Board 8 > I hope you carnivores are happy with yourselves.

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I'M BACK, CARNIVORES

I want you to think about this this Thanksgiving. 46 million turkeys died for today. That's more turkeys than there are people in the whole of California. And for what? For a bunch of ungrateful Americans to go around and stuff themselves with the meat of innocent birds that did nothing more than just exist in factory farms. People call this a tradition. It sickens me. You people could be having tofurkeys or simply veggies or even Beyond Meat but no, you people are okay with the murder and cooking of innocent animals. I'm disgusted.

I just hope you people can redeem yourselves next year by going meatless next Thanksgiving.

I'm not a carnivore, I'm an omnivore

No one ever talks about the vegetables that are sacrificed ~

Crescent-Moon posted...

I'm not a carnivore, I'm an omnivore

No one ever talks about the vegetables that are sacrificed ~

Plants don't have the same feelings as animals, nor are they necessarily killed when they are picked and eaten. Nice try though.

Yeah, I'm with Crescent here. Think about the feelings of all the innocent soybeans that sacrificed themselves for you, because I'm sure you haven't.

This should be enlightening for you:
https://www.bbcearth.com/news/plants-have-feelings-too

Plants have feelings too!

They just lack they expressions to show it.

BlueCrystalTear posted...

Yeah, I'm with Crescent here. Think about the feelings of all the innocent soybeans that sacrificed themselves for you, because I'm sure you haven't.

This should be enlightening for you:
https://www.bbcearth.com/news/plants-have-feelings-too

An unfortunate part of being an animal is that we are required to eat other organisms to survive. But the goal should be to reduce suffering to life. I respect each soybean that has given its existence to sustain me. But by eating them instead of meat, I'm not only saving animal lives, but the extra plants those animals would have eaten.

It's OK everyone! You don't have to eat meat! I made enough gazpacho for all!

That's tomato soup served ice cold!

CassandraCain posted...

Plants have feelings too!

They just lack they expressions to show it.

And yet you're apparently okay with plants being killed and used as feed for farm animals so those animals can be killed to go on your plate.

LameJokeAlt posted...

An unfortunate part of being an animal is that we are required to eat other organisms to survive. But the goal should be to reduce suffering to life. I respect each soybean that has given its existence to sustain me. But by eating them instead of meat, I'm not only saving animal lives, but the extra plants those animals would have eaten.

I'm confused. By those standards, by eating a pig, I've saved all the plants that pig would've eaten. You're still murdering the plants by "saving" them!

LameJokeAlt posted...

And yet you're apparently okay with plants being killed and used as feed for farm animals so those animals can be killed to go on your plate.

I'm okay with it yes

Gimme a salad with my lasagna plz

BlueCrystalTear posted...

I'm confused. By those standards, by eating a pig, I've saved all the plants that pig would've eaten. You're still murdering the plants by "saving" them!

By eating a pig, you're paying for the farmer to raise and slaughter more. Pigs wouldn't be raised and fattened like they are if not for these for profit farms, and we would save the plants. The plants could be eaten by humans and other apex predators.

CassandraCain posted...

I'm okay with it yes

Gimme a salad with my lasagna plz

Mmm, veggie lasagna though!

There's like 20 better reasons to be angry about American Thanksgiving.

Thank you for wanting me to be happy above your concern of killing animals.

Im in the Problematically I am biologically an omnivore camp

I appreciate the animals I eat and I think awareness is important. We need to reduce animal suffering before consumption

wg64Z posted...

There's like 20 better reasons to be angry about American Thanksgiving.

I'm a vegan not a hater of the American culture.

Haste_2 posted...

Thank you for wanting me to be happy above your concern of killing animals.

You need your sarcasm meter checked.

masterplum posted...

Im in the Problematically I am biologically an omnivore camp

I appreciate the animals I eat and I think awareness is important. We need to reduce animal suffering before consumption

You are not obligated to be an omnivore. A vegan diet is possible. Even become a vegetarian. That will also save many lives.

Fuck that, I will keep eating meat, Vegan and Vegetarian food tastes like nothing.

LameJokeAlt posted...

For a bunch of ungrateful Americans to go around and stuff themselves with the meat of innocent birds that did nothing more than just exist in factory farms.

No, at least 5 of those birds I bought and just threw in the trash out of spite. I ain't eating that shit but they don't deserve to live.

LameJokeAlt posted...

You are not obligated to be an omnivore. A vegan diet is possible. Even become a vegetarian. That will also save many lives.

tbh... I'd think 1/8th of a pig is actually what saves more lives, seeing as a single salad involves killing a few dozen plants. So one life feeds eight people, instead of thirty feeding just one.

Biologically speaking, plants have much more highly developed nervous systems than animals do, which means they feel more than we do. They just don't have a mouth to scream or express their pain. I'm sure you've heard of vegetarians that won't eat anything that "has a face." I'm the opposite. I won't eat anything that is trapped in the ground, at the direct mercy of whatever comes its way. Plants are, by their natural design, destined to be victimized by animals and I won't take part in that. And don't bring up the food chain -- it doesn't matter. What matters is that I'm not ripping a vegetable out of the ground just so I can have lettuce on my salad that's like 90% water by content anyway.

It's true, industrial farming of animals is generally cruel. Bad for the environment too. But it's unlikely that enough people are interested in changing their diets to make vegetarianism or veganism anything more than symbolic.