• reric88🧩@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Then that’s not a good reason. “Because it’s good” doesn’t justify the kill. For survival? Sure, I’d give that a pass, even though I’d defend myself. I would understand the situation. And people have done this.

    If you have this “no-kill” stance for animals, you need to have it for everything, including insects. I’m not saying you don’t, because I don’t really know, but I do know that’s often overlooked or ignored.

    A life is a life.

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      1 year ago

      It’s literally the same argument you’re using.

      You don’t need to eat animals for survival.

      I don’t kill insects on purpose.

      Yes a life is a life and shouldn’t be wasted because you think corpses taste good.

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        1 year ago

        It’s not about taste, why do you keep ignoring that? And that is not the same argument. You killing me to taste me is not the same as me killing a bass to get proper nutrients. Besides this, you are complicit, there’s no way you could live in this world without participating in animal cruelty in some way. Look at your apparel, your furnishings, your hygiene products, your crafting supplies, anything. It all exists because somewhere down the line, something died to provide materials, whether directly like foods containing gelatin, most shampoo’s, soap, toothpaste, etc., or indirectly through animals used for labor or food for other communities

        Have you swatted a fly? Mosquito? Spider? Wasp? No way that’s not on purpose

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      1 year ago

      A life is a life.

      Plants too are living beings. Cutting them, letting them starve without their roots, dissecting it in various parts to be sold…

      Why don’t we think about it? Are we so extremely sure plants don’t feel any type of pain, not even a much different pain that animals can’t understand?

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        We have to survive on something, and at the very least we choose the least-sentient thing we can find to eat. Plants do have a nervous system, but they don’t have a brain. Or a centralized brain, anyway.

        We don’t know if plants can feel pain, but we definitely know that plants respond to damage