LuigiMaoFrance comments on capitalism is killing the planet

[–] LuigiMaoFrance@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 months ago (7 children)

The vast majority of self-proclaimed leftists I met still eat animals.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 9 points 10 months ago (5 children)

As a vegetarian I feel like this is purity testing. It's easy for me to not eat meat but some of them seem really weirdly attached to it.

Unilateral sacrifices are fine when it's easy, but a lot has to change and it can exhaust you. If they've only got the mental energy for one, then I'll accept their help with systemic change. Even a slightly better economy would internalize the cost of eating meat.

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[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 10 months ago

it's not purity testing, it's astroturfing. I'm convinced 90% of these kinds of comments are made by paid actors to make people think vegans and vegetarians are miserable shitheads who hate them.

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[–] LuigiMaoFrance@lemmy.ml 1 point 10 months ago* (3 children)

As a vegetarian you still pay for animals to be murdered for your personal enjoyment. Every laying hen whose eggs you eat had a brother who best case was shredded alive soon after hatching, or kept around for a few weeks to be murdered for his flesh. Laying hens are murdered once they age out of peak egg productivity to be sold as cheap meat. Cows and their male counterparts suffer similar fates.

My point is that yes, even most well-intentioned communist humans indeed are a plague, and the planet would be better of without us.

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