nightmare
It's not a nightmare, it's reality, and it's perfectly fine to the eye of a well ajusted human being.
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>>172151
Obviously
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>>172152
>a well adjusted human being.

>>172148
>Why the fuck do you care? How is your life affected?

>>172152
>Factory farming is immoral

>>172152
>it's perfectly fine


>>172154
Okay. I think you may be hopeless.
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>>172155
Nothing here is an arguement. If you wanna starve and spend 50 dollars on beans just to get a decent serving be my guest. Or get off your ass and force me to stop. Enter politics maybe?
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>>172158
I don't have an argument for someone who doesn't care about others.

What can be done? Should I inform you that beans are not expensive? lol

Please just die already so someone with empathy can take your place.
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>>172155
>Lolololololol I'll quote back things other people have posted back to me, what now.

You are a prime simptom of the decay that is caused to society and the individuals in it as humans because more sedentary and sheltered as tecnology progresses, I'm not bemoaning the advance of tecnology, I'm simply pointing out the things that can go wrong if we don't keep them in check.
You are decay.
You are a faggot in it's purest form.
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>>172159
>"others"
>empathy
are reserved for humans and other humans. Unless your a furfag extending your emotions onto souless animals that do not comprehend existence is only hurting you, because you'll never know peace from your self-made hell. Good lord of all the shit to be upset about , "muh animulz". Nigger we've bred so many of them that if let loose they'd die on their own. We only kill ugly animals after all.

I bet your one of those people who dont do shit for others, never donate to charity or help your community, but will tear up when a dog dies in a movie.
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>>172160
What are you saying? I was just selecting some of your quotes which I found odd, leading me to judge you as hopeless.

Understand now?

If you weren't that the anon in both posts then stop replying for other people dumbass.
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>>172162
I don't kill animals every time I eat

That's doing something. And I've been committed to this for about a decade.

Do you donate to charity? How much do you have to donate to counteract killing thousands of animals for no reason?

Couldn't you be vegan and donate to charity?
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>>172162
>We only kill ugly animals after all.

carnism is disgusting
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>>172166
Nobody cares what you think be happy you are not tasty.
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>>172159
>I don't have an argument for someone who doesn't care about others.
But that is where you're wrong kiddo, I do care and have empathy for others, the difference is I care about the beings that ensure the long term survival of the species, I care about the people who survive injures, illnesses and conditions that they would have otherwise suffered or died from were it not for medical research, something we wouldn't have if we lived in your perfect world. I care about the destruction of green land, as it cannot be hunted on. I would go as far to say that I care more than you do as I have personal, emotional investments in these things, you only "care" because it makes you feel better than everyone else.
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>>172165
You not eating meat has almost zero effect on anything. Your "im superior" protest has such an insignificantly tiny effect on the world I dont understand how you could even remotely feel acomplished.
>Do you donate to charity?
I am charity in the essence I save lives
>How much do you have to donate to counteract killing thousands of animals for no reason?
"No reason" translates into cheap food to feed tens of millions. You act like these soulless amalgamations could do anything on their own other than simply exist and destroy the ecosystem,given the numbers they exist in.
>Couldn't you be vegan and donate to charity?
Obviously yes.

Your problem is that you don't mind your own business and somehow think you have the right to question the diets of other people.
>but meat killz U!!!!!
so? is life about who lives the longest?
>its immoral
So is being alive in general, but you mayaswell be a fucking human and be the apex creature you are.
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>>172168
>I do care and have empathy for others

this is really simple.

animals feel pain.

if you cared, you would stop causing them pain.
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>>172171
Animals aren't people, therefore they are not "others" they are simply animals. They have no instrinsic purpose other than to bend to the will of mankind,as written biblically.
>I DONT BELIEVE IN BIBLE
Ok, then by natrual selection alone we came out on top with natrually superior intelligence. Do what YOU want anon,and Ill do what I want
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>>172171
Humans matter more then animals.
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>>172170
>You not eating meat has almost zero effect on anything
false, you don't grasp how much the average person consumes.

the last numbers I heard were that meat eaters eat about 7000 animals in their lifetime.

That's a huge difference I'm making. And every time I buy food I am supporting vegan food options and changing our industries.

There have been HUGE investments encouraging this. Trillions.

Plant milks are growing rapidly and getting better, as well as nut cheese.

It does matter man, you don't have to support this shit.
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>>172172
>Animals aren't people, therefore they are not "others"
carnist logic


>Do what YOU want anon,and Ill do what I want
>dude I don't care that you eat plants so don't judge me for killing thousands of animals for no reason

you really should be careful when "thinking"

all that heme iron is oxidizing and you're making it even worse
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>>172175
>Humans matter more then animals.
and cows matter more than potatoes

birds matter more than apples

and pigs matter more than carrots

it's so simple
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>>172177

Definition of charity

a : generosity and helpfulness especially toward the needy or suffering;

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/charity
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>>172180
Which is why I eat all of those things humans matter more then animals.
>>
don't delete this post faggot

>>172177


>>I am charity in the essence I save lives
>AAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
>*breaths*
>HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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>>172182
Sometimes I think that this is a matter of intelligence because you just don't seem to understand the logic

it's like the part of your brain that likes chicken nuggets is more powerful than the part that comprehends what a chicken is.
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>>172175
This.
>>172171
Humans, with their larger brains (enabled through the consumption of meat as they are an organ that consums alot of energy) have a much greater scope for experencing suffering, that is no to say that animals don't feel pain or can't suffer, no one here is advocating the torture of animals, and when I say torture I mean actual torture as in the intensional infiction of pain, not the fake "torture" that is simply an unfortunate biproduct of the killing of an animal though hunting, slaughter or experimentation which humans in general make efforts to minimalise or eliminate when possible.

Ergo, humans matter more.
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>>172178
>carnist
Meaningless buzzword. If you hold a chicken at the same level as a man your clinically insane.
also
>being an authoritarian bootlicker,wanting to prevent me from eating what I wish
Fuck off and do your own thing
>>172183
>saving lives isn't charity
>working in EMT isn't charity
I do more for society than you faggot, I guarantee it
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>>172185
humans matter more than cows

cows matter more than plants

do you follow my logic here?
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>>172184
A chicken is food for humans.
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>>172186


>If you hold a chicken at the same level as a man your clinically insane.
I don't

I merely hold animals above the plants. Which is something everybody agrees with.
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>>172189
and humans are above animals therefore we eat animals and plants.
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>>172190
humans are above animals

animals are above plants

>THAT MEANS ANIMALS DON'T MATTER

No you fucking imbecile. You do not follow the logic.
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>>172189
>I don't
>saying "others" toward animals as if they were remotely comparable to us at any level, moral or physical
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>>172191
Humans are better then other animals therefore we eat both.
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>>172192
Are you just going to try and misrepresent what I say now

like nobody else can read the thread
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>>172184
What you posted is not a refutation of the consumtion of meat, in fact you just confirmed what me and the other anon were arguing.
Animals and plants are both below humans, therefor it's morally justified to eat both.
The only idiot here is you with your high and mighty new age post-history "IT'S THE CURRENT YEAR!" crap. Where you unironically believe you are morally superior to pretty much every other human being who is or who ever was.
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>>172195
Is it worse to kill a cow or a flower?
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>>172196
Depends how much the flower is worth
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>>172197
you not answering the simplest or moral dilemmas is an admission that you have no interest in the topic
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>>172196
both are fine as long as one is not endangered or at risk of extinction they should be enjoyed by future generations of humans.
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>>172199
I asked what is worse, you moron.

You don't have the intellectual honesty for a discussion like this.
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>>172198
A flower is an endlessly prolific piece of flora that has no repercussions for death

A cow is an essentially endlessly prolific piece of fauna that has no repercussions for death other than human satisfaction and feeding families

I see no issue with eachother,furfag.
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>>172201
you're an enormous pussy who can't bare to glance in the mirror
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>>172200
Depends if one is at risk of extinction. The one at risk of extinction should be saved as the other matters less.
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>>172202
>projecting this hard
I feel like your insecure. Its a fucking cow. What the hell is your problem? They are all identical, and are bred incredibly often. They arent going extinct,and they dont suffer because they lack that brain function and a soul in general
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>>172203
I'll make things easier.
In this scenario, It is my pet cow and my "pet" flower.

I have millions of them. It makes no difference to any system if I kill 1 or both.

So now, which is worse to kill? A FLOWER or A COW.

Fucking coward.
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>>172204
>they dont suffer because they lack that brain function and a soul in general

Cows are huge land mammals that love and nurture their offspring.
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>>172205
Whatever one I need to kill gets killed. If im hungry its the cow. If I need something from the flower I'll pick the flower. Whats so hard about your brain to wrap around this, Mister Superior?
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>>172202
A census taker once tried to test me, I ate his liver with some farver beans and a nice chianti.
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>>172205
Neither is worse both are your property you can do with it what you want it would be worse if I illegally destroyed your property as you did not consent.
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>>172207
You are such a pussy

>>172209
this has got to be an intelligence issue
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>>172206
Many insects nurture their young as well, and "love" is wholly misleading to what is a basic function. Nurturing does not imply a soul, it implies basic instincts to ensure youth don't die. Literally every animal short of cellular organisms do this. Big fucking whoop.
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>>172208
Lol sorry I couldn't resist but yeah what this guy
>>172204
said hits the nail on the head.
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>>172210
>AD HOM
>AD HOM
>AD HOM
>COWARD, MY ARBITRARY MORALS ARE BEING INFRINGED BY YOUR OPINION
>AD HOM

you are pathetic and have no decent argument outside of "my feelings." We've provided arguments that are valid, how killing livestock is essential to feed populations,but no "INTELLIGENCE ISSUE XDDDD"
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>>172210
Animals and plants are both as expendable they exist to serve man, the time I care is if one is at risk of extinction as our resources should be renewable for future generations to enjoy.
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>>172211
You believe in souls?

