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Originally Posted by Spuds
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.
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Again, equate implies equal or the same, which is different than suggesting there is intellectual consistency. If people wouldn't eat a dog or treat a dog like a pig or chicken in a factory farm because of moral reasons then don't treat a pig or chicken like the video I posted where they are being tortured. You seem to have a very low perspective of animal intelligence. Could you not tell the difference between an abused dog and a happy dog? Do you really think a pig, cow or chicken is incapable of pain and suffering?
Again, it is clear you didn't watch the video because you continue to regurgitate arguments that were discussed in the video. Like he mentions, the move to veganism isn't going to happen overnight, so as demand decreases, production of livestock decreases, so there won't be a need to suddenly release all the animals like you describe.