Attainable Vegan

These are examples of British pig farms. How can people support this?

These are truly heartbreaking videos.

On a positive note, the following pigs are the luckiest pigs around. What sort of lottery did they win? One in a billion? Every pig should be free.

And then we tell ourselves we’re good people and ‘animal lovers’ because we know we could be doing worse than we already are. We talk about humane slaughter, acceptable levels of suffering, acceptable loss due to overcrowding and disease. We give them a few extra inches of space and then pat ourselves on the back for how kind we are while we enjoy eating their dead bodies.

Me: It's an argument against animal abuse.

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Please watch this short scene from the film Lucent. You do not have to watch the whole film and this scene is not graphic (contains no slaughter). It is simply an example of the suffering these animals go through.

I’m pretty numb when it comes to this sort of thing, but this one pig’s reaction to getting water had me in tears.

This is an old video and while it’s not from a vegan company it’s a wonderful little animation, nonetheless. The message is still somewhat vegan. People would say they need to go for more humane meat, and people believe the marketing of ‘natural’ and ‘farm fresh’, but even this video shows those things to be lies. If you still believe in ‘humane’ or ‘natural’ or even ethical meat and animal products then watch this following talk about food marketing... it’s specifically about the marketing of meat.

“... there can be no reason—except the selfish desire to preserve the privileges of the exploiting group—for refusing to extend the basic principle of equality of consideration to members of other species. I ask you to recognize that your attitudes to members of other species are a form of prejudice no less objectionable than prejudice about a person’s race or sex.”

“Equality is a moral idea, not an assertion of fact. There is no logically compelling reason for assuming that a factual difference in ability between two people justifies any difference in the amount of consideration we give to their needs and interests. The principle of the equality of human beings is not a description of an alleged actual equality among humans: it is a prescription of how we should treat human beings.”

“If a being suffers there can be no moral justification for refusing to take that suffering into consideration. No matter what the nature of the being, the principle of equality requires that its suffering be counted equally with the like suffering—insofar as rough comparisons can be made—of any other being.”

“Racists violate the principle of equality by giving greater weight to the interests of members of their own race when there is a clash between their interests and the interests of those of another race. Sexists violate the principle of equality by favoring the interests of their own sex. Similarly, speciesists allow the interests of their own species to override the greater interests of members of other species. The pattern is identical in each case.”

“Most human beings are speciesists. … Ordinary human beings—not a few exceptionally cruel or heartless humans, but the overwhelming majority of humans—take an active part in, acquiesce in, and allow their taxes to pay for practices that require the sacrifice of the most important interests of members of other species in order to promote the most trivial interests of our own species.”

“What we must do is bring nonhuman animals within our sphere of moral concern and cease to treat their lives as expendable for whatever trivial purposes we may have.”

In this video someone’s excuse against veganism is that if the whole world went vegan then dinosaurs would come back.

... That sounds like a plus to me.

Some of the comments:

If i could have one wish, i would wish that if you were about to do something like this to an animal, it magically happen to you.

Normally, I don't support death penalty but I'll gladly make an exception for POS like these. And screw anyone who says 'Oh, you care more for animals". Yeah, I do.

There's a special place in hell for such evil people. Hopefully a place where a pineapple being shoved up Hitler's ass on a schedule is real and they can make a schedule to also throw this person, naked, at a moving train, that's also on fire, with spikes lined up the sides. Oh, and I'd request a pineapple for his ass too.

Monsters. I very very much hope these scumbags get shoved into a giant blender. Face first. Repeatedly.

ETC

... If only these people really cared this passionately about animal abuse, then maybe they might actually stop funding it.

I’ve rarely heard vegans talk in such a violent way about those who pay for animals to be tortured and killed on their behalf, and yet it’s vegans who are ‘extreme’ and ‘militant’.

Are 100% of those species mammals?

How many mammalian species continue to drink the milk of their mothers throughout their entire life?

How many species drink the milk of a different mammalian species throughout their entire life?

The whole story is upsetting, however, this quote is the most shocking part of this news story:

“There is no place for animal cruelty at any stage of farm production – including the slaughterhouse,” said Parish.

That is from “Neil Parish MP, chairman of the Commons select committee for environment, food and rural affairs”

In my eyes taking an animal’s life only because you like the taste and you believe you are mentally and morally superior to it is smug and self-righteous.

In my eyes continuing to eat enormous amounts of meat that is destroying the planet and causing mass deforestation of the amazon, just because you don’t want to change, is smug and self-righteous.

In my eyes wearing another animal’s skin or fur, because it makes you look/feel wealthy or luxurious, is smug and self-righteous.

In my eyes buying beauty products that have to be rubbed into the eyes of rabbits just so you can look good or buy the latest cosmetic trend is smug and self-righteous.