Yet you kill on a daily basis, when you could eat plants instead?

You better hope that the prophets wrote the bible down correctly and God really doesn't give a shit about all that life you're tormenting.
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>>172215
God allows animal sacrifice.
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>>172215
You don't understand Christianity, the Bible, or Religion in general if you think thats an argument. They were specifically created , WITHOUT souls or being, for the expense and hurtle of man.
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>>172213
>>AD HOM
This means nothing coming from someone who can't be honest enough to stop killing. I can make as many "fallacies" as I want.

You are dishonest to the core. You eat animals that scream in terror.
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>>172218
Can't kill what isn't alive to begin with. Stop stepping on grass and swatting at bugs, you fucking hypocrite. Take your Carnism and Vegan Gluten Free Supplement Pills and shove them. And no, they dont scream in terror. They exist in contempt,have a basic pain response,and cease to exist. Learn biology.
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>>172216
>>172217
Do you really think I give a fuck about your bullshit?

Stop trying to change the subject. We're talking about how much unecessary suffering you cause on a daily basis.
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>>172221
Humans are better then animals science and religion both agree.
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>>172221
*2+2=4*
>Do you really think I give a fuck about your bullshit? Stop giving answers to the argument I'm presenting to you
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>>172210
Aaah yes, not only are you morally superior but you are also far more intelligent than everyone else here, that must be whats happening.
It can't possibly be that there are people who just have different opinions than you, and like other anons have said you really do stink of insecurity, the way you constantly have to bolester yourself with asertions of moral and intelectual superiority.
Now go drink some seman, it's vegetarian and a source of norishment, I hear you can also consume it from the sourse as a suppository.
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>>172220
>Stop stepping on grass and swatting at bugs, you fucking hypocrite.
When the carnist makes this "argument" he subtly admits that he understands killing is wrong.

And of course you understand that it's worse to kill higher beings(human, animal) over lesser beings(plants, bacteria).

but you've been killing so long now, it hurt to acknowledge it. Or are you dead inside?
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>>172225
For one, stop projecting. Its a fallacy and doesn't help your big boy anime facade.

Two, killing is wrong, up until a point. Killing is wrong in human legality because it harms human functionality. Killing a cow is not wrong, because killing a cow improves the human condition. Basic economics, basic morals.

Animals lack souls, Animals and Fauna/Flora lack being.
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>>172224
>you are also far more intelligent than everyone else here
It's not exactly intelligence but a matter of honesty with myself, which is probably related to my IQ.

I cannot forget that animals are in pain. When I see meat, I know it's an animal. I guess your brain sees ,"FOOD" and you don't think about anything else?

When I see those animals on their way to the slaughterhouse, it stays with me. But others, it doesn't connect.

I remember eating meat, and I couldn't do it very long. So I can only assume you're lacking something.
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>>172227
Or maybe your the broken one? People like you are a smaller minority than homosexuals and shit, even schizos. YOUR the broken,abnormal one. But thats a cruel term so let me just say your the unique little gentlemen here.
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>>172226
>killing is wrong
yes
>killing a cow improves the human condition
no
>souls
oh no it's retarded
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>>172230
>yes
Good
>no
Yes it does. It provides food. Not everyone can afford your expensive, supplement ridden diet, or they lack the locality of farmers markets.
>oh no its retarded
Bashing my faith are we? Very un-tolerant of you.
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>>172229
So humans that kill are normal

But humans with powerful empathy are broken

I think you might be an idiot
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>>172232
Human empathy is for HUMANS.
People who have empathy for inanimate or lesser objects are what we call "oversensitive" and "rather crazy."

Do not thinking moaning and bitching over a plate of chicken is comparable to mourning over a lost relative,because it isn't.
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>>172231
>Very un-tolerant of you.
You kill animals for no reason every time you eat

Yes I am very untolerant of that you stupid bitch

please eat plants instead of killing mammals and birds
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What kind of underage back and forth is this?
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>>172234
I don't kill anything, the factory does it for me and I buy it. Maybe once a year I might control the harmfully growing deer population with my Rifle.

I already eat beans, asparagus, cabbage and broccoli, all heavily seasoned, I love it. But if you try to take wings, chicken breast or steak from me I'll show you the meaning of intolerance you elitist cunt. Do you work for a living,by chance?
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>>172232
If by "powerful empathy" you mean insufferable faggotry then yes.
But what you feel isn't empathy, you just feel dishonest superiority.
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>>172232
Being too empathic is a negative, not a plus.

>>172233
Human empathy is for everything, you tard.
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>>172233
I've had to define several words now


Definition of empathy

1
: the imaginative projection of a subjective state into an object so that the object appears to be infused with it

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/empathy

Anyway I'm going to stop posting now. If anyone has any questions at all feel free to ask.

I would love to help you be vegan. I need to go cut fruit and chew nuts.

>>172236
There's something else you can do with that rifle.

>>172237
I don't really feel superior I feel average and normal. It think most people are too, but this world has got us so confused. And the human brain aids in this sort of lazy dishonest thinking.

>>172238
It doesn't feel that way to me. I can't imagine not caring about the beings around me.

I wish I could grasp it all. Bye now. Please give this some though.

You all can make a big difference. Some estimate ~200 animals a year are saved by going vegan.
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>>172240
I see your girlfriend has just told you that her bull for the evening needs prepping.

Bye retard, maybe one day you'll grow up but I somehow doubt it.
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>>172023
However the definition of justification is "a : to prove or show to be just, right, or reasonable"
and the definition of just is "a : having a basis in or conforming to fact or reason"
So we're back to Socrate's question "What is justice?" since the definitions are circular.
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>>172085
>I have a problem with you KILLING ANIMALS.
I don't kill animals but still eat meat. checkmate vegans
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>>172189
>Which is something everybody agrees with.
I disagree, I think everyone would agree that you can hold an animal above a plant based on it's monetary or sentimental value. Would you cut down a 1000 year old tree to save a cow? Would you value a $100 orchid as lesser than a single chicken?
I wouldn't in either case.
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>>170951
yeah but it would've been lost property and then owners would have to pay to buy/breed/raise some new ones.

Plus it wasn't a loss to them if one or two them goes just for sausages.
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nice thread
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>>171321
>
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/antioxidants/
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>>171326
>suffering
What about shellfish m9?
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>>171330
Still no explanations for incisors remtard
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>>171347
>being healthy
Majority of Physicians say a healthy balanced diet containing portions from every part of the eat well plate is better than any other diet you spaz
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>>171357

>It really looks like it's in pain. And they central nervous system. This is a myth that makes fishing more fun, sorry.

Ahem...Behavioural responses to noxious stimuli are not necessarily evidence of pain

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4356734/
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>>172234

>No reason

We kill animals for sport <3

I like taking a shot with a 22. cal sniper rifle to their legs and watching them crawl for safety then I follow the bloody trail and stick my knife through its neck into it's brain mmmmmmmm
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Lmao americans
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>>171330
Humans

1. Do not possess significant quantities of the enzymes required to digest cellulose like gorillas do.
2. Have a much reduced cecum (effectively a vestigial organ in man) and colon compared to every herbivorous primate.
3. Have a much enlarged small intestine compared to every herbivorous primate.

Meat eating by tool using primates has been attested since Australopithecus times.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK53561/
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>>172339

Oh god, this whole post just reeks of 13 year old.
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>>171376
>are you serious?
Yes, do you have any rational counter argument?
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There is literally nothing wrong with killing animals.
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>>171492
Next time you want to post that link, do everyone a favor and post http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1089/rej.2006.0529 instead. This is the only study that matters in the list of sources cited there.
Also please read https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4145307/
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>>172392
Other studies more suited to this discussion than nutritionfacts:
https://www.omicsonline.org/open-access/nutrigenetics-of-japanese-vegetarians-with-polymorphism-in-the-fatty-acid-desaturase-2155-9600-1000498.php?aid=72705
http://www.nature.com/ejcn/journal/v71/n5/full/ejcn2016274a.html
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>>172311
>What is justice?
Justice is killing trillions of animals instead of simply eating plants.

Oh wait, that's not justice. At all.

>>172313
You're paying someone to kill for you. That is killing.

And you know exactly what you're doing. When you buy bacon, you are paying the slaughterhouses to raise and kill another pig.

>>172316

>Would you cut down a 1000 year old tree to save a cow?
Notice how you had to use 1 THOUSAND trees to compare to 1 cow. And you admit that in order for a flower to be worth more than a cow, it must be some remarkably rare orchid.

You have accidentally shown that a cow's life is worth more than a plants.

So you do agree that it's worse to kill animals than plants, you're just dishonest.

