Yeah, but the festival was meant to be completely animal product-free, other stalls likely had some variety of mock meat, and apparently this one didn’t make it clear that their food really did contain animal products.

Male laying chickens are culled at birth because they can’t lay eggs, the females are killed once their egg production drops after a couple of years, and being bred to lay eggs so intensively puts them at risk of health issues.

After going long enough without eating meat, vegans lose the ability to digest it properly. If I’d gone to this festival and accidentally eaten some meat from this truck because I thought it was mock meat, I’d get sick a few hours later.

If I accepted that there was no ethical difference between hurting animals and hurting plants, that would still make the case for a vegan diet, because animals need to consume several times more food (i.e., either plants, or something that ate plants) during their lifetime than they can produce.

This is such a common argument that there are literally pre-written responses for it that I can just copy-paste.

Unless eating corn-on-the-cob is a violation of one’s ethical beliefs, makes them sick because they haven’t had it in so long that they no longer have the enzymes necessary to properly digest it, and can be easily mistaken for the mock corn-on-the-cob at this supposedly 100% corn-free festival, I’m not really…

Unless eating salad is a violation of one’s ethical beliefs, makes them sick because they haven’t had it in so long that they no longer have the enzymes necessary to properly digest it, and can be easily mistaken for mock vegetables at this supposedly 100% vegetable-free festival, I’m not really seeing the comparison…

The vegan community is largely pretty enthusiastic about clean meat, to the point where they’re one of the groups actively working to make it happen - because even at the very worst, it would be a lot fewer animals suffering and dying for our taste preferences. Even PETA offered a million dollar reward at one point…

The funeral seems kind of dumb - that being said, I’m a Black Lives Matter supporter, and I care about chickens. I think animal abuse is wrong, including what we do to farm animals.

Actually, the first time I had “chicken,” nuggets, I didn’t even realise they weren’t real chicken until someone told me. I was really surprised at how realistic it was.

Because many vegetarians and vegans like the taste of chicken nuggets, but swore off them for ethical reasons?

Just so you know, vegans are one of the groups trying to bring clean meat into reality, to the point where PETA even put out a reward for lab-grown chicken at one point. Paul Shapiro of the Humane Society has talked about it.

I can see how that would be the inspiration for the episode - but yeah, the fact that Sims and NPCs aren’t conscious like the USS Callister AIs were portrayed to be makes them entirely different scenarios.

Unfertilized eggs might not be animals, but producing them still involves killing animals - the boy chicks are all killed straight away because they can’t produce eggs and it’s more profitable to treat them as waste products than raise them for meat, since they’re a different breed to the meat chickens. And the laying…

When I told my friend of this story, he asked if it was consensual, and I had to clarify that no, in this instance the term “sex slave,” was being used in the literal way and not the fun role-playing way.

My favourite bit was Toni’s reaction to Cheryl confessing to arson and assault.

FWIW, her stabbing was a recreation of the way Mama White died in the 1976 Carrie movie, so it could just be an Easter egg.

If it were Kevin, Ethel, Chic, or Fangs, I guess they would’ve had to have been working with the janitor or someone else, ‘cause I’m pretty sure they weren’t the man who shot Fred in the diner. I think that’d apply to Keller too, actually - he’s the right age, and he might have green eyes, but he has a distinctly…

My brother once made me, his sister, spit up water by cracking a good joke about our dad. There’s a nice kind of synergy there.

Wikipedia says there are six candidates in this Republican primary. Now, I wouldn’t say I’m particularly in touch with the Republican voter mindset generally. But I especially find it hard to understand anyone who would look at a pool of six, then pick the guy who went to jail for being a Captain Planet villain.

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