Cow eating chicken
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The video is to prove a point really fast, but, cows actually do only eat proteins. They have three stomachs that they use to feed grass to bacterial colonies, which they then pull into their fourth stomach to eat, with any of the grass that's left un-eaten by the bacteria being shit straight out without being processed any further. They don't eat the grass, the grass is there to feed what they do eat, which is supplemented by eating any large animal small enough to fit in their mouth. I read a study once that almost all cows when dissected had at least 1 animal in their digestive system at a time.

The notion that cows are good peaceful harmless herbivores who eat nothing but grass is nonsense. Here's a video of a cow eating the corpse of a donkey. Of note: there's grass right next to the body. And it isn't just a result of cows being fucked up by human domestication, wild deer (who you cannot blame on humans malnourishing it or contaminating its feed or whatever) do it too.

constructing an elaborate worldview out of a kindergarten level understanding of biology and then getting extremely smug about it annoys me relentlessly. Cows would eat you if they had the chance

    • raven [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      You can't neglect to apply ethical frameworks to the animals and also say their lives have value.

      Fuckin' watch me

    • crispyhexagon [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      if a human is, for whatever reason, incapable of forming a proper rational framework of ethics through which to interact with the world in an upstanding and morally acceptable way, would you say they should be carved up into steaks for you to consume?

        • crispyhexagon [none/use name]
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          4 years ago

          regardless of a deer being your brother or not, factory farming is entirely unsustainable as a food production model, and the attempt has severe ramifications for the environment.

          beyond factory farming then, if every human goes out and kills a deer by their own hand, deer go extinct.

          this destroys the biome.

          so then, in what ways could meat consumption not be deleterious to the social fabric?

          through strict regulation? but then who relegates and what amounts are permitted and to whom and when, and again under capitalism this quickly becomes a mark of wealth, and outside of capitalism, in some utopia, why would you not simply give up eating meat? all that effort, resources, land, time, etc could be spent better elsewhere, rather than on an unnecessary continuation of meat consumption that explicitly relies on murdering other creatures