>>172325
Are you trying to imply that eating antioxidant rich foods (plants) is somehow not healthy

You know, you don't have to drag this discussion into the most ridiculous areas imaginable.

It seems like the more data we have to show fruits and vegetables are healthy (obvious shit) the more people start to doubt it. You really don't have to be this way, you know that fruit is healthy you fucking idiot.
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>>172326
What about pigs? What about cows? What about chickens, goats, lamb, turkey, duck, geese, horses, donkey, ostriches, moose, deer, and turtles?

You don't have to care about shellfish.
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>>172333

A vegan whole food diet is the only diet proven to reverse heart disease, which is our number 1 killer. No meat diet can do that.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19562864

>Position of the American Dietetic Association: vegetarian diets.
>It is the position of the American Dietetic Association that appropriately planned vegetarian diets, including total vegetarian or vegan diets, are healthful, nutritionally adequate, and may provide health benefits in the prevention and treatment of certain diseases.
>Well-planned vegetarian diets are appropriate for individuals during all stages of the life cycle, including pregnancy, lactation, infancy, childhood, and adolescence, and for athletes.
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>>172363
No you're right. vegans secretly want more animals to die that meat eaters.

you're the compassionate one for supporting slaughter every meal. great job.
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>>172392
>>172393
I notice that you're just posting links without any substance

That's quite cowardly. Do you have a point? Every video on nutiritionfacts.org is just examining the latest science. That's Dr. Greger's mission, to uncover the truth about what the food industries are keeping from us. It's just like the tobacco companies.
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>>172379
It's wrong because the animals you kill are living, loving beings with families. They feel terror when they're carted to the slaughthouse.

They know what's coming because they've felt it before. Chickens already had their beaks burned off. Pigs had their tails clamped off. Cows had their horns removed. They've been stabbed and tossed around all their lives and it ends with 1 more knife to their throat.

...Or you could eat a bowl of oatmeal. Or some peanuts. Or your regular cereal with a vegan milk.
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So mr vegan, what's your proof that animals are morally equivalent to humans?

>>172423
>Oh wait, that's not justice. At all.
You still haven't defined justice.

>You're paying someone to kill for you. That is killing.
No that is not the same.
If I pay someone to take a test for me, I have not taken the test. If I pay someone to lift weights for me, I have not lifted the weights.

>Notice how you had to use 1 THOUSAND trees
notice how you didn't read my post? It said "thousand year old" not "thousand trees"
>And you admit that in order for a flower to be worth more than a cow, it must be some remarkably rare orchid.
Wow look at that; you admit that it's possible to be worse to kill a plant over an animal.
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>>172439
Are you suggesting that killing billions of animals instead of eating plants IS justice?


>what's your proof that animals are morally equivalent to humans?
I never said this and it's irrelevant

>>172439
>If I pay someone to take a test for me, I have not taken the test. If I pay someone to lift weights for me, I have not lifted the weights.

Paying an assassin to kill is different than murder? You might want to try that in court.

>>172439
>It said "thousand year old" not "thousand trees"
It's the same thing. In order for the tree to be equal to the cow, you needed it to be 1 THOUSAND years old.

Why isn't a regular tree equal to a regular cow? Is it because animals are worth more than plants and that is exceedingly obvious?
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>>171075
My bro.
Vegetarians and vegans are true heroes.
Sadly peoples taste buds are so enslaved to meat that even the word vegetarian or vegan strikes fear into the core of meat eaters and they will use all means to justify their way of life.
Promoting plant based diets to meat eaters is literally like talking to a brick wall
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>>172535
This movement is growing, especially in Europe. We are slowly ending this madness.

But I have to disagree about vegetarians. They eat cheese, milk, eggs, and wear animals. It doesn't help animals to give up beef for milk, it's the same industry. Let's be honest, vegetarians cheat with meat on occasion too.

I was vegetarian before I went vegan and I was mistaken. It's like that bullshit virtue signaling meat eaters campaign against vivisection. It's like they care for animals, but not enough to risk alienation from carnists.
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>>172542
>This movement is growing, especially in Europe.
>Europe
Enjoy halal friend.
If you don't you are an Islamophobe.
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>>172542
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/animals-and-us/201412/84-vegetarians-and-vegans-return-meat-why
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>>172423

Nah I was just sayin that antioxidants aren't proven to reverse cancer, there is little evidence to support it and the intelligent non vegan (the majority of them) scientists can't be fucked to deal with you people (vegans).

There's nothing you can do about your problem with people killing and eating animals as most people disagree with your opinions and beliefs.
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>>172363
We pay them so we don't have to deal with anarchists like you trying to burn slaughter houses and 'freeing' our fucking food.
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>>172575
Kms
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>>172178
Love it when Vegans use made up science <3 (You're a cuck)
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>>172441
>Are you suggesting that killing billions of animals instead of eating plants IS justice?
Could be, it depends upon how you define justice.

>I never said this and it's irrelevant
It's hardly irrelevant if someone

>Paying an assassin to kill is different than murder?
yes, at least morally
>You might want to try that in court.
a court will uphold that a corporation is a person, so I won't take any moral advice from them. Also many courts have various "degrees of murder" such as first degree and manslaughter, so your generalization of the term murder is misplaced.
>It's the same thing.
hardly, if paying someone to murder someone else meant that I murdered them, then I could pay someone else to lift weights for me and I'd get strong.

>In order for the tree to be equal to the cow, you needed it to be 1 THOUSAND years old.
That was but one example. I'd choose even a 10 year old tree over a cow anytime.
>Why isn't a regular tree equal to a regular cow?
would you care to define what a regular tree is and what a regular cow is? how old is a regular cow, what weight is it, is it still fertile, etc? what kind of tree is a regular tree, how tall is it, how old is it, etc?
>Is it because animals are worth more than plants and that is exceedingly obvious?
I don't know, it depends on the comparison of animal to plant you're making. In fact a number of animals that you've mentioned are probably worth more dead than alive.
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>>172441
Although humans who adopt vegetarian or vegan diets show healthier lifestyles than people who eat meat doesnt mean that is incorrect to eat animals, you might feel guilty because you believe that they might have emotions but what are emotions without consciousness of your environment and self awareness of who you are, its easy to see that this is what most animals lack therefore should we feel conflicted about killing them if its to feed the population, i mean, do you really think if we just stopped killing cows, fishes, chickens and such things would get better, because at the moment your dream comes true a good portion of the people in the world will just die of starvation, we didnt just started eating meat since a few hundred of years ago, this is the way things have been since we were banging rocks like morons in caves thousands of years ago, and for good reason, just as a wolf devours a deer, we do what we need to do to keep ourselves alive and if that is eating meat, well, so be it.
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>>172579
>if paying someone to murder someone else meant that I murdered them, then I could pay someone else to lift weights for me and I'd get strong.
This is your brain on cow cheese
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>>172587
Still haven't proved contrary short of "no, my interpretation's correct!" and character attacks.
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>>172591
Proved what? You are ridiculous. It's hilarious you complain of character attacks.

NO SHIT I am attacking your character. You know damn well what factory farming is yet you still support it. You're all lying to yourself to justify bad habits like a damn alcoholic.

But this is much worse than what druggies do, because (obviously) you're killing innocent beings.
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>>172575
No, you pay them because that's what's most convenient for you. There is no justice here. You're just thoughtlessly eating.
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>>172592
killing animals should be rejected unless necessary for survival and that's case in the world we live now, unless you can prove that animals have beliefs, desires or the ability to initiate action in pursuit of goals, everything you'll say it's pointless. Most likely the only reason you adhere to veganism its because it makes you feel like you're in the moral high ground.
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>>172573
>(the majority of them)
Things are changing. There was once a time when doctors smoked cigarettes. More and more doctors are understanding that animals are unhealthy.

https://www.forksoverknives.com/why-the-president-of-the-american-college-of-cardiology-wants-heart-disease-patients-to-eat-vegan-diets/#gs.9w5B0Ss
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>>172592
Using formal logic:
given
xKy: x kills y
xPy: x pays y
i: me
s: someone else
a: animal
prove that
(iPs & sKa) -> iKa

you may add additional premises as you wish but their validity might be called into question

also you seem to have forgotten the other refutations raised in >>172579
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>>172584
>you might feel guilty because you believe that they might have emotions

No, I feel guilty because of the physical pain they endure, mostly.

This isn't any more complicated than that.
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>>172595
Killing animals isn't necessary at all. So why do you support it?

Feeling superior is only a side effect of retarded ass conversations like this. Imagine how you'd feel if you often heard that "animals can't even feel pain"?
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>>172598
>you seem to have forgotten the other refutations raised in
I'll explain. I think that stupidity is somewhat contagious. Your posts are like pile of rotting dead corpses and I don't want to get ebola.
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>>172600
It is necessary, many people cannot afford time or money to dedicate what its almost a change in their way of living or buy the products to sustain it, especially the impoverished communities and families which composed the majority of the world. I agree with you that slaughterhouses put animals through what can only be described as pain and suffering but why should that matter when animals are not conscious of their existence? .
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>>172603
you can't refute them so you resort to character attacks? vegans really can't be reasoned with then.
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>>172607
Who are you talking about? Alaskan eskimos hunting whales?

