Much ai generate. Very wow
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Much ai generate. Very wow
Idk. I feel like I would like to upgrade Elon’s empathy.
Really obese cats can’t groom themselves well enough, so they get really bad fur mats
Our households cat is a healthy weight yet he still gets severe matting. He has to be shaved every couple years otherwise the matts will hurt him. Brushing doesn’t seem to help. He has a weird, almost silky feeling fur.
It’s not really viable to run a game studio with developers and artists who work full time to create free games.
I’m not asking for people to make their games free as in price, but rather free-as-in-freedom. Osu for instance is an open source game and they’re thriving. So it is possible to do so.
I’d love to buy the game if it was free software. What license does it use? I can’t find one on the site so I’m assuming it’s an all-rights-reserved situation.
What I am saying is you can’t completely eliminate all animal based sources of food from the planet and expect to feed everyone adequately.
Why not? It’s not like everyone would turn vegan overnight. It would be a gradual change and our food infrastructure would change with it
I can’t tell if this is sarcasm, sorry
Hunting and Fishing is the circle of life. As long as we do it as humanely as possible it is necessary to feed 8 billion people.
We do not need to hunt or fish to feed 8 billion people. In fact overfishing is a big ecological issue. And hunting and fishing are the circle of death, not life, as we don’t need to hunt or fish to survive, assuming you live in a technologically advanced civilization.
I’ve seen many comments on Lemmy glorifying hunting and fishing and nobody gets angry when they don’t get removed. Someone makes a comment about the theoretical possiblity of vegan cat food and people freak out when they reinstate it.
No, but it might make communites about hunting or fishing against the rules. Hopefully loving every day won’t be prohibited though.
I’m sure other crops have similar issues. Thats why I mentioned sugar and fruit as well. Mostly vegans just avoid animal products.
So you won’t eat honey but will eat almonds, even though both are exploiting honey bees?
Yes.
“Veganism is a philosophy and way of living which seeks to exclude—as far as is possible and practicable—all forms of exploitation of, and cruelty to, animals for food, clothing or any other purpose”
https://www.vegansociety.com/go-vegan/definition-veganism
Avoiding almonds is much less practical then just avoiding animal products. It’s not practical to avoid certain things. For example, lots of sugar is processed with bone char. However, most vegans don’t worry about that. Also some fruit is coated in shellac to look shiny, but it’s not worth worrying about either.
Do exploitation of animals such as this affect your morals.
Yes. I think that it is exploitation to use honeybees to pollinate crops. However, its way less harmful to animals then the meat, dairy, and egg industries. Therefore it isn’t really worth trying to fight against right now. If anything its a necessary evil now that honeybees are eating into native bee populations, reducing the amount of native bees able to pollinate.
I guess I am mainly raising the question of if your morals ever involve eating meat if it is killed under your ethical compass or if you consider the eating portion unethical in itself.
Using animals as food is exploitation of them. However, its a bit more complex then just saying its unethical as we live in a world where it is so normalized and a lot of places aren’t practical to be vegan in.
How about raising crickets or insects for food? I am guessing against because it follows the sentient plus raised to kill.
Correct.
what about honey? I would by no means consider honeybee conditions unethical. But interested in if you think so.
Even if its not unethical conditions, it is still exploitation of the honeybees. Also, honeybees take resources away from native bee populations. Therefore honeybees are harmful to the environment.
Feral hog would be the best thing I can thing of where it’s something that is a pest that is not too far out of a usual diet. So is that something available to your diet?
No I would not be okay with eating a feral hog. Just as I would not be okay with eating rats, mosquitoes, and ticks. It’s exploitation that isn’t necessary (unless you’re stranded on a deserted island or something). Also feral hogs aren’t really pests. They won’t infest your home and would only be an issue to you if they tried to attack you.
Those things you are still ok killing are sentient still
The difference is that mosquitoes, ticks, and infestations are harming us. Pigs on the other hand are innocent and we simply breed them and slaughter them for greed.
Like is hunting more ethical to raising livestock in your opinion.
I guess you could argue that, but I oppose hunting as well.
Is it really a bad thing to stop abusing animals even if it means the species dies out except for their wild counterparts?
Plants aren’t sentient. Animals are
Is there any animal that is ok to kill
Mosquitoes, ticks, bugs that try to steal/destroy your crops, rat infestations
is there any non-animal it’s not ok to kill?
I mean yeah. You shouldn’t walk into a national park and burn down the prarie. But that’s for conservation reasons, not because the plant is sentient (its not)
Who is talking about animal genocide?
Not really. You can just use a $10 splitter from Amazon