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1.5 billion pigs.

500mio sheep

400mio goats

300mio cows

it’s impossible to calculate the number of fish.

we are almost 7 billion humans and we kill 52+ billion animals each and every year.

because of taste.

that’s it. that’s the only reason.

for the fleeting pleasure of eating something.

But people leaving behind all of their veganism as soon as any health problems arise…..makes me wonder how much you really believed in the ethics of it tbh, and how much you cared about the animals.

I’m sure it’s relieving to finally be able to go along with everybody else again, and to push the animal suffering out of your mind again. Sucks to be like that though.

Vegans: vegetarian, vegan, carnist, speciesism, misothery

But if every single person did that it would be impossible for us to eat the amount of meat that we eat now so everyone would have to eat less anyway.

They conveniently forget that part. There’s a reason slaughterhouses and factory farms exist the way to they do. It’s not because people like to torture animals, it’s because YOU like to eat them 3 times day. It’s business. Factory farms and high speed slaughter exist to serve customers and make money.

If we wanted all the animals to have more space AND still eat the amount of animal products we eat now, we’d need at least one more planet Earth. Animal agriculture already takes up a huge amount of land, uses more crops, water, and energy than plant foods to produce, and is in part responsible for deforestation, habitat loss, Amazon rainforest destruction, ocean acidification leading to dead zones, pollution, and species extinction.

Even if you really believe there’s a right way to needlessly kill a sentient being for your own pleasure, you’d still have to eat animal products less if you only ate “humane” products. I would love to see anyone ACTUALLY do this. If you only ever ate animal products sourced from local farms, this means dairy, eggs, honey, gelatin, everything. That means you can’t buy prepackaged items if you don’t know where the ingredients are sourced.

Ironically, even if you’re super rich it’d STILL be easier to be vegan than to do that. But please, if you think it’s possible I challenge you to try it. Align your actions with your values.

I think the hardest part of carnism is just the hypocrisy. Nearly 47,000 people and counting overjoyed that tHe PuPpErS will be saved from those evil dog-eaters in Asia. Yet the vast majority of them do the same thing to pigs, cows, and chickens but would be mortally offended by vegans pointing out that their violence against animals is no different.

So many people in the comments were trying to defend why western carnism is correct and normal but Korean carnism is wrong and icky. “B-b-but pigs were bred for food so it’s okay to kill them. Dogs were bred to be loving companions so they must be saved!” So torture and murder are justified as long as you do it to every generation of someone’s family for centuries. It’s also ignorant because dogs have been bred for food for generations in South Korea. Shouldn’t it be equally fair to promote more dog breeding so that violence against them becomes even more acceptable over time? The hypocrisy is so brazen.