• TWeaK@lemmy.today
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    10 hours ago

    Unless you are Jain or just want to die, we got to eat something.

    That’s the thing though, why should plants be more eligible for eating than animals? Both are living. Animals are closer to us, so we can understand them better, but that doesn’t mean we aren’t being just as harmful to plants.

    I don’t think there’s anything inherently wrong with eating another animal for sustenance. Just the same as there isn’t anything wrong with eating a plant for sustenance. What matters is what we do before we eat them.

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      5 hours ago

      Are you stupid? Genuine question, because animals need to eat as well for you to pay someone to murder them. Even going from the assumption that plants suffer too, a plant based diet still causes much fewer plants to die compared to feeding the plants inefficiently to animals to then eat the animals.

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      9 hours ago

      Plants cannot think or feel as animals can. Arguing a tomato has the emotions and thought of a dog or pig is just silly.

      Killing a pig versus a tomato is not the same thing dawg

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        9 hours ago

        as animals can.

        As we can. We understand how animals think, because evolutionarily they’re closer to us. We don’t really understand how plants “think” or “feel”, we just decide that because they don’t have what we have that makes it okay.

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          7 hours ago

          Just making up whatever you want aren’t you?

          “I’m not a plant therefore idk what their nonthinking minds are thinking”

          Who is we in your statement? Pretty sure modern botany understands how plants work and interact.