2026-07-29 13:48 UTC
@afewbugs@social.coop I will just say, a large part of the reason I went vegan (from vegetarian) was that it eventually became clear to me that there is no ethical way to treat animals as factories. Like, eggs and milk are produced as part of the reproductive cycle (and while we can trick chickens into laying eggs by fake-raping them, cows actually have to be raped continuously). And *none* of that deals with cages vs free-range or the diet the animals are fed or whatever.
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@chiraag@mastodon.online 2026-07-29 13:50
@afewbugs@social.coop And the lie I was told (growing up) was that being vegetarian was the ethical thing to do (since we're not killing the animals). And like, sure, I guess it's better than the omnivore diet in that way. But I found it hard to take the moral high ground when my diet involved continuously raping cows and chickens. There are of course *other* animal welfare concerns (free-range, pasture-fed, etc etc etc), but...none of that addresses the heart of the issue for me. 2/?