It just frustrates me a little when discussion of a specific issue gets immediately derailed into discussion of another related issue.
Even now youtube has a ton of torture-adjacent videos about hurt or distressed baby monkeys, catering to the same group that the torture rings cater to.
Immediately ignoring that in favour of the usual vegan talking points feels suboptimal, to me. There’s nothing actually wrong with paying specific attention to specific subjects sometimes.
It’s apparently always the wrong time to bring up what happens to “food” animals.
When it’s on post about animal cruelty we’re derailing and taking away from the specific case.
When it’s on any other post it’s irrelevant and preachy.
So when should we speak up for the billions of animals getting needlessly abused and killed?
I don’t personally have a problem with vegans making points about vegan ethical beliefs in general. It’s just the derailing away and equivalence fallacy I dislike - ironically I think it trivialises both issues.
Reminding people that they are paying for horrific animal abuse doesn’t take away from other cases
Not sure how it looks from your instance, but I now have to scroll down past at least 21 comments of the usual omnivore/vegan debates before I can find a comment that’s actually about OP’s article on macaque torture rings.
It kind of reminds me of how over on reddit any mention of violence against women in the big subs would get drowned in a tide of comments about violence against men.
If it had been part of a contextualised conversation it would have been different.
While there is an argument that eating meat is bad, we are talking about literally torturing animals without any purpose other than entertainment. This is a different level of awful.
Appearently it’s never the right time to bring it up
Put it in a discussion community, ask them, try to brainstorm a new normal. This is news, of course people won’t be very open to listen to ancillary discussion topics.
It’s apparently always the wrong time to bring up what happens to “food” animals.
When it’s on post about animal cruelty we’re derailing and taking away from the specific case.
When it’s on any other post it’s irrelevant and preachy.
So when should we speak up for the billions of animals getting needlessly abused and killed?
Reminder that the animals people eat are also living and feeling beings who don’t want to die for your burger.
While you are correct, this is taking away from the outrage about the hurt animals mentioned in this post.
Its rarely like: poor animals I’ve been eating all my life, I’ll be vegan now.
It’s more often like: good point, I shouldn’t care about these animals neither.
That’s an incredibly silly way of looking at it lol
You, hearing that someone is torturing monkeys: “ah yes that reminds me I should torture some monkeys”
???
I would still rather be killed and eaten than slowly tortured for weeks by someone making money off torture videos.
Neither needs to happen
A lot of things that happen in this world don’t need to happen.
Wouldn’t you rather just live and not be tortured?
It just frustrates me a little when discussion of a specific issue gets immediately derailed into discussion of another related issue.
Even now youtube has a ton of torture-adjacent videos about hurt or distressed baby monkeys, catering to the same group that the torture rings cater to.
Immediately ignoring that in favour of the usual vegan talking points feels suboptimal, to me. There’s nothing actually wrong with paying specific attention to specific subjects sometimes.
It’s apparently always the wrong time to bring up what happens to “food” animals.
When it’s on post about animal cruelty we’re derailing and taking away from the specific case.
When it’s on any other post it’s irrelevant and preachy.
So when should we speak up for the billions of animals getting needlessly abused and killed?
I don’t personally have a problem with vegans making points about vegan ethical beliefs in general. It’s just the derailing away and equivalence fallacy I dislike - ironically I think it trivialises both issues.
Any post about it outside vegan communities gets downvoted to hell.
I’m glad you don’t personally have a problem with people against animal cruelty.
Reminding people that they are paying for horrific animal abuse doesn’t take away from other cases of abuse.
Not sure how it looks from your instance, but I now have to scroll down past at least 21 comments of the usual omnivore/vegan debates before I can find a comment that’s actually about OP’s article on macaque torture rings.
It kind of reminds me of how over on reddit any mention of violence against women in the big subs would get drowned in a tide of comments about violence against men.
If it had been part of a contextualised conversation it would have been different.
So maybe take the hint
No, I won’t stop speaking up against billions of animals getting needlessly abused and killed just because the abusers don’t wanna hear it.
I totally agree.
While there is an argument that eating meat is bad, we are talking about literally torturing animals without any purpose other than entertainment. This is a different level of awful.
Put it in a discussion community, ask them, try to brainstorm a new normal. This is news, of course people won’t be very open to listen to ancillary discussion topics.
Plants let out an ultrasonic scream when their leaves are cut or they don’t get enough water
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.businessinsider.com/plants-shriek-with-high-pitched-ultrasonic-clicks-when-stressed-study-2023-3%3famp
Most farmed plants are used as animal feed, eating plants directly uses much less.
So even if this nonsense argument had any validity veganism would still be the answer.
You choose to ignore the screams that your ears cant decipher.
What? I just told you that less plants are “harmed” for a planet based diet than a meat filled one.
I wonder what all the people downvoting think, do they disagree that “food” animals are also living beings?
They think this isn’t the time or place to bring that up. ffs have some tact. Or self awareness at least
It’s apparently always the wrong time to bring up what happens to “food” animals.
When it’s on post about animal cruelty we’re derailing and taking away from the specific case.
When it’s on any other post it’s irrelevant and preachy.
So when should we speak up for the billions of animals getting needlessly abused and killed?