Anyone who gets food from grocery store you can be vegan. Rice, beans, bananas, sunflower seeds, peanuts, you get the point. These foods are much cheaper than animal products.
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>>172608
Maybe you should reread those posts because there is no possible way I can reason with that.
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>>172611
what is your moral system? utilitarianism or something else?
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>>172612
my moral system is not killing animals when you can just eat plants.
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>>172613
so what's your reasoning behind NKAWYCJEP?
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>>172614
Which diet is more ethical, and diet that kills 2 chicken per year or a diet that kills 100 pigs per year?
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>>172615
it depends upon which ethical system you are using
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>>172616
coward
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>>172616
How about a diet that kills 1 cow vs a diet that kills 1 million cows? Which is worse?

Is this one subjective too?
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>>172617
what am i cowardly for? can't have ethics without defining them.
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>>172619
you don't have the courage to confront this issue>>172618


these questions couldn't be any simple.
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>>172618
is that a diet for a single person? 1 person can hardly approach eating 1 million cows in their lifetime. that situation is ridiculous, however I'd say that they're equal, even if one is impossible.
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>>172620
autoupdate was off and I paused to think before hitting the post button, sorry for the extra effort.
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>>172621
Just to be clear

You're saying that killing 1 million cows isn't more unethical than killing 1 cow
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>>172623
nope, you're still killing cows in either case
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>>172624
Okay how about killing 1 quadrillion cows

isn't that worse than killing just 1 cow?
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>>172625
one clarification, you brought up the million cows thing in relation to a diet. So a quadrillion, a million or even just one are all equivalent if the then dead cows are being utilized. People you dub "carnists" don't kill cows and just leave them there to rot, not intentionally at least.
In fact, in the usa there've been 28,752,000 (http://www.humanesociety.org/news/resources/research/stats_slaughter_totals.html?) cattle killed for food alone. How can I say all of that food utilized is any worse than killing one cow for food?
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>>172627
as I said, you are a coward.
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>>172623
Its more ethical, its a statistic
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>>171058
Not even that. If we were born to eat plants we wouldn't have eyes on the front of our heads
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>>170951
>"This is just what we do - we are not an animal sanctuary. We give the pigs the best opportunity and the best life they could have for six months," she said. "They won't be kept inside. They are outdoors and fed with organic food which is grown on the farm."
this is what hedonists believe


HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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>>172598
prove that you can use the material implication
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>>172225
>And of course you understand that it's worse to kill higher beings(human, animal) over lesser beings(plants, bacteria).
>it is okay to kill things I have faith that I cannot avoid to kill

rationalist 101
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>>172171
>>if you cared, you would stop causing them pain.
I am such an hedonist that if I think someone feels pain I claim it is bad what happens to them
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>>172076
>>there is nothing healthy about cholesterol. ANY of it is bad for you, and you likely eat it with every meal.
>
>when you eat cholesterol, it hardens and thickens your arteries. saturated fat also does this, which all meat has.
>
>you know what else meat has, you ignorant fuck, TRANS FATS. YES all meat has trans fats. Why isn't it banned? Because people like you don't really care about being healthy.
this is what readers of women magazine believe
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>>171199
>>I don't even give a fuck about all the human suffering in the world, why would I care about animals?
This. Pleasures are good, what would I care about the source of my pleasures as long as I can have it for cheap ?
People who are against hedonism are life-denying morons
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>>172430
>loving
Fuck you got me 10/10
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>>172668
He got alot of us. Takes dedication and skill to get a /news/ thread to the bump limit by sheer force of shitposting
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>>172671
I did not used to hate vegans but after this thread I do.
>>
Remember back before the reddit invasion when people generally knew better than to feed trolls? Those sure were the days.
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>>172631
It's more ethical to kill 1 million cows than to kill 1 cow

This is the sort of logic you deal with as a vegan. You really are an embarrassment to the human race.

>>172639
>If we were born to eat plants we wouldn't have eyes on the front of our heads
That's brilliant. I guess slaughtering billions of animals (instead of plants) is morally justified?

Because of our eyes. Never mind that koalas have eyes on the front, for hunting leaves. And some predators have eyes on the side, like snakes and sharks.
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>>172650
So you disagree with it's worse to kill higher beings(human, animal) vs lower beings(plants bacteria)

explain your reasoning here because it seems pretty retarded
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>>172652
So you don't think pain is bad

how idiotic can you get? the level of idiocy in this thread is really something. it seems like in order to "justify" killing animals you have to reduce your mental clarity. Fascinating.
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>>172712
How am I trolling? I just want you to stop killing 200 animals per year. They don't like being stabbed with knives and electrocuted with rods.
Please stop. Go vegan. It's better for you anyway.


>>172671
>>172668

you don't think animals love their babies?

here's a video of a rat fighting a SNAKE to get it's baby back

rats make shit loads of kids, it makes zero evolutionary sense for her to fight this snake. But she LOVES that kid and doesn't give a fuck.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-NRKLGu7qk

spoiler: the snake loses
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>>170951
haha genius
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>>172694
Why would you hate me? I'm just trying to make the world a less violent place.

Don't you want the world to be less bloody too?

In an ideal world humans would kill as few animals as necessary. This is something everyone agrees with. I'm here to tell you that veganism is how we achieve that.

It is the single greatest difference you can make to this world. Unless you have another way to save 200 lives per year.
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>>172738
I really applaud the dedication. This is going to be the second time in board history something hit the bump limit. All thanks to your ability to
>Totally ignore all opposing views and cultures
>Totally ignore all opposing white papers on anything opposing your worldview
>Maintain an ideology that is based entirely on lowering yourself to the position of cattle/chickens but mocking anyone with the spine to be a predator
>Strawman and shift goalposts literally every post to the point where the thread looks like scarecrows playing handegg against mannequins on mars
And STILL people reply. Its the most obvious and irresistible bait imaginable.
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>>172745
You're bringing up a lot of irrelevant stuff

Animals feel pain. You can eat animals OR plants. So why cause pain? That's an immoral decision.

you're desperate to make this more complicated than this. stop causing suffering for no reason! Eat a plant instead!
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>>172747
>Irrelevant
I just cant stop myself, its partially the self righteousness, but the blinding ignorance makes it infuriating. You mistake sentience for sapience and since you ignore all other evidence I am going to assume explaining the dofference would go over your head and be met with platitudes or some cultural idiom that doesnt actually mean anything. Its as if you seriously believe all fauna have central nervous systems. Or that plants dont react to external stimuli with the same speed as some animals. Even if you believe this, I will respond until we hit that sweet 500
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>>172745
>Totally ignore all opposing views and cultures
Which culture/view makes it ethical to unnecessarily kill animals?
>Totally ignore all opposing white papers on anything opposing your worldview
Which white paper makes it ethical to unnecessarily kill animals?
>Maintain an ideology that is based entirely on lowering yourself to the position of cattle/chickens
Must one reduce oneself to a chicken to understand it's unethical to unnecessarily kill animals?
>mocking anyone with the spine to be a predator
Does "having a spine" make it ethical to unnecessarily kill animals?

>Strawman and shift goalposts literally every post to the point where the thread looks like scarecrows playing handegg against mannequins on mars
What is this? Is there an argument here?
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>>172751
>self righteousness
How am self-righteous

Everyone knows that isn't wrong to kill animals for no reason. You're being an idiot.

>>172751
>Its as if you seriously believe all fauna have central nervous systems
...no plants don't have a CNS. that's why it's ethical to eat them.

but animals do have a CNS. they feel pain. it's wrong to eat them, when you can eat a plant.
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>>172751
>I just cant stop myself
the reason you reply is because you're looking to justify your bad habits.

maybe you need me to say something rude. or maybe you need to lie to yourself. I've seen it a lot. maybe you need to find a good habit and focus on that, like maybe you always make a complete stop at stop signs. gj.

but you will not make any rational case that killing animals is good, because it's ridiculous. so just keep telling yourself that vegans are self righteous, that'll make the chicken nuggets go down easier.

but the birds are going to get their beaks removed whether you acknowledge it or not.
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>>172753
>Unnecessary
>Unnecessarily
>Unnecessary
What makes it unnecessary? Because you can afford to use supplements and import food from all over the hemisphere to get around your biology, many of which exploit humans in third world countries? Because youve become enlightened since you read some quacks theory that death is a foodborne illness? You dont get to decide whats ethical and just for all. You cant even defend the health benefits so you fall on a vague notion that alive + sentient = deserves protection.

You cant even make an argument since you cant think of anything when it comes to animals besides singing and dancing disney cartoons. Its a fucking bird. If I dont remove its beak it will kill the chicken next to it. If any of them taste blood they will start eating the other birds, including chicks. If I dont have 30k hunters killing deer in the northeast, the deer kill themselves against 20k cars and cost human lives. If farmers collectively stop raising cattle for slaughter, that breed literally goes extinct and my useless hillside pasture still wont grow anything but weeds. Maybe you should learn even the bare basics of agriculture before shitting on people for everything your lily white limp wrists finds appaling about the meat industry. To be a vegan takes a privileged life, far from any want for food or shelter. To be a sanctimonious faggot about it is to go beyond and imply that was your entire life, and you couldnt fathom anyone else being any different unless they were evil or stupid.

Preachy, holier than though vegans are the absolute worst. You are ignorant of the world around you but that wont stop you preaching horseshit.
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>>172755
The gnats I swat every day while you cry each have their own CNS. Every ant, every cockroach.

