• wafflez@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Definitions are perscriptive, not descriptive.

    Animals are moral agents, it is murder. It is unnecesary and cruel to forcefully breed and take lives for the sake of taste.

    They have desires, ability to suffer, ability to love, build social bonds and connections. They don’t deserve to die.

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      9 months ago

      They have desires, ability to suffer, ability to love, build social bonds and connections. They don’t deserve to die.

      True but still not murder. You can use words to mean just what you choose them to mean if you please but murder requires a human victim

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      9 months ago

      It is unnecesary and cruel to forcefully breed and take lives for the sake of taste

      most livestock is bred and killed for profit.

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            9 months ago

            They’re paid because there is demand for their bloodshed and torture. Supply and demand. If consumers stopped demanding it the supply would diminish

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              9 months ago

              supply and demand isn’t a magic phrase that makes your theory true. there is no reason to believe animal husbandry will ever stop before people are extinct.

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                9 months ago

                Each person’s purchases directly lead to consequences. Paying for animal products kills over 200 animals a year per person who does it reguarly. Even if animal abuse will never end it doesn’t mean we should empower or continue supporting it. Especially 3 times a day.

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                    9 months ago

                    Because the consumers paid for that to occur. Paying for steaks makes it so a cow will be bred and killed.