@pipeshotgun They're tokenizing minorities and paying lip service to a diet that causes so much more harm than a global vegan diet ever would to poc and indigenous people
@diz__zee If all kinds of eating food were equal, then cannibalism would be equivalent in moral worth to eating ramen noodles. Please, use your brain. It's there for a reason.
Discourse around this post:
1. Fundamental misunderstandings about AI
2. Racist tokenization of minorities to perpetuate a privileged diet
3. The assumption that meat is necessary to live and that it is a neutral kind of diet rather than one that requires unnecessary suffrring
@Docorw@SWANDIVE2004 I told you that veganism acknowledges the cultural importance of meat in the first sentence. It just doesn't think that mattering to a group of people carries more moral worth than the harm caused to these billions of animals and trillions of fish per year.
@okNo54002277 This is a very good point and it's similar to a religious argument I've made for veganism. If the garden of Eden was god's perfect world, and we didn't eat animals there, should we not actively strive to avoid eating animals in our fallen state as well? The excuses people give...