Vegans are the ultimate in double standards. They pick and choose which animals they want to protect based on credulous arguments they're never able to prove in a laboratory setting. Lobsters bad, swatting flies good. Honey bad, deriving human medicines from insect byproducts good.

>b-b-but sentience stops where I WANT IT TO STOP

This is the thought process of a child.
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>>172755
>no plants don't have a CNS. that's why it's ethical to eat them.
>but animals do have a CNS. they feel pain. it's wrong to eat them, when you can eat a plant.
There are plants with rudimentary nervous systems. There are animals, mostly within arthropods, insects and mollusks, that do not have a CNS.

You are applying moral equivelence to beings that do not have culture, innovation or the sublimation of base instincts. It is a fundamental flaw to the vegan/vegetarian ethical outlook to apply a moral and ethical equality to things that hold no sense of morality or ethics. Do you shame cod for eating smaller fish? Was there ever a pack of wolves that would forgo a deer with young that couldnt outrun the wolves because itd be wrong?
>B-b-but you are just lowering yourself to an animal!
Wrong again, I am where I belong in the world. You are trying to raise animals to us, and in the process lower yourself to cattle.
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>>172777
All arthropods have a CNS.

http://www.cell.com/current-biology/pdf/S0960-9822(16)30857-0.pdf

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4650122/
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>>172755
>plants don't have a CNS
While it is not centralized, plants absolutely do have a nervous system. Heck, anesthetics work on it the same way as our own. They can absolutely sense damage and transmit that information along electrical signals. They also have some capacity for memory/learning as well as communication and exchange between plants. I'm not trying to anthropomorphisize plants, but they are fascinatingly complex. Moreso than some animals.

>plant learning
https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/experience-teaches-plants-to-learn-faster-and-forget-slower-in-0ZgFoH4IWe

>information signaling
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC54818/

>exchange of material goods
http://www.plantphysiol.org/content/159/2/789
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/352/6283/342
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>>172761
>What makes it unnecessary?
You don't need to eat animals.

Plants are cheaper than animal products, so there's no excuse.
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>>172773
Vegans reduce suffering as much as possible.

Mosquitoes have nothing to do with this. You don't need to kill animals to eat. Buy some beans.

Maybe you do need to swat mosquitoes. But you don't need to kill pigs.
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>>172777
>There are animals, mostly within arthropods, insects and mollusks, that do not have a CNS.
Okay?

Pigs have a CNS. Chickens too. Cows do too. They scream in agony when they're stabbed.

How do you justify killing them over plants?
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>>172783
So we can eat and kill some animals but not others? Which can we eat which can we not?
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>>172778
It's wrong to unnecessarily kill them too.

It's wrong to kill animals when you don't need to.
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>>172785
I get reading is hard but there is much more post, including the answer to your question.
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>>172779
>I'm not trying to anthropomorphisize plants, but they are fascinatingly complex. Moreso than some animals.

Are you suggesting it's more ethical to kill plants vs animals?

Or is your entire point, "it's complicated." Because it's not.

Animals feel pain. Plant's don't feel pain. It's wrong to cause pain when you don't have to.
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>>172786
You can eat plants. That's the only ethical choice.
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>>172791
Plants feel pain though
>>172779
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>>172781
>Plants are cheaper
And lack any substantial amount of iron, b12, complex proteins etc. Really hit that ivory tower thing on the head.
>>172791
Oh wait youre just a facist that cant make an argument past "its wrong, you should be right like me"
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>>172790
I'm saying plants can feel pain, just as much as most animals out there can tell when they are hurt.
Become a Jain and live off of fruit and milk if you don't want to hurt living things. By your own specific definition, it isn't ethical to kill and eat plants.
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>>172792
You might have a negative IQ

>>172793
>iron
It's common in plant
>b12
Costs pennies
>protons
Please read something. Anything book at all.

>>172794
>it's actually serious
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>>172794
>By your own specific definition, it isn't ethical to kill and eat plants.
Does this justify killing animals for you?

If I'm a hypocrite, or imperfect, suddenly that frees you from any moral obligation?

Of course not. Killing animals because you're too lazy to change your diet is wrong.
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>>172807
Iron need pounds of plant for the same as an ounce of meat. If you think all peoteins are the same you need to pick up a book.

>>172809
>You must adhere to an ethical standard I myself do not adhere to
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>>172815
Iron isnt an issue. Neither are amino acids.

http://www.vrg.org/nutrition/iron.php
Dried beans and dark green leafy vegetables are especially good sources of iron, even better on a per calorie basis than meat. Iron absorption is increased markedly by eating foods containing vitamin C along with foods containing iron. Vegetarians do not have a higher incidence of iron deficiency than do meat eaters.


>>You must adhere to an ethical standard I myself do not adhere to
So you don't actually care about being ethical.
You're the kind of person who is only as ethical as his peers want him to be.

Can't you make moral judgements on your own?
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>>172819
>Do as I say not as I do
Also, you impose an ethical standard as if I should be ashamed. Doesnt really work when theres nothing to be ashamed of, especiaally when "Its wrong!" Is all youve said, ad nauseum. What there is to be ashamed of is your understanding of diet and nutrition. Not all proteins were created equal and spinach iron is largely wasted, it barely absorbs unless you go 1:1 with something high in Vit C, even then you are better off with beef if you want your body to actually use the iron
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>>172835
I want you to do as I do.

Be vegan. Don't kill any animals you don't have to.

But it's apparent that you simply don't care about other being's suffering. You're defective.
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>>172840
>I want you to do as I do.
No
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>>172843
Tell me

Are you too stupid to comprehend other being's suffering or are you just too cold to care?
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>>172848
and thats 500. Great thread everyone.

Maybe you should stop eating things with nervous systems if your broscience idea of pain is so important to prevent. Look up jainism and after a year or two someone may take you seriously
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>>172850
>Maybe you should stop eating things with nervous systems if your broscience idea of pain is so important to prevent

Plants don't feel pain, you idiot. They don't have a central nervous system.

>broscience
>reducing pain isn't important

Gotta love the insight we get from slaughterhouse advocates. These threads highlight how low the human mind can sink.
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>>172855
Plants have a fucking nervous system, complete with neurotransmitters, you dunce. It's not centralized, but it can still retain information, learn, perceive damage, warn others through multiple networks, be anesthetized, and react to real or simulated threats (like certain sounds).
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>>172858
but they don't feel pain. that's why it's better to eat them, instead of causing agony to mammals and birds.

this is extremely simple... stop paying people to stab cows with knives.
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>>172859
They feel it, they remember it, they scream to other plants about it.
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>>172859
And like all 'simple truths', it's bullshit. Unless you fund halal or kosher slaughterhouses nobody uses a knife on cattle these days. It's by gunshot or by captive bolt. Factory farmed animals are stunned and induced into cardiac arrest. It's a more peaceful fate then most men on Earth have or will undergo as they die.

>>172783
Suffering reduction is a worthless meme argument that has never be substantiated by hard numbers. Your life necessities revolve around animal products like it or not. Even if you cut out the entire meat consumer industry millions of cattle and chickens and pigs will still be slaughtered every year... because they're too useful to get rid of completely. It doesn't matter how smart a million pigs are as long as one human infant starves or suffers debilitating disease. A human can save a million pigs if they're clever enough. A million pigs can't save a human except by what byproducts they produce.

Vegans can't even impact global meat demand as is, so step #1 is quite far away. Most stories of supposed vegan virtuous countries are in fact varying degrees of ovo lacto vegetarianism and don't support the vast demolishing of all domestic stocks as you fantasize. Most semi-arid countries require ranching sectors in order to feed their population because it's just not good enough for cropland. America has a large ranching sector because it has large quantities of semi-arid terrain, much like Argentina or Australia or Chad does. It's not a factor of land usage, it's a factor of simple geography. Most ranching land is not suitable for intensive crop development. If you want to field the argument that the ranching sector can intensify runoff and desertification in vulnerable areas, I can agree with you, but this is a function of improper land management rather then the existence of domestic animals ipso facto.
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>>172868
>nobody uses a knife
false. they use a bolt gun to "stun" the animal, before slicing it's neck with a blade.

There is no common practice of slaughterhouses shooting animals in the head. That is a carnist delusion to make yourself feel better.

There is no painless way to kill these huge mammals and birds.

>>172868
>Suffering reduction is worthless
Then why do we have laws that require better treatment of farm animals?
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>>172868
>It's a more peaceful fate then most men on Earth have or will undergo as they die.
lol

okay so when you're about 55 and heart disease is kicking in, I'll do you a favor.

First I'm going to lock you in a cage. Then I'm going to remove unnecessary appendages that will get in my way (that means your ears, and your dick). Then when you've gotten fat enough I'll force you onto the back of a truck with my electric prod. Now we drive miles down to the slaughterhouse. Do you smell it? So what? With my prod I force you down the line. The smell is getting stronger. You're being forced into smaller and smaller areas, this doesn't look right. You want to go back on the truck. Anywhere but down that wet hall.

Now you've reached the end of the hall and you're all alone. SLAM now your neck is trapped in a vice. It hurts. What is that metal thing coming?

Does this sound peaceful to you?
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>>172875
Vegan lies.

>Then why do we have laws that require better treatment of farm animals?

Laws aimed at the distributor, not at consumption. Nobody is opposed to such laws. This is an example of vegan false dichotomy in action.

