>>40996741>please tell us more about why it's insane and immoral though, we're all dying to hear your thoughts.Veganism picks and chooses which life is considered valuable and which isn't. According to vegans anything that exploits an animal is immoral, yet there is absolutely nothing wrong with consuming vegetables. This inherently creates a schism where animal life is deemed sacred while plant life isn't. What then makes animal life sacred? Is it their capacity for pain? For a long time people considered fish to be fine to kill because they believed fish didn't feel pain, simply because they didn't provide the same obvious reactions that animals do. A plant may not cry out in pain when you pluck a leaf from it; does that mean we cannot see sap as analogous to the blood from a wound? Does a plant's wilting after sufficient injury not constitute a loss of life?
At what point does the separation between animal and plant life justify the destruction of that life to serve as produce for human consumption? When an intelligence theshold is reached? Certainly some plants are more intelligent than others; in design of how they grow and seek out nutrients and flourish. (Fungi especially blur the line of intelligence in flora:
https://psyche.co/ideas/the-fungal-mind-on-the-evidence-for-mushroom-intelligence )
Do we determine it by the capacity to feel pain? Then what if animals were altered to no longer feel pain from being killed? Would it suddenly make it ok? (Never mind that the first world generally engages in painless killing methods at abattoirs regardless; though this has been set back decades by the increased prevalance of halal savagery.)
There is a degree of arrogance in veganism in declaring that one form of life is more deserving of protection than another, in deciding what elements we should empathise with and in what traits a living being should have for us to pick and choose whether we utilise it for our own means or not. At least when I eat a burger I'm not pretending the cow was more worthy of life than the lettuce plant.
