What happened in the vegan community?

I hadn’t heard about any of this until seeing that ToS post.

  • Varyk@sh.itjust.worksOP
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    23 days ago

    their vitriol is…weird. if they just said “i prefer…” not many would be bothered.

    “you’re a murderer.” does tend to ruffle feathers.

    • itsgoodtobeawake@lemmy.world
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      22 days ago

      Forreal, longtime vegan here… Vegans (online mostly) annoy me more than most people. I swear we aren’t all jerks! I’m probably a major sell out, I don’t even have a problem with hunters.

      • Cris@lemmy.world
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        22 days ago

        Honestly as a linux nerd sometimes I feel like us open source folks have a similar problem

        You do a bunch of work and make sacrifices to accomplish living in a way you feel proud of! Wonderful! And then you turn around and antagonize people who don’t invest all their time and energy in the issue that you personally really connect with…! Oh… Wonderful… 🙃

    • JaggedRobotPubes@lemmy.world
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      22 days ago

      A lot of us are murderers in that way. Or accomplices, whatever. The thing about vegans specifically is that there’s not any moral need for it. The goodness to animals would make you vegetarian. Not having cheese or eggs is not the slightest bit morally better.

      • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world
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        22 days ago

        Eh kinda. The working conditions of cows and chickens is pretty horrible. I could see not wanting to be involved in that.

        But personally, I’m going to worry about improving the working conditions of humans first.

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        22 days ago

        Well now I’m wondering if you ever had an actual conversation with a vegan, because they actually have good reasons for this. A vegan diet is simply the most consequential idea if you want to minimize the necessity for animals to die, at the very least (even if we ignore the various ways of exploitation) because male chickens and calves obviously have to be killed in order for these industries to function.

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          21 days ago

          I’ve had conversations with vegans, and when one said that honey isn’t vegan because it’s produced by an insect (they said animal, but that’s incorrect), I stopped pretending that (at least some) vegans have any logic to their arguments.

          • TheTechnician27@lemmy.world
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            20 days ago

            But aren’t you the one advocating that this is okay? Why do I need a trigger warning for something so deeply and obviously ethical?

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              20 days ago

              your deeply biased YouTube video is notoriously traumatizing, with the production house that made it providing aftercare tips. viewers report sleeplessness, nightmares, vomiting, lack of appetite and depression.

              you are acting irresponsibly

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                20 days ago

                I feel like I’m being trolled right now. It’s a documentary which is expressly about the extensive, systemic animal abuse that happens in the industry, and the first instance of that is over 5 minutes in. Did you not expect gore? Is this not like the most fundamentally obvious thing you could possibly expect from such a documentary?

                Edit: oh, comment history tells me that I am being trolled. Interesting. Have a nice day.

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                  20 days ago

                  I know all about your YouTube video, but unsuspecting people could be triggered, and it is your responsibility to warn others when you endanger them.

                  • TheTechnician27@lemmy.world
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                    20 days ago

                    They’re just filming what you paid for. You should’ve warned the camera crew of the documentary before endangering them.