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Real carnivores beat their meat and eat it raw.
Practicability and ethics aside, do people not understand how ecosystems work? What do they think keeps herbivore populations from growing uncontrollably and overrunning our fields? Ask China about the sparrows.
That was a great read. How did they do getting rid of rats and mosquitoes?
do people not understand how ecosystems work?
Absolutely not. This is why my friend who studies Forrest ecology sounds like an insane person whenever someone brings up deer.
Hes a lovely human being who really loves animals, but he honestly advocates that everyone should be forced to kill deer any time they see one.
Give the herbivores abstinence only education
Sorry sir. We’ve miscalculated the experiment and cows are republican now.
Republican cows, voting to subsidize the meat industry because “it’s our heritage”.
“As a cow, I vote for the meat industry because I might become a farmer one day!”
“One day I’ll own this
bootslaughterhouse!”
This bothers me.
It’s like ohhh don’t let the wolves kill the sweet deer! Get rid of the wolves, they’re mean!
If you don’t kill deer they get stupid and wander into roads, and they eat all your baby trees, then your forests die off.
Deer evolved with predation. When predators are around they behave differently, the system needs both to keep in balance.
And being vegan is fine, but animals don’t really have a conscience where they are in conflict with the morality of causing harm or it being optional for them.
Surprisingly few people think about ecosystems. Those that do often do not gauge their complexity deeply enough and view them as temporally static for the most part.
That isn’t true.
Ah, but you see, they have read the first part of beastars and the got bored, so they know that carnivores are evil and we should defend herbivores from them, like we should defend females from men (also evil)
Are you trying to blend anti-veganism and sexism in one weird crappy comment?
No, you see, I don’t care about vegans, people can eat what they want. Animal ecosystems have nothing to do with that tho, and forcing human morals into the animals’ behaviour is detrimental to the environment (i.e. you are forcing the animals behaviour and domesticating it to fit your ideal). So, please, go eat vegan, you are free, but don’t come telling me we should seitan to lions because “think of the poor gazelles being eaten”. Lions are not evil for eating gazelles, and gazelles are not the good guys because they are the eaten, they are just animals behaving how they evolved to behave.
There also is no sexism in that, you just went “oh, he doesn’t like vegans, so he must be one of the people with all that shitty ideas I don’t like” and decided to warp what I said as sexist in your mind. If anything it is anti-sexist, because the idea (of which I am explicitly making fun of because I do not agree with it) that all women are weak and all men are all uncontrollable predators, and we, the strong, should keep women separate from men for protection is extremely sexist in multiple ways (it is also why Christians say women should wear long dresses, and Muslims say women should wear a veil, which are both considered sexist).
I don’t believe that vegans want to make wild animals be vegan. Some might, sure. But trying to display it as part of the vegan mentality is dishonest, and while there are a lot of stupid concepts around the idea of preventing animals from eating each other, it’s a bit absurd to try to pretend that it’s sooo hard to imagine wanting to avoid the horrible deaths of sentient creatures. It’s not about evil, it’s about suffering. And ridiculing all of those as a unit only serves the “people” who think animals are objects and can be tortured without care, as it pushes the idea that defending animals’ well-being is pathetic and stupid.
No one thinks that all women are weak and all men are predator, but this is the common view of “woke” people by sexist people, that often go with crap such as “not all men” and whatever. So if you are actually trying to be anti-sexist, you should avoid saying the same as the sexists.
Have you… Have you read the tumblr post you are commenting under? It is about feeding meat substitutes to animals… And the top level comment I was replying to is saying “that’s not how ecosystems work”…
Also, I never said vegans want to make wild animals vegan. If you didn’t say I was antivegan I would have never mentioned vegans in the first place. I am not against vegans as I have already said literally one comment ago. I am under a post about feeding meat substitutes to predators, making fun of people who think we should feed meat substitutes to predators.
No one thinks…
This is just factually wrong. Many people (often religious, but not necessarily and from various religions, not mostly, just often) base their view of the world on that idea. They probably won’t say it out loud like that. We call people with this kind of ideas “conservatives” but of course that’s not the whole thing, not all conservatives believe that, and it’s not just about that, I’m making a very loose statement here.
I will stop commenting about the sexist part, honestly if after I explained everything of what I said you still don’t get it, that’s on you.
Edit: before you comment (because I know you will) when I wrote “[…] go eat vegan, but don’t tell me […]” that is not saying that vegans say animals should be vegans. That is addressed to you specifically, who are lecturing me that I’m anti-vegan for making fun of people who think we should feed meat substitutes to animals.
Is there really a comment saying “let’s make sure this in no way could be good for animal rights”?
And then they say that vegans are the weirdos…
It’s almost like humor requires exaggeration.
Saying “it would be funny if <statement>” generally expresses support for the statement, humor or not.
You can’t just always hide shit by saying “it’s just a joke bro”
Sir, this is a Lemmy’s.
