"Animal lover" is different to just loving pets, though.I'm vegetarian but don't really think this way. Humans eat animals, they always have, that doesn't mean someone can't love dogs and cats which is what this usually means.
"Animal lover" is different to just loving pets, though.I'm vegetarian but don't really think this way. Humans eat animals, they always have, that doesn't mean someone can't love dogs and cats which is what this usually means.
in a sex way?
Yep a better analogy would be you can't be a feminist and beat your wife, or an anti-racist and own slaves.There are degrees to hypocrisy. Direct support of the meat and dairy industry is much more direct a link.
Uhm, hmm...I don't know man. Many vegans will tell you they don't eat meat because of sentience, then in the same breath will tell you abortion is just fine.
Maybe life ain't as easy as silly little gotchas.
Definitely in a sex way.
I told you, dog, if you hump that again they're coming off...
but i need those legs
I mean they are just contradicting themselves at this point, you like animals so much you'll go ahead and eat them?
LMAO!!!
Yep. You can't just eat leaf and tofu and nothing else.Many people are live in places where sufficient vegetarian options aren't feasible without consistent meal planning, and many of those people are overworked and underpaid to a point where spending the mental and/or financial resources on that sort of thing just isn't in the damn cards.
Because they like the taste?Or vegan dishes that try to replicate the taste of meat. Why? Oh why?
The issue here is that there is a direct link to something, that piece of meat on your plate was cut directly from an animal likely in an industrialized fashion where countless animals suffered in shit conditions so efficiency and cost effectiveness could be maintained.is this where someone posts the "and yet you participate in society, INTERESTING" gif?
We can also have conversations like this to raise awareness of the fact there is hypocrisy here.This is silly. Eating meat is part of a human diet.
One can support and push for better conditions for animals and still eat a steak.
Much like you need to kill deers in some places to preserve their living environment.
We'll have people lurking this thread who want to post stuff like "but plants feel pain too!" in any thread like this, it's hard to tell if people are debating in good faith at the best of times in these topics...That's not quite the same thing. Gardening would be similar to animal husbandry.
Then people can simply say that they're dog/cat/whatever lover.
No way
I'm a furbabby loverThen people can simply say that they're dog/cat/whatever lover.
We can also have conversations like this to raise awareness of the fact there is hypocrisy here.
We're pushing for a better world, right? We do not need to consume meat at the levels we do, we do not need is many animals to suffer as they do for our convenience.
We could reduce our meat intake drastically (and I'm talking about those who can, yes some areas of the world cannot reduce as much as others), be more healthier, and cause far less suffering. This would also reduce impact on global warming and the environment. It's a win win for everyone.
It is not silly, it is something we should consider.
We'll have people lurking this thread who want to post stuff like "but plants feel pain too!" in any thread like this, it's hard to tell if people are debating in good faith at the best of times in these topics...
So if someone loves cats, dogs, polar bears, lions, elephants, monkeys, donkeys, zebras, penguins, snakes, dolphins, giraffes, pandas etc.. they're supposed to sit their and list every animal they like individually just to pander to someone else's needlessly pedantic semantics?Then people can simply say that they're dog/cat/whatever lover.
Forget the OP then, the conversation is happening with or without them now.
I don't think that phrase is simplistic and silly. I think it is a very good platform to use as a jumping off point. OP didn't do a very good job of taking that platform and producing a coherent argument, but the phrase itself is one that pans out easily.None of this is in the OP. the phrase "how can people call themselves animal lovers and then eat meat" is simplistic and silly.
Discussin the meat industry and the impact of agriculture on climate change is a much different framing.
And i know many meat-eaters that are able to bypass the industrial part of meat production. If you live anywhere slightly rural it's not hard to do.