Doesn’t it suck when you know your entire argument was bullshit so you resort to simply being a mindless prick?I’ve reblogged a couple of vegetarian type posts today, and in the past, and I just want to make my stance on this clear.
1. Eating meat is not animal cruelty. Hunting is not animal cruelty. And (some) farming is not animal cruelty.
Because you claimed that killing…
Please excuse me while I eat this delicious burger.
No. I was actually on my way out to work and simply decided to go with the “mindless prick” persona.
Long story short…
1. My aunt is an animal cruelty investigator. By law (here anyway) killing is not considered cruelty. You shoot something in the head, end of game. There is no suffering. You slice somethings throat and let them slowly bleed out, yeah..different story.
Must I really define suffering for you to realize that breeding animals in order to hold them captive for the short life you allow them, deny them the fulfillment of their own interests and then end their life either by sticking a captive bolt to their head, slitting their throats or putting them in a gas chamber constitutes causing suffering. The law does not always operate in the most ethical fashion. Just because under law killing animals is justified does not mean it is ethically justifiable or excusable.
While I know some farms do the latter, that is not to say it is all farms. Nor do any of the animals my dad hunts to feed the family suffer. Not to mention, much of our cattle, pig, and chicken population are bred for food/survival.
You keep saying the word survival but I don’t think you know what it means. You have already stated that you agree that a diet free from any animal products is a healthy alternative to an omnivorous one and I have already provided evidence that this statement is true. Animals raised for food are not bred and killed for human survival, they are bred and killed for human pleasure.
2. My diet is none of your concern. I eat meat to survive because quite frankly, protein is necessary, and I hate beans and nuts.
Your diet is every bit of my concern as soon as your diet infringes on the rights of other sentient beings. As long as your dietary choices affect the lives of others you have a responsibility to recognize that.
3. I’ve tried a vegetarian lifestyle. It didn’t suit me. So I continue to eat meat.
“It didn’t suit me” is no excuse to continue to support the murdering of billions of animals per year. The animals right to be not be treated as property, to be free to pursue their own interests and to be free from domination and exploitation is more important than your right to have something which provides you with nothing but pleasure.
I don’t dictate what is right or wrong in your dietary choices, and I would appreciate the same respect.
As soon as my dietary choices begin to infringe on the rights on other beings I would hope someone would alert me. I will never respect your dietary choices because they do just that.
At the end of the day, animals are not human. Animals do not get the same rights as humans. Human life is more important (to me) than animal life.
At the end of the day you are a speciesist who prioritizes the interests of your own species over the interests of others. Animals are sentient beings who deserve to be treated as such, not mindless meat/dairy/egg machines. Human life may be more important to you but that has nothing to do with your diet. At this point your dietary choices reveal that you believe that human pleasure is more important than animal’s lives.
The fact that I choose an omnivorous lifestyle does not make me an animal hater. Quite the contrary actually. I love animals.
I am not even going to entertain this idea again. The fact that you felt the need to bring it into the conversation once more is simply idiotic.
However, I do believe in population control, and I do believe in survival, and I believe in the right to choose how I survive.
You believe in your right to do whatever the fuck you want regardless of how it affects other beings besides yourself. The fact that someone else lives a life of misery, is exploited and objectified and is killed unnecessarily to pleasure your taste buds is irrelevant to you. Everything you have said up until now has been nothing but ideas you use to assuage your conscious after contributing to of the needless suffering and death which occurs due to your dietary choices. Cut the shit and go vegan.
