no one likes animal abuse

Obviously I'd prefer it if you didn't eat animals but I'm actually chill with just being more mindful about what you support. If you're going out of your way to try and minimise the harm you're doing then that's better than most people.

And at least you recognise the environmental harm. The only thing that really annoys me is people lying about these things.

There's this great game on the internet called Half Earth Socialism. The idea is the earth has converted to a single socialist government, and you get to be president of Earth for life. Can you save the earth from climate change without losing popular support and being coup'ed?

A lot of people say they failed this game because it's too hard. But I didn't, I won on the first try. One of the biggest things I did in the game was make meat eating illegal. It was a really hard policy to push and I lost a lot of support with my constituents, I nearly got ousted. But then pollution started going down, temperature slowed its rise, extinction went down, biodiversity went up, and everyone was happier. Within a few years my approval rating was back up and then some. I also banned cars and it was the same effect.

What I'm saying is your meat should be illegal.

Except dairy farmers

So you're saying the cows in farms all consent to being impregnated by a farmer's fist up their vagina? How? How do cows consent to handjobs?

Huh, I wonder if sheep used to grow less sool and humans just bred them for a lot of wool. Time to go research!

Edit: that is exactly what happened. Wild sheep do not grow a lot of wool.

I didn't choose to ignore anything. I just have a life outside of being an annoying vegan.

You already knew what I was going to say, though. I'm personally against wool products because they breed sheep specifically to grow unhealthy amounts of wool and once the few good coats they have in them are gone they send them off to be killed for food anyway.

Sheep can also be mistreated during the shearing process, and since shearers are often paid per sheep they're incentivised to rush through them.

I'm not going to use the word rape here since I don't think it applies.

Have I activated any trap cards?

There's nothing wrong with shearing sheep if there's no exploitation occurring. The problem is when you add a profit motive to keep breeding animals designed with their exploitation in mind.

However, I'm going to go out on limb here, and say there probably aren't many sheep in the care of vegans except on animal sanctuaries. The important thing is to stop buying wool and funding animal exploitation.

I think one should only be allowed to shear sheep if they're either not breeding their sheep, or breeding them to produce more manageable coats like in the wild. Ideally our sheep population would be much lower and the animals would naturally be healthy. So people should only be allowed to extract labour value from their sheep if they're working to reduce exploitation.