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@PM_me_trebuchets That fundamentally isn’t your decision to make though. You sterilize her for your convenience. Isn’t that messed up? You chose to own her, so now you get to decide if and when she has puppies - that feels like a messed up construction to me at its most basic level. The choice only goes one way, which means that when owner’s wishes and pet’s wishes collide, the owner gets their way, no matter what the cost to the pet.
@PM_me_trebuchets I contend that the whole notion of ownership of animals (as sentient beings) is immoral, no matter how good the conditions. That’s what I’m trying to get at here.
@PM_me_trebuchets You intimated that because *you* decided conditions are adequate, everything is by definition okay. I don’t subscribe to that logic.
Also, ‘normal’ farms *are* (at this point) factory farms. That’s just the reality, at least in the US and many other industrialized countries.
@PM_me_trebuchets @tributarium Question: what exactly do you hope to achieve by barging in and insulting anyone who questions your (perhaps motivated) reasoning? You are a textbook example of how not to have an actual conversation. Instead of actually engaging with the points being made (and giving the reasons you disagree with them), you instead stoop to insulting people who are trying to have an actual conversation with you.
Go outside and touch grass, my friend. Anger is bad for you :)
@PM_me_trebuchets @Gold_E_Lox So ownership is fine as long as the owner determines that the conditions are adequate? Seems pretty sus.
@PM_me_trebuchets Also, if I were ‘normal’, I would have accepted the meat, dairy, and egg industries as ‘normal’ and not at all exploitative. That is, I would not be vegan. But I actually like to think about these things and question my assumptions, even if it’s uncomfortable.
@PM_me_trebuchets You’re not actually addressing my points. What gives you the right to determine whether your pet is allowed to reproduce?
@PM_me_trebuchets Not to mention stuff like declawing (for the convenience of the *owner*, we rip out cat’s claws?!) or locking up pet birds (not to mention ‘exotic’ pets, a.k.a. wild animals!). In so many ways, pets are treated as objects whose agency is denied.
@PM_me_trebuchets But what gives you the right to decide if your pet is allowed to reproduce? And I’m not the one claiming pets are part of my family - pet owners are! So it makes sense to examine whether that actually holds up upon closer scrutiny.
@PM_me_trebuchets @tributarium It’s particulary problematic with pets because we see fit to *literally cut off their ability to reproduce*, among other things. People say pets are like family, but if you locked your child up in the house (for their safety, ofc) and neutered them without their consent, you would be thrown in jail for child endangerment.
@PM_me_trebuchets @tributarium While domestication of several plant and animal species is clearly a “thing” when looking at human history (many of our most common crops are domesticated, for example), the shift from nominally seeing your pet as a partner (in, say, hunting, which is what dogs were originally domesticated for) to an object to be owned is *much* newer (and problematic IMO).
@themusicman @xapr Yup, that’s mostly how we shop. I’m vegan and my wife is vegetarian, so fruits, veggies, legumes/nuts/seeds from the bulk section, dairy and tofu from the fridge sectioo. Some of the ‘safe’ inner-aisle foods are pasta (we get legume pasta), canned tomato (we get the ones without salt), artichoke hearts, and that’s pretty much it (oh, I guess silken tofu is in an inner aisle as well).
@Chickenstalker @MicroWave So I guess most ants are biological failures then, since they don’t reproduce. Funny how they’re so abundant to the point that their aggregate biomass rivals that of our own.
@science
@Treczoks @realitista
No? As a feminist, I *do* want to see men stop subscribing to toxic masculinity. I want us to realize that it’s okay to seek help and it’s okay to be vulnerable.
@intensely_human @SkyeStarfall Yes? Or rather, the *assumption* that she would is toxic masculinity. If she actually does that, she’s bought into the same toxic bullshit.
It’s toxic no matter whom it’s coming from. You *deserve* someone whom you can open up to.
@pabloscloud
I have boots from here and they’re great (I personally got the WVSport Insulated Waterproof Hiking Boots, but they also have other types of boots):
https://www.wills-vegan-store.com/
@FauxPseudo @jarfil You don’t need 2g/lb of lean bw, though. The premise is *wildly* incorrect.
@jfmezei@mstdn.ca @Deebster@programming.dev @TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world @firefox@fedia.io Maybe because Mozilla and their partners actually did use machine learning to build the model that powers the local translation feature?
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/local-translation-add-on-project-bergamot/