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Lol, the dislikes are very telling. If you put personal opinions aside this statement is 100% logical, but people can't help but feel attacked when their hypocrisy is pointed out.
Yes, in a vegan world this would not happen because we wouldn't be raising billions of farm animals, we wouldn't treat them like something you ship in the mail, and no one would be buying 12000 chicks.
But people read this and can't handle the reality that these situations happen because they want (not need) to consume animal products. Not to mention the hypocrisy of caring about these chicks while not caring about the ones being grinded to death every day for them to enjoy eggs and meat.
No. I'm downvoting for other reasons like the comment coming out of the left field and being smug. I absolutely agree with it but bruh, obviously in a utopian world things would be perfect. Pointing out the obvious to explain what could be avoided feels condescending.
100% your reading of it and just confirming the previous comment
could be the shittiest world and we still wouldn't need to eat animals
Well of course it's a reading given the social context and the overall discourse on Lemmy. It does not exist in a vacuum. And that does not confirm any previous comment, what does that even mean. Lol
I'm not arguing that