| NATO said: Here's the thing, half a billion less animals killed to eat doesn't eqaute to half a billion animals frolicking free in the fields, it just means less animals are bred for the purpose of meat production.
That's pretty fucked up that you're comparing eating meat to one human raping another. "Forced pollenation is rape, growing plants for the sole purpose of harvesting is murder, you should stop eating everything entirely." See how stupid that sounds to you?, well to everyone that eats meat, that's how stupid your rape comparison is. |
I'm aware that fewer animals killed means fewer animals bred into captivity. Not sure what your point is. Or do you think it's better for animals to be born into a system that (for example) puts them in a tiny cage and keeps them there their entire life at a huge cost to the planet's environment, and to the health of the humans who eat them? Nearly 99% of the animals on the planet are now domesticated animals, with animal agriculture ironically doing more to cut into wild spaces for animals than any one other thing. About a third of the planet's ice-free land is now devoted to animal agriculture, either directly or indirectly, and it's completely unsustainable.
Pointing out that animal agriculture involves rape and murder would have seemed an excessive comparison to me too, when I ate meat. No one likes to hear bad things about our habits. Things definitely change when you "take the red pill" and learn what really goes on behind closed doors in factory farms. Murdering and raping animals is only not excessive to the degree that we accept it as necessary. But it's 100% unnecessary since we have alternatives, and those alternatives are generally cheaper and healthier.
We humans engage in a curious form of racism, and that's thinking the human race is better than other kind of animals (speciesism, as it's sometimes called). With how horrible humans are to each other, to the environment, etc., I don't think the evidence suggests that humans are deserving of special treatment.
