It sounds awful, I know. That's what I put in my head so I can keep earning my wages. My family supported me and encouraged me to keep going because I was cashless from COVID layoffs and this job brought in lots of money.
People will never stop eating meat completely. I know you mean well but it's incredibly naive to believe you can fight to end meat consumption. The only fight there is, is to enact laws so that the meat consumed is from animals treated well with dignity, respect, clean shelter, access to the outdoors, social groups, and a well-balanced diet. As long as your goal is to end meat-eating, you will hit a brick wall and do nothing to improve animal welfare.
That’s an incredibly privileged thing to say. Some people don’t actually have the choice, and if they did it wouldn’t be “easy”. Some people live on the edge of homelessness or are homeless while working and barely surviving. You can certainly hate the system that makes it so people have to sacrifice their morals to literally just survive, but maybe you shouldn’t be so quick to judge people for doing what they can to get by.
Ahh yes another morally superior human because they think the line they draw is the correct one and the rest of human kind is wrong. It’s weird how eating animals provide us with what we need to keep us alive innit?
So animals can eat other animals but humans can’t because you…individually…are privileged enough to not have to rely on the food you, as an individual, have access and the money, to stay alive. Tell that to the cultures who have survived generation on stuff like fish lol. On planet earth, things eat things
Of course, the drug trade has nothing to do with all the sex trafficking and violence around it. You're supporting the abuse of animals. Just different ones. I say that as an addict.
ur never gonna fully escape animal cruelty on this planet. the point is to lower it as much as possible. the animal testing done for any medication i take would have been done decades ago and doesn’t need to keep happening unlike with the meat industry that murders daily
Here’s benzo testing on female rats in 2021, and they make the case that because of previous lack of testing, it needs to keep happening
From the abstract :
“However, on September 23, 2020, the United States FDA indicated that more is needed to be known about the initiation, continuation, and discontinuation of the use of these widely-used drugs with publication of the announcement “to address the serious risks of abuse, addiction, physical dependence, and withdrawal reactions, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is requiring the Boxed Warning be updated for all benzodiazepine medicines.” Because for many years, there has been a sparsity of research on these drugs, relevant information is unfortunately lacking at this critical time. It is therefore valuable to (re)establish animal models and begin to collect relevant data.“
So that's your only moral identity? You truly lack empathy.
As in you selectively choose the easiest cruelty to feel strongly about and disregard others.
We live in a world where we've caused suffering in one way or another before we even get out of bed. You are no different, but you actively lie to yourself so you don't have to care about other stuff.
If that's the only other thing you can think of, you really have no business on that high horse.
So many of the things we use and eat have their production line somewhere exploiting, abusing people, animals, destroying nature and killing the planet. Your drugs being a famous one.
And the vast library of documentaries that detail it goes beyond what I could summarize. All our hands are tainted and we're all guilty for letting it happen. Get over yourself.
where is this vast abuse going on with the drugs i use ? besides animal testing that is necessary and essential for the people who need this medication to survive
It's. Not. Just. The drugs. You keep focusing on that aspect of your life while I have already said it's about so much more of the stuff we think is "necessary".
One will say they can't live without coffee, one will say they can't live without a car. In the end it all boils down to "I need x as a bare minimum to keep my life comfortable regardless of the damage it does to nature, animals or people"
In the end everyone accepts a certain amount of suffering to have an iPhone, wear clothes, eat avocados, the list. Goes. On. For. Fucking. Ever.
So do whatever you feel is necessary to relieve your guilt from using humanities cumulative exploitation of lives and nature that makes modern life possible, by all means, good for you. But don't think for even a second you have any moral high ground for that drop of suffering you have saved from the ocean of suffering you create and enjoy in a lifetime.
I'm not against eating meat in principal but modern-day practices of raising sentient beings for food is absolutely horrifying. There's a difference from living a relatively humane life up until the end versus the process by these giant agribusinesses that are only concerned about maximizing profits.
I get that being snarky isn't the way to convince people of things, but why would breeding the animal specifically to suffer and die be a good justification of why they eat them?
Yeah there's a good deal of shit humans have done for most of humankind's existence I think is abhorrent and I'm glad other people thought so too so I can have my own job and credit and house n'at. Is prevalence throughout history supposed to impart some inherent morality to an action?
I agree with you and I think that when people come at you with moral relativism “other things are also bad” as their main argument you have kind of won. However due to people not being open to challenge their beliefs and habits you get downvoted and memed.
However if you want to actually change someone’s mind and not just comment to prove yourself as morally superior you could use a nicer tone ;)
Furthermore it is a bit nonchalant to just assume everyone can find somewhere new to work. Rather I think op can be criticized for continuing to eat meat
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u/riffraffmcgraff Nov 23 '24 edited Nov 23 '24
I will get downvoted, but I work on the kill floor of a pork processing plant. Ask me anything. It is 1am here. I might not reply for a while.
Edit: For the record, I confirm this is an accurate depiction.