There actually are some people who have to eat meat. I’m one of them. I have a digestive disorder that makes it extremely painful and disabling for me to eat anything non-meat that has enough protein to sustain life. I spend the money to buy meat from animals raised and slaughtered humanely. Those animals would never…

Well, I’m glad that you are smart enough to say that people aren’t terrible for eating meat. However, when you say “NO ONE is saying that,” you’re definitely wrong. One example would be the blog post we’re all replying to. Another would be that popular Vox opinion piece going around the web (where the author says that…

My issue always has been that everyone is so concerned with the lives of these poor animals, but no one gives a shit about the people living in indentured servitude who make your fresh veggies available and low cost. I don’t care what the circumstance is, people trump animals every time.

Also too powerful for empathy and consideration: Amy Pascal’s vagina and “ISIS brides.”

Third, yes migrant workers and the terrible conditions for those picking fruits and veggies is terrible. The system needs to be fixed. Just because it’s terrible doesn’t mean eating meat should continue.

You really don’t understand what’s fucked up about this analogy? Are you telling me that after understanding the history of humans in chains and treated as beasts of burden you don’t understand why it’s a shitty idea to liken actual animals to the plight of humans who by the way are still treated as animals (see…

The “millions of dollars” bit is actually wildly overblown. The idea that trophy hunting is a valuable force for conservation is one pro-hunting groups love to trot out, but in reality, only something like 3% of the money spent is used for conservation purposes, or comes anywhere near the local communities it’s…

How are you not losing your sanity dealing with fuckwit people??

lol calm down icn it is clearly not satire it is totally satirizing satire duh, you genius

She is equating black people to animals. How is that not fucked up to you?

And someone else said it best: the privileged white woman (Natasha) thinks that eating chicken is akin to black people in slavery in the 19th century.

And people who eat quinoa need to know exactly what they’re doing to the Peruvian and Bolivian economy, yo. Shit is real out here.

She literally used the word equivalent.

(she used the word equivalent.)

I did.

I am pretty uncomfortable calling what Black Americans go through and what livestock go through “like oppressions.” I struggle with the ethics of meat eating myself (I still do it). It’s possible to be unhappy with the current state of animal farming and ALSO be incredibly offended by the comparison of people with…

Regarding animals in the same terms as people of color might be Jezebel’s hottest, freshest, whitest take yet.

i’m not saying its a bad organization but Zimbabwe is the one shouldering the cost of maintaining these wildlife reserves

First of all, I have already expanded on that. See my reply to idano. Second of all, who said I was talking about factory farming? NVC herself mentioned open-range farms.

I think - sorry - there is a pretty big difference between eating chicken and poaching a critically endangered animal from a place where white westerners have plundered resources and abused the land for hundreds of years.