>>172880
PETA advertisement.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humane_Slaughter_Act
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>>172885
We have laws to protect the welfare of farm animals

in case you didn't know that

https://www.nal.usda.gov/awic/animal-welfare-act

but I don't really need to make the case that people care about animal suffering, do i?

You're being obscenely idiotic
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>>172885
Everything I posted there is what happens to the average farm animal

Despite the laws to protect them. That's all the protection a carnist cares to grant them.

But to even have the weakest law protecting them is an admission that their suffering matters and should be avoided.
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>>172885
here's some proof of my claims

pigs are castrated
>In the USA virtually all males are physically castrated at a young age (predominantly) with no anesthesia or analgesia (pain relief).
>http://www.depts.ttu.edu/animalwelfare/Research/PigCastration/

chickens have their beaks cut off
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debeaking

cowns are dehorned or their head cauterized to stop horn growth
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livestock_dehorning

baby male chicks ground up alive
>http://www.cbc.ca/news/male-chicks-ground-up-alive-at-egg-hatcheries-1.823644

This is what you support when you buy animal foods.
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>>172885
I could go on

cows have their tails removed
>http://www.askthefarmers.com/why-do-so-many-dairy-farmers-cut-their-cows-tails-off/

pigs have their tails removed
>The pain of tail-docking: a fact of life for millions of pigs

THEY EVEN CLIP PIG'S TEETH
>https://www.ciwf.com/farm-animals/pigs/welfare-issues/tooth-clipping/
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>>170952
fpbp
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>this thread
good god
I've never been more grateful I live next to so many mexicans and thier delicious food.
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>Killing and eating animals is morally and ethically wrong
>on the other side of the coin
>Intensive farming practices produce more and cheaper food per acre and animal, which has helped feed a booming human population and may prevent surrounding land from being converted into agricultural land, but has grown to become the biggest threat to the global environment through the loss of ecosystem services and global warming, has led to the emergence of new parasites and re-emergence of parasites previously considered to be 'under control' by creating the conditions for parasite growth and is responsible for 80% of tropical deforestation. Furthermore, intensive farming kills beneficial insects and plants, degrades and depletes the very soil it depends on, creates polluted runoff and clogged water systems, increases susceptibility to flooding, causes the genetic erosion of crops and livestock species around the world, decreases biodiversity, destroys natural habitats and, according to WWF, "Farming practices, livestock, and clearing of land for agriculture are significant contributors to the build-up of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere."

http://www.stockholmresilience.org/research/researchnews/isfeedingninebillionpeoplepossible.5.668e42d4131b5c9d513800014998.html

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2987527/

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/65505/6316-drivers-deforestation-report.pdf

http://wwf.panda.org/what_we_do/footprint/agriculture/impacts/climate_change/

No matter what we do someone is getting fucked, vegans are not better than meat eaters and viceversa, i dont feel bad eating meat because is retarded to think that a cow or a chicken could do something of worth for themselves, this world or us other than being food, after all they are just animals, they live by instinct, they dont think, the only difference by letting them go free is that instead of us eating them is the predators that will maul them to dead.
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how come this tread got so damn many replies
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>>172929
see
>>170952
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>>172929
Successful troll was successful.
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>>172921
>vegans are not better than meat eaters
Vegans cause less death and suffering than meat eaters. About 200 animals per year.

Simple math proves that vegans are more ethical. It takes an entire acre to raise a cow or some shit, your diet is disgustingly inefficient.
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>>172939
Do you find it unusual that I don't want you to kill animals?

How could this possibly be trolling. I just want you to stop killing 200 animals per year.

For fuck's sake they cut off piglet's teeth. HAVE A HEART!
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>>172747
>So why cause pain? That's an immoral decision.
Only to a utilitarian which also includes animals in their moral calculus.
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>>172755
>How am self-righteous
this post right here
>>172170
>I am charity in the essence I save lives
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>>172950
Pain is pain. It's horrible. And animals are innocent.

What did cow ever do to deserve this torment?
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>>172952
We've been over this. Veganism meets the definition of charity.


>Definition of charity

>generosity and helpfulness especially toward the needy or suffering

>https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/charity
Every time I buy food I support ending animal slaughter. I go out of my way to avoid harming animals. I deal with retards like you on a daily basis.

You're a selfish piece of shit though.
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>>172954
So when I buy something vegan, I'm also a charity? Feels good to do charity work every time I make chicken noodle soup.

>>172953
>Pain is pain.
Wow a tautology, how insightful.
>It's horrible.
Sorry but I demand proof for this statement. Sure pain doesn't feel good, but that's only because your brain makes it so. Also pain serves a basic function the body to alert the brain when something bad is going on. As an example, if you're cutting vegetables and you hit the top of your finger, you stop quicker because of the pain you receive.
If pain is so horrible, then shouldn't you be morally obligated to cut people's nerves so they can't feel such a horrible thing anymore?

>What did cow ever do to deserve this torment?
Tell me, what's the ideal life for a cow then? Good lucking finding out from one though, they can't think!
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>>172945
Nobody's hands are free from the blood of animals, not even vegetarians, for exaple the nitrogen-rich compounds found in fertilizer runoff are the primary cause of serious oxygen depletion in many parts of oceans, especially in coastal zones, lakes and rivers which resulting lack of dissolved oxygen greatly reduces the ability of these areas to sustain oceanic fauna. Agrochemicals and monoculture have been implicated in Colony Collapse Disorder, honeybees perform some level of pollination of nearly 75% of all plant species directly used for human food worldwide, catastrophic loss of honeybees could have significant impact in our world. It is estimated that seven out of the 60 major agricultural crops in North American economy would be lost, and this is only for one region of the world, because of agriculture. Danm, do i even have to remind you about the deforestation of the Amazon rainforest, until 2006, a major driver of forest loss in the Amazon was the cultivation of soy, mainly for export and production of biodiesel and animal feed and the effects are still feeled. And let's not forget of pesticides, the ones that can leach through the soil and enter the groundwater, as well as linger in food products and result in death in humans. This pesticides that can also kill non-target plants, birds, fish and other wildlife.

Just because you dont eat meat doesn't mean that you are saving the animals, neither does it makes any difference that i do.
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>>172968
>So when I buy something vegan, I'm also a charity?
What is it with your intelligence? jesus

You kill 200 animals per year with your selfish diet. In NO way is that a charity to anyway, you fucking retard.
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>>172968
>Sorry but I demand proof for this statement.

You demand proof that pain is a horrible feeling.

This is sad. You are beyond stupid. I can only assume your arteries are clogged and you are beginning to show brain fog.
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>>172969
>accidentally killing an animal is the same as purposely killing 200 per year

Wow there's more brilliant insight from the cheese fueled mind

Thanks for that
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>>172972
accidentally killing anything it's still killing, dismissing those deads its being ignorant of your actions and the reality of the situation, goverments like to call that "collateral damage"
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>>172971
I demand proof that causing pain is morally wrong. Who cares about feelings?

>>172970
So when you buy something vegan, it's charity but when I buy something vegan it's not?
The vegan mindset is a joke.
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>>172975
>accidentally killing anything it's still killing
Really????? Omg thank you for telling me.

I guess I shouldn't make any effort to kill less, like you, you immoral piece of trash.
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>>172979
>I demand proof that causing pain is morally wrong
This is your brain on cheese.

Learn from his mistakes!

>>172979
>So when you buy something vegan, it's charity but when I buy something vegan it's not?
I know you're struggling to think through all that cholesterol, so I'll explain.

Your diet kills 200 animals per year. My diet kills the least amount possible.

You eat without a second thought for harm to others. I make an effort to make harmless hoices.

Understand the differences?
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>>172980
keep avoiding the fact that by supporting a vegan diet you also support agriculture which is also part of problems such as climate change, deforestation, pollutants and pesticides that displace and kill a large percentage of the wildlife in those regions, i'm not ignorant that by eating meat i support in some way the meat industry but i wont criticize others for doing so, be it that they eat meat, vegetables, fruit or whatever because one is just as bad as the other in relation to our world, there's not such thing as white and black morality.
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>>172988
>i don't judge vegans for trying to do good! So don't judge me for being selfish!

You're an idiot.
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>>172996
i don't judge vegans because i recognize that the meat industry is horrendous, i never said that you don't the right to criticize me, neither that you're not doing good but you're not seeing that the people who cultivate your tomatos, grains and whatnot have done just as bad as the people who work in the slaughterhouses, even if it wasn't their intention, what i said is that i dont criticize others for what they eat because the agriculture, farming and fishing industries have all of them dark sides. I'ts ridiculous to just free all those animals as it is to stop fishing and agriculture, each one complement the other to avoid famine of the world population, you have to understand that in life not everything comes up roses, there are also thorns.
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>>173001
>people who cultivate your tomatos have done just as bad as the people who work in the slaughterhouses

You heard it here, straight from the cheese addict's mouth!

Killing plants is the same as killing mammals!

