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[+] -25 points 7 months ago (47 children)

This says a lot about the average carnist mindset. A lot of people have no idea their meat comes from dead animals. I think there would be a lot more vegans if people knew and were fully aware of the consequences

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  • [–] 34 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    A lot of people have no idea their meat comes from dead animals.

    I'd like to meet these a lot of people

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  • [–] 14 points 7 months ago* (2 children)

    If only they were as smart as you, and they could figure out that chicken comes from chickens, or that fish comes from fish. They just never put 2+2 together.

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  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    I invented a device called 'Burger on the Go'. It allows you to obtain 6 regular size hamburgers, or 12 sliders, from a horse without killing the animal. George Foreman is still considering it. Sharper Image is still considering it. Sky Mall's still considering it. Hammacher Schlemmer is still considering it. Sears said no.

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    I think people use compartmentalisation to avoid thinking about the consequences when they eat. I bet if you went to a slaughterhouse and saw the death, and if you read the science on the effect they have on local communities

    the effectA study looked at a series of small towns in pairs. One where a slaughterhouse opened, one where it didn't. The towns with slaughterhouses saw increased alcoholism, mental health issues, spousal abuse.... Taking lives all day long, it damages your soul. You have to become a worse person in order to survive that. A crueler person. It hurts your ability to treat other humans with kindness and respect.

    , and you remembered all of that every single time you ate meat for a month, by the end of that month you'd want to go vegetarian.

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  • [+] 10 points 7 months ago* (10 children)
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    Every single person, at most past the age of 12 knows exactly where all the meat comes from

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/meat-eating-clueless-brits-food-study-farming-source-a8548511.html

    Almost two thirds could not identify the correct location of a rump steak – despite the clue being in the name - while only 36 per cent could identify that a pork shoulder steak came from the shoulder of a pig.

    More than 80 per cent of respondents could not find the part of a cow that a ribeye steak comes from, while only nine per cent said they knew where a Barnsley chop came from on a lamb.

    A quarter admitted they felt confused, did not know what to buy and don’t understand what is on display in their local butcher’s shop

    You said every person over 12 knows exactly where all the meat comes from. But 80% of British people don't know where a ribeye steak comes from!

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  • [–] 11 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Your argument was:

    A lot of people have no idea their meat comes from dead animals

    Then you said:

    But 80% of British people don't know where a ribeye steak comes from!

    Stop acting clueless so you can twist his words. They don't need to know where a ribeye whatever comes from to know it comes from a cow. Which disproves your argument.

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  • [–] 11 points 7 months ago (13 children)

    But did you know that to eat vegetables, you actually kill them? An innocent life form - dead, just so you can eat. How can you live with yourself?

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  • [–] -3 points 7 months ago (10 children)

    Vegetables don't care if they die, but animals do. Animals don't like dying. I've asked lots of animals and very few of them were suicidal.

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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    So it's funny You bring that up because i had a fish that was very definitely suicidal. we did not eat him though.

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  • [–] 14 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Give a man a fish, feed him for a day, give a man a suicidal fish give him PTSD for a lifetime.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago*

    We gave it a clean 200 gal tank, friends, food that it was really picky about (he only wanted to eat the tails of the feeder goldfish. We told him he had to eat the entire things. He refused. So we ended up having these three feeder fish with half missing tails called Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner swimming around in the tank with our fancy fish because dumb old Oliver bit they butts off but wouldn't finish the job. Eventually Oliver died by flight, the tails finished growing back, we dug a pond, and Breakfast Lunch and Dinner moved outside to become our koi. 25 cent feeders. They got huge. Gorgeous. Size of my forearm. A friend who waited tables at a Japanese restaurant offered to buy them for the restaurant because he thought they were koi and not 25 cent feeder goldfish. We liked him so we said no, go spend your own 50 cents. He thought it was hilarious. Next week we went to get sushi and their koi fountain was full of feeder goldfish.

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  • [+] 17 points 7 months ago (6 children)
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  • [–] -4 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Plenty of animals can survive being shot, depending on where you shoot them

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  • [+] 7 points 7 months ago (3 children)
  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

    Well there you fucking go, don't you? You don't need to kill lettuce to eat it, but you do need to kill cows to eat them. So stop the killing and have a salad.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (5 children)

    There's nothing from this commentor to suggest that THEY eat meat. The only thing we know about them is that they're an idiot.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Correlation does not mean causation.

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