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They don't belong in cages or tanks for our entertainment. It sickens me and I will never step foot in another zoo or park with animals again.
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this...but what food do you eat? I bet its animal based.
but what food do you eat? I bet its animal based.
I'm a vegan.
but what food do you eat? I bet its animal based.
I'm a vegan.
whether you want to admit it or not, but plants are living things as well. So your killing plants too.I'm a vegan.
If you're primarily concerned about labor, bear in mind that rearing livestock is MORE resource- and labor-intensive than growing crops. Read up on how slaughterhouse employees have been treated sometime.How dare you eat vegetables and fruits... you should be ashamed. Some man had to labor to plant them and pick them and then you eat them
Plants don't have central nervous systems.Originally Posted by UrBetterthenME
whether you want to admit it or not, but plants are living things as well. So your killing plants too.
My whole logic is that you can't just be one sided. Natural order is eat or be eaten. Just the way it is.
Zoos can be a good thing too ..
So Meth is a vegan?
Meth feeds off the souls of banned SNs
I personally think zoos do a good service. What I think OP is getting at is how certain animals are kept. Point blank it makes me sad as hell seeing the Gorillas and Elephants. They need to roam and live in a large area. Same goes for certain kinds of marine life like whales. They need to be set free.
A lack of a central nervous systems still doesn't change the fact that plants are living things. We were created to surive based on what is surrounding us and animals just so happen to exist. I have no problem eating a chicken, cow, pig, or a fish. I will however agree that animal abuse is wrong. If the animal(be it goat, chicken, cow, pig, etc) is not going to be eaten or used for helping society(zoos, research for dieases), then there is no reason to bother it.
If you're primarily concerned about labor, bear in mind that rearing livestock is MORE resource- and labor-intensive than growing crops. Read up on how slaughterhouse employees have been treated sometime.
Plants don't have central nervous systems.
Is this any more illogical as a point of distinction than "pigs but not cats, chickens but not parrots, cows, but not baby cows..." etc. etc.?
If you have no qualms with killing a sentient creature for no other reason than because you consider it tastier or more economical, so be it - but the false analogies used to attack veganism are unnecessary. You shouldn't have to attack someone else's beliefs to justify your own.
A lack of a central nervous systems still doesn't change the fact that plants are living things. We were created to surive based on what is surrounding us and animals just so happen to exist. I have no problem eating a chicken, cow, pig, or a fish. I will however agree that animal abuse is wrong. If the animal(be it goat, chicken, cow, pig, etc) is not going to be eaten or used for helping society(zoos, research for dieases), then there is no reason to bother it.
If you're primarily concerned about labor, bear in mind that rearing livestock is MORE resource- and labor-intensive than growing crops. Read up on how slaughterhouse employees have been treated sometime.
Plants don't have central nervous systems.
Is this any more illogical as a point of distinction than "pigs but not cats, chickens but not parrots, cows, but not baby cows..." etc. etc.?
If you have no qualms with killing a sentient creature for no other reason than because you consider it tastier or more economical, so be it - but the false analogies used to attack veganism are unnecessary. You shouldn't have to attack someone else's beliefs to justify your own.