More wisdom pls I'm learning a lot.
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>>173004
spraying pesticides kills insects, butterflies and bees which are a large part of the ecosystem
how do you justify supporting that?
>Killing plants is the same as killing mammals!
since your morality hinges on causing the least amount of pain, how are you so certain that plants can't feel more pain than mammals?
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>>173004
Amazonian Rainforest
Since 1978 over 750,000 square kilometers (289,000 square miles) of Amazon rainforest have been destroyed across Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Bolivia, Venezuela, Suriname, Guyana, and French Guiana. Why is Earth's largest rainforest being destroyed?
Surging demand for commodities like beef, soy, sugar, and palm oil ,
About 30% of Earth's land surface is covered by forests

Borneo, the third largest island in the world
was once covered with dense rainforests, but along with its tropical lowland and highland forests, there has been extensive deforestation since the 1960s, as the native economies of the region experienced rapid industrialisation.

The Mega Rice Project in Indonesian Borneo was initiated in 1996 in the southern sections of Kalimantan. The goal was to turn one million hectares of "unproductive" and sparsely populated peat swamp forest into rice paddies in an effort to alleviate Indonesia's growing food shortage. The government made a large investment in constructing irrigation canals and removing trees. The project did not succeed, and was eventually abandoned after causing considerable damage to the environment.

Loess Plateau, China
The Loess Plateau was highly fertile and easy to farm in ancient times, which contributed to the development of early Chinese civilization around the Loess Plateau. Centuries of deforestation and over-grazing, exacerbated by China's population increase, have resulted in degenerated ecosystems, desertification, and poor local economies.

Madagascar has lost 90% of its eastern rainforests. As of 2007, less than 50% of Haiti's forests remained

Mexico, India, the Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, Burma, Malaysia, Bangladesh, China, Sri Lanka, Laos, Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Liberia, Guinea, Ghana and the Ivory Coast, have lost large areas of their rainforest.
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>>173011
Deforestation eliminates a great number of species of plants and animals which also often results in an increase in disease. Loss of native species allows new species to come to dominance. Often the destruction of predatory species can result in an increase in rodent populations which can carry plague. Additionally, erosion can produce pools of stagnant water that are perfect breeding grounds for mosquitos, well known vectors of malaria, yellow fever, nipah virus, and more. Deforestation can also create a path for non-native species to flourish such as certain types of snails, which have been correlated with an increase in schistosomiasis cases.
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>>173009
>spraying pesticides kills insects, butterflies and bees which are a large part of the ecosystem
>how do you justify supporting that?

>Neonicotinoids are the "new DDT killing the natural world," 10,000 times more powerful than DDT

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/georgemonbiot/2013/aug/05/neonicotinoids-ddt-pesticides-nature

>US beekeepers fear for livelihoods as anti-Zika toxin kills 2.5m bees

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/sep/04/zika-mosquito-neurotoxin-kills-bees-livelihoods-beekeepers

>Dow's 2,4-D, closely associated with the infamous Agent Orange defoliant used in Vietnam. Besides being linked to cancer and birth defects in humans, 2,4-D is also toxic to honeybees.

http://saulcreekapiary.com/Honey%20Bees%20and%20Effects%20Of%20Herbicide%20Spraying.htm

http://www.panna.org/sites/default/files/24D-factsheet.pdf

>Approximately 60 percent of the total volume of food grown worldwide does not require animal pollination. Many staple foods, such as wheat, rice, and corn, are among those 28 crops that require no help from bees. They either self-pollinate or get help from the wind. Those foods make up a tremendous proportion of human calorie intake worldwide.

>Even among the 87 crops that use animal pollinators, there are varying degrees of how much the plants need them. Only 13 absolutely require animal pollination, while 30 more are “highly dependent” on it. Production of the remaining crops would likely continue without bees with only slightly lower yields.

>So if honeybees did disappear for good, humans would probably not go extinct (at least not solely for that reason). But our diets would still suffer tremendously. The variety of foods available would diminish, and the cost of certain products would surge.

https://www.nrdc.org/onearth/would-world-without-bees-be-world-without-us
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>>173009
>how are you so certain that plants can't feel more pain than mammals?

You can't be serious
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>>173011
>>173012
>>173014
Are you implying that deforestation is bad? In that case, you will want to reduce deforestation by being vegan.
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>>171215
>are you serious?
>>171376
>are you serious?
>>171440
>>holy fucking shit he is serious
>>172151
>were you serious?
>>172807
>>it's actually serious
>>173015
>You can't be serious
I'm really loving these """arguments""" you're posting. Refute the points or quit posting meaningless questions.
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>>173018
>Are you implying that deforestation is bad?
Switching to veganism won't make deforestation go away and reducing it doesn't do shit.
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>>173020
Reducing deforestation is better than increasing it.

>>173019
let's take a look at some of the statements which I was referring to

>>171192
>animals can't feel pain
>>171369
>vegans want less animals to live
>>171437
>hunting is good for deer
>>172148
>why do you care about animals?
>172794
>plants can feel pain
>>173009
>plants can feel pain

Are you being serious right now? It's hard to believe you can really be this dense.
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>>173018
I don't remember saying that being a vegan or a vegetarian is bad, neither is eating meat, what i'm arguing about is that demonizing meat eaters for supporting indirectly the meat industry and their horrible practices is hipocritical because the agroindustry fall in the same spectrum. Farming, and that includes both cattle and cultivation are part of the same problems, by eating meat one supports the atrocities that cows and pigs have to go through. My opinion on that is that livestock are nothing more than animals which although they feel pain, are not concious of their existance, that they only function through instinct, in my case that lessens the feeling that i might be doing something wrong by eating them, that paired with ignorance of their suffering, same with agriculture and logging which destroys in large parts of the rainforest and damague the oceans, lakes, rivers, the soil and with that the life of the locals that reside close to this places... of course that it's not ideal but you tell me what's the solution, because releasing all those animals in the wilderness is the same as leaving them in the pen without food and hungry coyotes, and reducing or stopping intensive agriculture is the same as locking our refrigerators.
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>>173023
>demonizing meat eaters for supporting indirectl
You directly support the meat industry. With your daily choices. And you stop any day you wish.


>animals are not concious of their existance, that they only function through instinct
As if you're any better. You just do whatever your group does like an animal. Completely immorally and thoughtless.

Tomorrow you'll eat animal products without a care in the world. Pure instinct.
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>>173021
If they're so stupid, they should be easy to prove wrong.

>animals can't feel pain
was any evidence provided otherwise? did you even define what pain is?
>vegans want less animals to live
yeah, less animals would exist if people stopped eating them or anything they produce because they wouldn't breed cattle for that express purpose.
>hunting is good for deer
strawman paraphrasing there, that person said that hunting results in a quicker and less painful death than a deer usually would have.
>why do you care about animals?
well, why do you care about them? You act as if everyone _has_ to care about animals otherwise they're some sort of monster.
>172794
>plants can feel pain
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1709102/?page=1
plants have a nervous system, nervous systems allow living things to receive signals such as pain
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg15320720-800-stressed-plants-cry-for-help/
are you going to assert that just because we cannot communicate with plants implies that they cannot react in an analogous way as people?
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>>173023

>although they feel pain
>animals are ignorant of their suffering

They feel suffering, but aren't aware of it. What the fuck?

>>173023
>you tell me what's the solution
The solution is to make ethical choices. Make decisions which cause less suffering to others.

What is so difficult about that?
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>>173026
@_@

>he's serious
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>>173028
emoticons are not an argument

>>173027
>The solution is to make ethical choices.
Oh great wise one, knower of all things ethical, explain your ethical system.
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>>173029
>explain your ethical system.


Here it goes:

Killing animals is unethical because you can simply eat plants.
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>>173031
That doesn't work, it would make it morally wrong to kill an animal in self-defense and eat it later.
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>>173032
Did you know you were retarded?
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>>173027
>The solution is to make ethical choices
The rules of logical reasoning do not guarantee an ethical argument

>They feel suffering, but aren't aware of it. What the fuck?

What i mean is that animals lack the ability to think (reason) and any distinguishing features of humanity—extreme intelligence; highly complex language; etc, therefore how should i feel any emotion for such a simplistic form of life.
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>>173032
While self defense is an obvious necessity for life, killing animals purposefull for food is unethical because you can simply eat plants.

Is that better you fucking retard?
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>>173034
>animals lack the ability to think

I'm not convinced you have the ability to think. And I'm 100% serious. This feels like communicating with that AI software.

Koko the Sign Language Gorilla - "Look Who's Talking" (2016) [1080p] [HD]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbuedBwE7Eo


>how should i feel any emotion for such a simplistic form of life.
You either have the capacity for empathy or you keep evolving. The longer this thread goes, the more convinced I am that empathy is not universal among us.
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>>173039
By the way, Koko, the gorilla who knows sign language, she wants a family. She's open to adoption (seriously)

What a thoughtless beast amirite

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihb6rBvKsO4
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>>173033
Babies are young and could be considered "retarded" when compared to an adult. So in a sense I was retarded when I was a baby.

>>173035
Okay, now what if I'm poor and can't get supplements, how can I "simply eat plants" when that would put me at a great risk of b12 deficiency (which can lead to heart disease)?
http://www.webmd.com/food-recipes/news/20030618/vegetarian-diet-b12-deficiency#1
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>>173031
>Killing animals is unethical because you can simply eat plants
>Make decisions which cause less suffering to others
What you say is flawed because if we only eated products that came from plants it would imply a bigger output from farms to supply the demand left from the meat industry and that only would mean more deforestation in the goal of keeping such demand, more defoestation would lead to the loss of widllife and biodiversity, and that would lead to the extinction of many indigenous species, displacement of comunities from the close regions and more polution leading to diseases, is that ethical?
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>>173041
Koko proved that her species is capable of rational thinking, when a cow or a chicken does the same i will change my stance.
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>>173043
The only supplement you need is b12 and it costs pennies. And you only need it once every 2 weeks.

