Comment on "Being vegan is unnatural"
ghost@literature.cafe 6 hours ago
The posters here are the same types of men who used to argue that enslaved human beings weren’t ‘people,’ merely property to do with as they pleased.
Yes, there are savagely callous, rather unintelligent and spiritually devoid humans who claim that cows - and by implication all other non-human beings - are not ‘people,’ but it doesn’t make it true. It just betrays their own barbaric stupidity.
The argument that non-human animals do not share some vague set of traits that make humans the only species worthy of being classified as ‘people,’ is small-minded and ignorant, and based on outdated, biased and anthropocentric beliefs.
Cows are beings - like all mammals - who share the same kind of social bonds, care and love for family and community that humans share. They live complex emotional lives. They ARE ‘people,’ just as whales (who ARE legally recognized as having personhood), dolphins, elephants and primates are ‘people.’
Unfortunately we live in a society that more readily ascribes personhood to a sociopathic corporation than it does living, loving beings who nurture their young, suffer and grieve, and deserve to live lives of dignity as much as any human does.
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goedel@discuss.tchncs.de 3 hours ago
comparing slaves to animals is exactly what slavers do
Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 hours ago
We are all animals, and we are comparable
arrow74@lemmy.zip 1 hour ago
So according to you slaves are animals, neat
Gold_E_Lox@lemmy.dbzer0.com 37 minutes ago
worst bad faith argument ive seen in a while, thanks for not trying
caurvo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 hour ago
It is cruel to treat other life cruelly.
In the eyes of slavers, slaves would be seen as animals and treated as such. In the eyes of meat farmers, animals are treated poorly too.
I don’t understand the point you are trying to make.