"I want to cook with you"

"No, I meant as an ingredient. Sorry, English isn't my first language"

This might make your friends feel uncomfortable.

Humans are literally animals. Most are nothing more than that.

Yes, when you're an owl the mice seem nice.

Most animals are insects =)

(About 10 quintillion, apparently: https://www.si.edu/spotlight/buginfo/bugnos )

Hello Clarisse....

most animals are much nicer than humans.

Man-eating animals are NOT nicer than humans.

I would more expect PETA to unironically tell someone off for calling a person a type of animal as an insult.

Cows when young are absolutely puppy like. We had a pet calf when I was a kid named Softy. My stepmom insisted we buy him and bring him home when we visited a rural county fair because he was so cute. He ended up thinking that he was one of our dogs for a while, even played fetch (poorly heh). Once he got big (and admittedly mean as hell), someone ended up stealing him from his pasture while we were away for the day. Poor Softy.

Maybe we should have a specific holiday like Thanksgiving but for cows. I vote for St Patrick's Day. Beyond meat and black beans are cool and good but you can pry corned beef out of my cold dead fingers.

I unfortunately like beef too much. But I know the impact the meat industry has and try to reduce my intake. I was down to two meals with meat a month before I got a job that wouldn't let me be picky.

what about cow milking therapy, or bull milking?

Nonsense. There's incontrovertible evidence that 2.4 million years ago, the non-human creatures on our family tree were already smarter than any non-human animal roaming the earth today.

A rare joke

Op: Makes post about PETA

Godric: OH GOD I HAVE TO BE OFFENDED ABOUT VEGANS

everyone else: Who the fuck said anything about Vegans?!

Vegans will have history side with them. However, farming and pastoralism is a way of life for many people. It's a job passed down from generation to generation. It's one of the world's oldest job. Unlike fossil fuels where there is no sentimental attachment and we can tell people to reskill, farming isn't. Some cultures and communities centre their identity to farming and pastoralism. How do we convince farmers and herders to give up the practice because it is extremely damaging not just to the environment, but to the entire human species?

Even though farmers do worry about the climate change making seasons becoming less predictable and yields becoming less productive, they are also the same people who complain and felt hindered by climate change policies, so they vote for the right wing parties that provide easy answer band aid solutions, but have far more dire and longer term consequences.

I'll make that a post give me a sec

that kind of attitude just proves that animals are just the facade for them

PETA euthanizes thousands of animals per year according to Google.

PETA euthanized 2,471 animals in 2023 and 2,213 in 2024 at its Virginia shelter, according to reports filed with the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (VDACS).

The ASPCA typically has a lower euthanasia rate than PETA because it often employs more selective admission policies, focusing on adopting out animals rather than accepting all animals regardless of their condition. In contrast, PETA operates as an open-admission shelter, which means it takes in all animals, leading to higher euthanasia rates due to the number of unadoptable or severely ill animals it receives.