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[–] 105 points 2 years ago (95 children)

the meme: "you're just lazy, right?"
the comments: "how dare you call me lazy, I actually enjoy hurting others"

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  • [–] 26 points 2 years ago

    This is my view on healthy eating in general. There needs to be some genuine attempt to educate people on cooking, and materials should be subsidized at worst. I was once arguing with a lib about the soda tax shit, and they kept saying how people should know how to eat healthier and grow produce and cook it, and I was trying so patiently to explain that raising prices from people in food deserts is not how you do that. Maybe start with regulating what companies can put IN food.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago

    Absolutely, a huge amount of it is food culture. I remember seeing advice an reddit to do rule of thirds on your plate and I realized how limiting that is, and how much more difficult it'd be to make veggie meals. Unfortunately it's the only way many people recognize a meal, and the jump from a heap of chicken on your plate to a heap of beans is much larger than the jump from a lentil curry with chicken to a lentil curry without.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago (89 children)

    I cant really empathize with animals like how i can people. I hit possums with my car on the way to work all the time (once a month or so). Its unavoidable because they charge into the road and its too windy to move out of the way usually.

    If i hit even one person id never live with the guilt and quit my job. Its unfair to expect 1 possum to equal 1 human. I understand you dont expect that. However, how many possums would i have to hit before it was enough for me to care much? It would have to be like when the cicadas come out - piles and piles of them for miles. I just value my husband having nice things more than the lives of those rodents, even though i like rodents a lot.

    So the meat industry is basically a giant concentration camp of suffering, but im unsure if the suffering outweighs all the workers it employs, or evsn ths fact that they taste good.

    At the same time, their suffering has value. Im excited for clone meat and i eat a lot of vegetables. It could easilly be that i cant empathize with them because of class consiousness similar to poor roman citizens not caring about the plight of slaves.

    So, if veganism benefitted my class id be more enthusiastic in becoming a vegetarian instead of just using meat in moderation. It would have to be something about how me not eating meat or doing local activism for animals helps. I cant change society and me not buying meat wont actually help animals.

    For example, my local activism was beneficial to people like me because it gave them a support network and community.

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  • [–] 50 points 2 years ago (13 children)

    Liberals are always saying things like this. "We can't get rid of the death camps because people work there"

    Ok we can get those people to do other jobs

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  • [–] 42 points 2 years ago (10 children)

    Said this elsewhere before, communists will pull out every liberal excuse when being criticized from the left about veganism.

    "They're mean" "Acktshually it's not as good for x as you think" "What about x group of people that this will impact" (who haven't even expressed opposition or concern about the issue) "You just care too much"

    Same vibes as supposed progressives who are sharing pro-Israel PragerU vids after criticizing PragerU on other topics.

    Ideally every comrade is vegan, but if for whatever reason you cannot be or are working towards it then at the absolute least you can support those who are and accept that it is the morally correct position instead of all this hoop jumping

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  • [–] 27 points 2 years ago

    Same vibes as supposed progressives who are sharing pro-Israel PragerU vids after criticizing PragerU on other topics.

    Ideally every comrade is vegan, but if for whatever reason you cannot be or are working towards it then at the absolute least you can support those who are and accept that it is the morally correct position instead of all this hoop jumping

    this

    Sorry for the cliche response, but really. This.

    order-of-lenin

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  • [–] 45 points 2 years ago (44 children)

    So the meat industry is basically a giant concentration camp of suffering, but im unsure if the suffering outweighs all the workers it employs, or evsn ths fact that they taste good.

    it's okay that sentient beings suffer because you think they taste good. you must realise how genuinely fucked up that thought is, right? what gives you any right to decide your favourite treat is more important than a life? animals feel pain. they have wants that aren't purely instinctual. their right to autonomy is more important than your desire for treats or a paycheck for workers - paycheck that comes at a heavy price, mind you. a job that requires mass killing has negative psychological and sometimes even physical effects on people.

    at the end of the day, we're leftists because we believe that pushing suffering on the innocent is wrong. pigs, cows, chickens have done nothing to deserve death. buying their corpses to eat is completely out of step with the values communists and anarchists claim to hold.

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  • [–] 32 points 2 years ago* (9 children)

    if your empathy and concern for suffering ends at humans, i don't think you're a proper leftist and you should take your belief in autonomy and freedom from oppression to it's logical conclusion (animal liberation)

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    i thought hexbear didn't allow sectarianism

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    it's not sectarian to advocate against suffering

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  • [–] 45 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    im unsure if the suffering outweighs all the workers it employs, or evsn ths fact that they taste good.

    The workers employed in that industry very often end up with PTSD because of all the horrors they experience every day. Stopping the support for the animal holocaust is the best way to help those fellow workers possibly find a better job in the processing of plant based food, possibly saving their lives.

    And yes, the suffering of others absolutely outweighs 15 minutes of sensory entertainment, how is that even a question?

    veganism benefitted my class id be more enthusiastic in becoming a vegetarian

    My first point already explained why it benefits your class, but I will also add that a vegan diet is the single most impactful thing someone can do to reduce their carbon footprint. So, if your class will suffer from climte change (it will) then going vegan is a necessity.

    And also this: Veggie-based diets could save 8 million lives by 2050 and cut global warming

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    My first point already explained why it benefits your class, but I will also add that a vegan diet is the single most impactful thing someone can do to reduce their carbon footprint. So, if your class will suffer from climte change (it will) then going vegan is a necessity.

    the idea of the personal carbon footprint is propaganda created by BP to distract from real environmental issues, much like the idea of the litterbug was corporate propaganda created to distract from actually meaningful pollution by industry.

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago*

    Yes, the personal carbon footprint is tiny compared to corporations, but that shouldn't be an excuse not to care about our individual impact. Getting people invested in the problem of the climate crisis is essential to get some regulations from our governments. We will get nothing if everyone just doesn't seem to care.

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  • [–] 45 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    So the meat industry is basically a giant concentration camp of suffering, but im unsure if the suffering outweighs all the workers it employs, or evsn ths fact that they taste good.

    Very good utilitarian way of thinking you're employing here, which can be used to justify everything else too very-intelligent I know slaves are suffering, but their suffering doesn't outweigh the money they're bringing to the empire, or even the fact that the shirt made from the cotton they picked is nice.

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