Oh, so you think it’s okay to eat plants but not animals? Those raw carrots are alive when you bite into them. Many plants demonstrate an awareness of their surroundings, at least on some level. Who are you to decide that it’s moral to eat one form of life and not another? Filthy kingdomist.

This proposal is equivalent in many ways to “humane” slavery: the system justified by the lack of shackles, the families kept together, the spacious sleeping quarters.

What happened to Cecil was disgusting for many reasons, and like other people, I’ve been pretty vociferous about how enraged it made me.

An alternative model that’s been proposed—a more humane way of killing animals because they taste good—is to have open-range farms, where the animals can graze and experience sunshine before they are killed.

Soo...I’m basically a vegan at this point (trying it again for animal welfare/ health) and I guess I don’t like people using this story to essentially push their vegan ism. If u want to see more vegans in the world, try not make absurd analogies about eating animals and human slavery. It just makes you look like an…

Here’s the thing about eating meat: It’s what gave humans the brainpower necessary to transcend our origins and become the dominant species we are today. The fats and protein in meat are GOOD for us (in moderation), help our brains develop, and ensure that our bodies work in the right way. Our teeth evolved the way…

I personally have to eat meat to stay healthy. I’ve dealt with anemia for the last few years. In fact just recently I finally had numbers that were within a healthy range and am not currently anemic. And that only happened both with eating meat and using supplements. Supplements only do so much. And yes I’m aware…

Ohhhhhhhhhhkay. So, I can totally get behind careful consideration of the ethics of the food and products we consume. I am all about this. But I am not a vegetarian, and I am not a vegetarian, in part, because of ethical concerns. 1) Our entire food system is fucked up. A lot of human labor is involved in the…

I would like you to carefully reread her post and then read those critical comments. A lot of it has to do with horrible false equivalencies like ‘free range farming is as bad as ‘humane’ slavery.’ That’s a different anger than anger about needing to think critically about eating meat.

As a former hunter (who has lost interest in the sport) who comes from a family of hunters and grew up in hunting country, there tends to be a lot of “no true Scotsman” type of stuff around this issue. You’ll hear people insist that “the vast majority” (or some such quantity) of hunters follow the rules and try to…

I’m a vegetarian. I was a vegan for 7 years. The entire time I was reading this, I wanted someone to throw a fucking shoe at you. It’s like you’re so close to having a point and then you suddenly see a cliff and think, “I SHOULD JUMP OFF OF THIS CLIFF OF ABSURDITY INSTEAD!” Stop. Please. Just stop.

We’ve already hunted the apex predators (bears, wolves and panthers in particular in the US—because they are “scary and mean to people”) down to levels so low that their natural hunting patterns can no longer control the populations of their prey, so we could let the deer and the like play literal Hunger Games every…

Important to note: there is no lion season.

This is why people have a hard time respecting vegetarians and/or vegans. Because there ar ea lot of posts professing a “holier than thou” or damning attitude to someone else becaues they enjoy eating meat.

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.

I was following along until you compared open range cow farms to slavery. Then you kind of lost me.

*chortle*

Now seems like a solemn and rightful opportunity to reflect on when it is acceptable to kill an animal, and when it is not.

Cod, I hate PETA. Why is it that animal rights activism has to be about white female beauty standards?