• ziltoid101@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    2
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    1 year ago

    Nobody is saying that fish are moral agents that can empathise with other beings. That doesn’t man that they’re not moral subjects; the ability to understand that one is causing harm is not a prerequisite for the ability to suffer oneself. I think everyone knows this intuitively, but it does feel good to have our less moral habits be justified by memes that we would otherwise find to be illogical.

  • MiddleWeigh@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    1 year ago

    Something needs to die for you to survive, what and how much is up to your individual tolerance for input/output ratio.

    Death and suffering is a natural state of being in nature. I can reduce it, but I still need to survive.

    I hate fishing. I don’t need to fish in my current station. If I did, I would fish.

    • Zozano@aussie.zone
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      1 year ago

      Exactly. Pretty common misconception about vegan ideology. Vegans don’t think people in developing nations have a moral imperative to change their ways because they don’t have an alternative.

      I don’t need to eat meat, so I don’t.

      • Takatakatakatakatak@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        0
        ·
        1 year ago

        I genuinely wasn’t aware of this. Have never heard that argument made.

        So their position is basically that as soon as you have a sufficiently developed supply chain to buy refrigerated lab-grown or fake meat and get it home before it smells like a rotten protein shake, that’s what you should do? But until that happens, killing animals is ok?

        • door_in_the_face@feddit.nl
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          0
          ·
          1 year ago

          Nah, you don’t necessarily need lab grown or fake meat to have a healthy delicious varied vegan diet. Legumes like chickpeas, different kinds of beans and lentils as well as soy products can provide enough protein and variety if you put some effort into your cooking. You do need B12 supplements on a vegan diet though, as well as some specific nuts and seeds to cover omega 3. So those can be a problem if there’s not a lot of variety in the stores near you and you can’t order it online for whatever reason.

            • door_in_the_face@feddit.nl
              link
              fedilink
              arrow-up
              0
              ·
              edit-2
              1 year ago

              Maybe not necessarily the dairy cow herself, but she needs to be pregnant about once per year so she doesn’t stop producing milk. That means that the calves inevitably need to be slaughtered (as well as older dairy cows) or else the herd would keep growing year after year.

            • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
              link
              fedilink
              arrow-up
              0
              arrow-down
              5
              ·
              1 year ago

              I will happily drink any woman’s milk if she’s offering, but it’s actually extremely weird that y’all steal cow milk.

              • Zozano@aussie.zone
                link
                fedilink
                arrow-up
                2
                ·
                edit-2
                1 year ago

                I think it’s extremely weird that you would happily drink any woman’s milk.

                But it is MUCH less weird than drinking bovine lactate and somatic cells.

        • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          0
          arrow-down
          3
          ·
          1 year ago

          Uh, I only eat fake meat once every few weeks and that’s just for fun. I can live off of beans and rice just fine and it’s literally cheaper than meat lol

  • Rhoeri@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    1 year ago

    I’m not on either side of the argument, but would guess a good argument would be that fish need to eat other fish in order to survive as it’s their only source of food. We don’t. Provenly.

    • nxfsi@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      1 year ago

      A person does not need to eat meat.

      People absolutely do need to eat meat, specifically cooked meat in order to be intelligent. It’s what made cavemen smarter than other animals. Also the recent rise in average height and IQ from good nutrition is in part directly related to cheap meat from factory farming.

        • Gabu@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          0
          ·
          1 year ago

          Except in most cases we can’t. You may be able to, in which case, good job, but meat is much cheaper per quantity and quality of nutrients, not to mention people like me, whose only real source of dietary iron is meat.

            • Gabu@lemmy.world
              link
              fedilink
              arrow-up
              0
              ·
              1 year ago

              1kg of chicken breast meat costs me less than 5 USD and covers multiple days of meals. To get equivalent nutrients out of plants would cost me way more than that.

              • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
                link
                fedilink
                arrow-up
                0
                arrow-down
                4
                ·
                edit-2
                1 year ago

                wtf you can? Where I am chicken breast is USD $11.64 per kg!

                Compare that to beans. Where I live I can get a kg of dried pinto beans for $3.50, and with 67% as much protein per serving as chicken it would cost $5.25 to get the same amount of protein as a kg of chicken breast.

                What’s the price of 1kg of dried beans where you live? That’d be a more apt comparison.

                • Gabu@lemmy.world
                  link
                  fedilink
                  arrow-up
                  0
                  ·
                  1 year ago

                  Depends a lot on brand and quality, but I’d guess the average is somewhat close to yours, at $3.00 US. Beans are a major source of protein for most people, where I live. Doesn’t help me, though - I don’t much mind the flavor, but they make me incredibly nauseous.

  • tweeks@feddit.nl
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    1 year ago

    As far as value goes, I don’t particularly value my own life or that of a fish. I do value the suffering of both while living though, as in I want to minimise that as much as possible.

  • debil@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    1 year ago

    sigh Came from reddit to lemmy, still see stupid af carnist memes like this. Don’t know if it’s a win or what for the fediverse

  • BachenBenno@feddit.de
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    1 year ago

    The difference is that the fish needs to eat the other fish. We don’t need ANY animal products. So every killed animal suffered and lost their life for 10min of taste for us that we didn’t need. Being vegan is so easy in 2023.

      • agoseris@lemm.ee
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        0
        ·
        1 year ago

        There are plenty of plant sources of Omega 3. Flax seeds, walnuts, soybeans, and canola oil all have decent amounts of omega 3 in them. As for protein, legumes generally have a bunch.

        Really, the only thing a vegan needs to supplement is B12, but even that gets added to a bunch of stuff like breakfast cereals and plant milks if you consume those.

          • Resonosity@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            0
            ·
            1 year ago

            You can make your own plant milk usually by soaking/boiling nuts/seeds in water and then blending that together. Some people use juicers for this, and then some people run the blended liquid through a filter to remove any bits. Cashew milk is lovely if homemade!

      • Azathoth@feddit.de
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        0
        ·
        1 year ago

        You can take them as supplements. It’s the same for your body. Oh and you are already doing that, because they give supplements to the animals they raise and kill, we are just eliminating the middleman.