https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-58845776
A year ago, i would've thought that a shirt with the union jack saying "Save our bacon!" was an islamophobe dog whistle, now it's "Please make immigration easier again because we're all out of underpaid seasonal workers."
humanely slaughter
How the fuck do you say this with a straight face?
if you kill an animal in such a way that it is not suffering excessively that's a good sight better than just mangling it or causing more pain and fear. I understand why you feel it's a meaningless distinction, but it is important, in my opinion, to differentiate better and worse practices in regards to animal killing and consumption.
To a vegan, yes. Think about the arguments that proponents of capital punishment make for different methods of execution.
When you view the lives of other animals as something that cannot be commoditized, than any justification for doing so seems inadequate.
As you say, when the completely reasonable position of reducing suffering is used to excuse animal commodification it’s reprehensible, not because humane slaughter is reprehensible, but because the regime of animal commodification is.
This puts it pretty well, thank you.
Once revolutionary veganism has taken hold, the unpalatable task of slaughtering the global herd must be undertaken and in victory over animal servitude humane slaughter will not have any detractors.
What the fuck is this last sentence though lmfao Most vegans do not want to slaughter the global livestock population in an ideal liberatory outcome.
Check out animal sanctuaries for animals liberated from factory farms. It's wholesome and good brain bleach when capitalism has got you feeling down. :vegan-liberation-rad:
Sorry if I misunderstood your last paragraph btw, appreciate the discussion.
No, you wouldn’t release them to the wild anymore than you would a dog or cat. You are absolutely right that they have been domesticated to the point in the imperial core where that is infeasible. Sanctuaries would require further land, but spreading out the impact would actually be less harmful for the environment on the whole.
You could convert currently empty urban spaces into sanctuaries as a part of ecological renewal programs. There are a lot of very sustainable ways we can handle animal liberation.
Animals do not produce milk passively and egg laying animals lay far less eggs when those eggs are not taken from them daily. So much of this comes down to compassionately managing the remaining generations of these animals and could be achieved in a relatively short timespan.
On the whole I do believe there are ways for us to coexist with many animals which have been domesticated such as dogs and cats. That would require a total revamp of how we approach this. This last take has mixed support in vegan circles because of how fucked up the capitalist machine around dogs and cats is.
So because we can't switch the entire world to a vegan diet overnight we may as well feed chickens feet first into wood chippers
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Hmm? No, I'm just articulating that the idea of "compassionately" mudering anything is a bit of an oxymoron, especially to vegans.
If someone wants to spend the time to be more "humane" than fine, but you can't expect a vegan to support that when we don't think it should be happening in the first place lol
I'm kind of confused how you jumped to that from what I wrote, but okay :shrug-outta-hecks:
Huh, til knocking a chicken out and exsanguinating it is the same as feeding it feet first into a wood chipper, who knew?
To a vegan, yes.
Is how I got that out of what your wrote.
I understand your position but it's pure ideology and lacks any kind of nuance.
Not supporting efforts to reduce suffering is a real "throwing the baby out with the bath water" take, and an extreme level of callous cruelty from someone who purports to love animals — that if the end result is "an animal dies", it doesn't matter if it's done in a manner that inflicts more suffering because the end result is the same.
If someone was killing you, would you mind if they also violated your corpse? I personally would.
Me personally? No, not really. I'm much more people concerned with my existence ending
yeah, but I can't convince you of it. It would be the same for humane animal slughter, you can understand the words I'm saying and my reasoning, but I can't make you see it my way without trying to change your entire world view. And that's hard and not really what I'm here to do.
Once I'm dead whatever, but I've got real explicit EOL care and in the event that I'm imminently going to die anyway, that includes things like palliative measures and dr assisted euthanasia with medication, and does not include pulling my toenails out one by one or throwing me into a wood chipper
Anyone unwilling to make the distinction is eating out of the garbage can of ideology
yes, the distinction is important, but this does not make unnecessarily killing an animal humane. it's not possible for such a thing to be humane. not that it really matters on an individual scale, though....
I do remember my grandma complaining to me that no one knows the proper humane way of killing a fox anymore
Temple Grandin:
“I’m playing both sides, so that I always come out on top.”
Animals:
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:wojak-nooo: Noooooo, Brexit was supposed to fuck over the brown people, not meeeeeee
Shoulda grown oyster mushrooms instead. Tastes like pork, doesn't require that you traumatise a legion of foreign indentured servants to murder a bunch of pigs, good for cardiovascular health.
P. ostreatus pan-fried has like 80% of the texture and taste of bacon. P. eryngii is firmer so you can marinade it and grill it like a non-fatty charshu. Expensive if you buy them at market but if you grow them yourself on sawdust/straw they drop down to like 70 cents per pound.
That guy seems to do a fuckton of vegan meat recipes with everything from seitan, to wonder bread lol
What could pork farmers possibly have to fear with Liz Truss at the helm of the foreign ministry?
please, help us! we do not want to spend money on workers to make them torture and murder intelligent animals! can you perhaps give us this money, so that we may keep it, and still make people torture and murder intelligent animals?
Rightoids when they once again get exactly what they wanted :powercry-1: :powercry-2:
