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Factory farming is the problem, not animal husbandry. If the whole world went vegan, do you think the vegetables we eat would not be altered to better serve yield rather than quality? Do you think pesticides would not be used in staggering levels? Do you think vegetables aren’t alive so it’s okay to eat them? If it doesn’t have a face, it’s cool to eat? Life is sustained by consuming other life, the world over. I agree that industrial farming is disgusting and cruel, but not just to animals.

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Grail@multiverse.soulism.net ⁨9⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
Animals don’t have nervous systems, which appear to be what enables suffering

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MDCCCLV@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Farming is already optimized for yield.

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Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Killing animals for taste pleasure is morally wrong, weather it happens in a factory farm or on that mythical uncles farm that tottaly loves and pets his animals to death.

And yes, it’s ok to kill plants because they do not feel pain. They can’t feel pain because they lack a nervous system to do so as well as an evolutionary reason for pain to exist.

And even if plants feel pain, it takes MUCH more plants to feed animals to then feed humans.

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deacon@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Trust me, the more explorations I do on the nature of consciousness, the more I wrestle with all of that.

I don’t believe that it is inherently wrong to kill in order to eat. But as a species we don’t. Which isn’t to say there aren’t members of our species who very much do still need to kill to eat.

But I don’t need to kill to eat, and I’ve outsourced that killing so it feels like more of an abstraction than it is. I can at the very least acknowledge this.

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