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Originally Posted by Irace86.2.0
You should really finish the video because he addresses all arguments against veganism, which should be clear in the video title.
Plants don't have central nervous systems or pain receptors, so killing plants is not the same as killing animals, nor is the process of growing plants torturous like it is for animals.
Your second statement is obviously false. We can eat plants directly, or we can feed animals plants and then eat animals, which is eating plants indirectly. Which is more efficient? Which results in more plants being eaten? Like he said, 70-80% of soy (if I remember correctly) is used to feed livestock. If someone wanted to reduce the consumption of plants in the world then they would be vegan.
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It's not going to convince me to go vegan, so why bother. I don't have any arguments against you or anyone else eating vegan. The whole 'holier than thou' attitude is the part I have arguments with.
Animals don't have higher thought processes like humans do, so killing animals is not the same as killing humans. Livestock doesn't think or have desires. They do not have the potential for intellectual growth like a human does. So why is it appropriate to equate killing a human to killing livestock?
We can feed plants to animals, or they are just going to eat plants anyway. What do you propose doing with all the animals if everyone were to go vegan? Set them free? Kill them all? They are going to need habitats and food in the former, and the latter goes against the ideal that was presented.