• Ephera@lemmy.ml
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    27 days ago

    The longest was probably the vegetarian → vegan pipeline.
    My position was that ‘employment’ of animals was humanely possible, if you genuinely treated them like you’d want to be treated.

    It was until I read how cows need to basically be kept continuously pregnant, that I realized there was just no way.
    I believe, you could have a bite of cheese every year or so, if we don’t do forceful impregnation, but at that point, why even bother?

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        27 days ago

        I had to explain to someone recently that the person who told him chicken is vegan was fucking with him. He was genuinely still a little confused after.

        There was a crazy amount of people conflating organic with vegan when that fur hat J6 guy went to prison and asked for a special diet too.

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          26 days ago

          I generally don’t mention it if I can help it, or I just say I don’t eat animal products. But people still have a hard time figuring out basic things like honey is an animal product.

          Look, I just don’t want to disturb the animals if I can help it, alright? It’s just super unnecessary for my survival.

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      26 days ago

      The US government stores over a billion pounds of cheese in enormous caves. I think we can probably get away with reducing production quite a bit.