When I die, turn me into soup

https://lemmy.world/post/14672448

When I die, turn me into soup - Lemmy.World

vegans have noble intentions but they are fighting the wrong battle: the root evil is not meat consumption per se but capitalism and the resource exploitation that it implies

Lol wtf you’re on about. Killing animals to eat them is wrong, plain and simple, it just happens that, understandably, it is much more convenient. But things are changing.

I’m in no way vegan and you won’t see me complaining to people about their eating habits, but you’re just wrong here.

Killing animals to eat them is wrong, plain and simple

See, it’s these kinds of fanatical black-and-white statements that makes it hard to sympathize with vegan ideology, even as I agree with many of its tenets. Feeling sad for animals that die to be consumed is not a strong argument for it being wrong. Humans are animals just as any other, and if it is wrong inherently to kill something to sustain oneself, then we should kill off all carnivorous and insectivorous animals, so that they cannot kill and eat their prey.

suggesting that animals eating other animals is bad does not imply that killing all carnivores is the correct solution to that problem. there is no solution to that problem which would save the lives of every animal alive today, so any solution to this problem must include the death of some animals. “continue letting animals eat other animals until we can find a real solution that won’t destroy the biosphere or genocide billions of living creatures” is a valid solution even under the strict idea that killing animals to eat them is always wrong