• HollowNaught@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    This might just be me, but an exclamation point ruins this joke, and many similar ones

    With no exclamation point, I read this as a very dry, very serious response, and the comedy comes from the absurdity of what’s said with a straight face

    When I see the exclamation mark, my brain goes “BOOMER BOOMER BOOMER”

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        1 year ago

        Anti-vegans are way more annoying and overzealous in my experience. I rarely see the stereotypical asshole vegan but I do often see the obnoxious anti-vegan.

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        1 year ago

        The difference between veganism and religion is that one is based on facts, the other is not.

        • It’s true that other species of animals are sentient, they have nervous systems similar enough to ours that we know they can feel pleasure and pain.
        • It’s true that we kill billions of them per year.
        • It’s true that the vast majority of them are factory farmed (74% worldwide, 99% in the US).
        • It’s true that humans at all stages of life can thrive on a properly planned vegan diet, according to most major health organizations.
        • It’s true that animal agriculture is extremely inefficient and loses a lot of calories from crops being put towards feeding animals (see: trophic levels)
        • It’s true that animal agriculture has a huge impact on the environment compared to feeding crops directly to humans.

        so get out of here with that nonsense that veganism is religious zealotry. I don’t have time to cite a source for each point, but they’re all super easily verified. Veganism is looking at the impact of your choices with clear eyes and choosing compassion over personal pleasure. It’s choosing to live and let live, rather than forcing death and misery on other species because you like the taste of their flesh and secretions.

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          And you start from a base assumption that any of that matters in terms of food.

          It’s like a retronym, picking facts to claim as a basis for a belief that’s rooted in a moral code.

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            No, veganism as a conclusion is a combination of facts and basic moral understanding, principles like “live and let live”, “do no harm”, and the golden rule, do unto others as you would have them do to you. If you’re a psychopath who doesn’t care how much harm, death, and suffering is caused in order to get sensory pleasure, I probably can’t convince you why veganism is worthwhile