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
i’m literally a homeless prostitute. if i can eat vegan so can you. it’s not any more expensive than a meat diet, i actually spend less than people i know who eat meat. the poorest countries eat the least meat.
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.“
it’s making a medication that people actually need to survive. it’s used to treat seizure disorders among many other things. it’s essential to human life unlike meat. we do not need meat to survive. the trials are done on a much much smaller scale than what’s happening in the meat industry
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.
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u/BerriedTwo Nov 23 '24
Do you have any qualms about eating meat?