You don't have any excuses. Also that's not what retarded means. But haha?

>>173044
>>173044
>that only would mean more deforestation
That's false. It causes exponentially more deforestation to raise animals. Humans have to eat right? So let's eat in the least destructive way possible, since you seem to agree deforestation sucks.

I just found a video of Koko and Robin Williams. Ultimate loneliness combo.


Koko the Gorilla with Robin Williams.mp4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GorgFtCqPEs
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>>173048
>The only supplement you need is b12 and it costs pennies.
It's not just about the cost, it's that the b12 supplement isn't available for everyone everywhere.
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>>173047
>cow
Here's a compilation of cows thinking and being rational.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FK-4-5eYRwc
>cow breaks out of cage
>cow opens door
>cow gets into cart by herself
>cows turning on drinking fountains
>cow turns on hose
>cow defending itself from human
>cow going down stairs and roof
>cow unrolling a rug
>cow doing pet tricks
>cow painting abstract art
>cow playing ball
>cow playing fetch
>cow jumping tricks

>chicken

Here's a video of chickens doing learning and smart things too.


>chickens are sooo clever!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1wIh6AFplI
>Chickens are sooo clever! part 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXLwDL6bJWc
>chickens are sooo clever! part 3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFwjl5Jkca8
>Smart Chicken: Teaching Chickens with operant conditioning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qLs2K4UXXk

So I guess you're a vegan now. That's great. I like oatmeal in the mornings and don't hold back on the fruit.
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>>173049
It's available for you. And with all the money you save on animal product, you can spare a few pennies. Do you have any more excuses?
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>>173047
>when a cow or a chicken does the same i will change my stance.
In case you weren't convinced by the compilation of cow behavior, here's a few more videos showing their intelligence.

Mother Cow Protecting her New Born Baby From Being Separated from Her
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3MQnGvyQvs

This is what that cow was afraid of.
The price of milk, cheese (dairy) and veal - separation of a cow and her calf (English)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYJPbrxdn8w

Notice how the mama cow chases the car that's taking her baby away. Is that rational? I think so.

Here's a cow getting a moment free from it's cage. It jumps for joy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNtStsw3rMo

How did that mindless animal even know it was able to jump for joy? Just kidding obviously she has a brain.
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>>173048
>it causes exponentially more deforestation to raise animals
Source?

The biggest driver of deforestation is agriculture. Farmers cut forests to provide more room for planting crops. Often, small farmers will clear a few acres by cutting down trees and burning them in a process known asslash and burn agriculture. If we get rid of livestock, which is approximately over 60 billion in its totality, what are we going to do with the demand that will arise from the disappearance of that food, farmers are going to destroy more of the rainforest, killing the indigenous creatures that live there, disrupting the environment by pollution, generating health problems in the communities close to these regions and affecting the global climate.

>>173050
>domesticated
>trained
>conditioned
Are these traits of a thoughtful and reasonable species or a trained animal?
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>>173058
>The biggest driver of deforestation is agriculture.
We're growing the majority of that agriculture to feed the farm animals!

http://www.globalagriculture.org/report-topics/meat-and-animal-feed.html

There's a lot of links. Plus this isn't really controversial.

>>173058
>Are these traits of a thoughtful and reasonable species or a trained animal?
Most of the videos I posted we not trained animals. They were thoughtful and reasoning beings.

You fucking lied to me dude, you said if I showed rational thinking, you'd change your stance.

Those cows opened cages designed to keep them in, and turned on a regular garden hose.

That chicken was able to watch where the food was during that moving cup game! That is difficult even for humans! You're a fucking liar homie don't even reply anymore bitch.
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>>173058
bitch ass liar

i bet you couldn't even follow where the nut was

dumbass
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>>173056
Any animal protecting its offspring can be rooted to the innate behavior to keep the species alive, what you're showing doesn't give me the impression that these animals are rational or intelligent, have you looked at concepts such as imitation, stimulus and local enhancement or social transmission, these animals acquire and learn behaviors based on trial and error, bruteforcing, not rational though and intelligent conclusions.
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>>173063
>We're growing the majority of that agriculture to feed the farm animals!

Now tell me what could happen to the ecosystems and the environment after we free them and let them roam on their own in the wilderness.
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>>173069

Are you that same bitch from before? I can't believe you lied to me. I mean, yeah you defend killing billions of animals because muh bacon nuggets, but lying? that's pure evil. You're sick.

Sick.

But seriously did you watch the video of the chicken playing that moving cup game? I bet you the chicken is better than you, lying zombie.
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>>173072
Ending the animal holocaust will be a gradual process.
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>>173069
>>Any animal protecting its offspring can be rooted to the innate behavior to keep the species alive,
false. any empiricist knows that animals have no rationalist notion of species
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>>173035
>life
life is concept and it is okay for concept to die
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>>173023
>are not concious of their existance,
prove that you are concious of your existance
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>>173073
I did watch them dude, also I'm from Venezuela, over here in lucky if manage to eat pumpkin soup or a loaf of bread for dinner, literally I haven't eaten any kind of meat or sub products of any animal (milk, ice cream, butter, etc) for 8 months , I'm only arguing with you because I don't have anything better to do right now, i respect your point of view but it's naive to believe that by freeing all those animals things will go better for them, how long do you think it would take for the rednecks to start hunting them or the economy to fix itself after all those manufacturers and industries have nothing to sell because it's illegal to kill cows and pigs, literally say goodbye to your soap and your belts when that happens.
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>>172983
>>Your diet kills 200 animals per year.
this is false. a diet kills nothing. I get the few meats from some guy who sells them. I do not kill 200 animals per year.
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>>172979
>>I demand proof that causing pain is morally wrong.
define proof
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>>172777
>There are plants with rudimentary nervous systems. There are animals, mostly within arthropods, insects and mollusks, that do not have a CNS.
only materialists reduce pain to the existence CNS
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>>173081
>it's naive to believe that by freeing all those animals things will go better for them
The only reason we have billions of farm animals is so they can be eaten. When humans stop force-impregnating animals things will go back to normal.

>>173082
>I do not kill 200 animals per year.
200 is the average. Most carnists eat chickens like its a competition.
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>>173078
What does that mean?
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>>173086
Yeah, but that won't happen from one day to the other, also what implies going "back to normal", the lifespan of a cow is 18-22 years and the pigs goes to 8, that means that the government and /or farmers will have to deal with billion of these animals for at least a decade, and we can't eat them or keep them, who's going to pay for all the mayhem that they're going to cause, what if this all backfires horrendously, seriously just imagine how many farm animals fit in the room you're right now and put in perspective billions of them just minding their business all across the world.
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>>173092
K
>>
I hate vegans so much after reading this thread.
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>>173083
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/proof?s=t
"evidence sufficient to establish a thing as true, or to produce belief in its truth."

>>173085
>only materialists reduce pain to the existence CNS
You say that as if there was something wrong with being a materialist. Aren't you going to even attempt to make the case for veganism to materialists?
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>>173106
Poor baby had to be remindedhis actions hurt others ;<

U ok?
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>>173139
Please don't treat your ignorance as if it's an argument. Most of the arguments in this thread were materialist in nature.
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>>173159
mcfucking kil urself you fart snuffing smug queer
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>>173173
Okay then, make a materialist definition of pain.
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>>173322
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pain
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>>173345
okay, now explain how causing pain is immoral.
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>>173354

Pain is a terrible thing. Havent you ever been injured or afraid? Animals have done nothing to deserve this.
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>>173440
>inb4

Some people like pain. Therefore, killing animals is moral now.
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>>173440
>Pain is a terrible thing
Pain are simply electrical signals in a nervous system, how is it terrible?
>Havent you ever been injured or afraid?
Sure have. Fear isn't pain, not sure how that's relevant. Pain serves a purpose. If my broken leg didn't hurt I might try to "walk it off" instead of letting it heal.
>Animals have done nothing to deserve this
Do animals or people need to do some certain actions in order to deserve some treatment?
Animals which wouldn't have existed otherwise are born and killed. Innocent people die when war happens.

>>173462
What's with your spacing? "inb4" is used all on one line and a lot of your posts have useless double spacing.
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>>173594
>"inb4" is used all on one line and a lot of your posts have useless double spacing.
Is that what you learned on knowyourmaymay.com?

I type how I want. Take your herd (no offense animals) mentality back to wherever you came from.
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>>173677
back to 4chan it is then
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>>173941
right, that's why you were commenting on my spacing even thought it's a typical format

disgusting new fuck trying to fit it, you make me sick.
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>>174013
>you make me sick.
good, I hope you die of anemia
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>>174122
I already got cancer from your attempt to pose as le oldfag XD
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>>172221
>>173440
I'm going to the butcher downtown tomorrow and buying at least $50 worth of cuts, just for you.

Little sanctimonious turds like you are the second biggest reason that I delight in eating meat. The first being that it's ~delicious~
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>>174208
You don't really want to cause unnecessary suffering.

I don't believe anybody wants that.
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