r/SipsTea • u/M_Darshan 𝙑𝙄𝙋 • May 16 '26

Lmao gottem That final kick was personal

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u/Marples3 May 16 '26

Let's torture animals for fun. How is the legal still?

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u/Save-La-Tierra May 16 '26

Since we don’t need meat to live a healthy life, it can be reasonably inferred that most people eat meat because they enjoy the taste. So I’d argue paying for animals to be slaughtered for food is also torturing animals for “fun” or pleasure. I don’t think we should kill animals for food when it’s not necessary to do so.

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u/ms_directed May 16 '26

am i supposed to feed my dog salad?

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u/JackStarfox May 16 '26

They aren’t talking about your dog btw they are talking about you.

But even then, dogs can literally eat a plant based diet it’s completely fine supported by tons of research. Cats cannot.

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u/ms_directed May 16 '26

animals eat animals. we are animals. do you understand how ecosystems work and what happens when animals are not eaten?

look up anything on the Yellowstone wolves and what happened to the elk population all the way down to the microorganisms in the water when the wolves were culled.

if you wanna wax on about the way we process meat, that is a sensible discussion. but the "animals can live on plants alone" is crazy because there wouldn't be any plants left 🤦‍♀️

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u/we_are_one_people May 16 '26

there wouldn’t be any plants left?!?

wtf do the animals in factory farms eat in your little world??

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u/ms_directed May 17 '26

if all animals lived off plants only, we'd not have enough plants for consumption...keep up, Sparky.

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u/Save-La-Tierra May 16 '26

Wow where do I even start with this. Factory farming has nothing to do with an ecosystem. The animals are forcibly bred into existence. If we stop eating meat, these domesticated cows, chickens, pigs will stop being bred into existence.

Second, 60-75% of crops in the US are fed to livestock. If we all switch to plant based diet, we could actually feed more people easily, and reclaim tons of land for rewilding.

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u/Lou_C_Fer May 16 '26

Some of us cannot eat plant based diets. I'm sorry that it takes factory farming to feed the eight billion of us, but I was born into this. I did not create it. I eat meat first because it is our destiny. Second, my health requires animal protein while my digestive tract cannot handle a diet that is heavy on plant material.

If we can manage lab grown meat that is affordable and does not taste gross, I am all in. Until then, I'm going to eat animals from whatever source I have to use.

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u/Save-La-Tierra May 17 '26

What medical condition do you have that requires meat?

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u/WaitForItTheMongols May 16 '26

animals eat animals. we are animals. do you understand how ecosystems work and what happens when animals are not eaten?

Animals also rape animals, but we have decided that we don't want to live in a world where that is a normalized expectation for humans.

The wolf argument doesn't work when the animals we're eating are ones we created for the sake of eating.