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How is ita false equivalence to say that animal rights matter? Do sentient beings deserve to be eaten by us, simply because we have consciously decided that we want to be at the top of the food chain? Should you continue to have the highest emissions from your diet, simply because you're "at the top" of some hypothetical food chain you have no part in executing yourself?
I get that some people need to eat animal products for health reasons, but if your entire reason is "I am an apex predator" (which you're not, btw), then I don't see why you shouldn't be called out for that mentality, which is promoting a view of the world that is pretty exploitative of other living beings and environmentally damaging to boot.
Life eats life and I do not have the emotional fortitude to let that get to me. The other animals are out there eating each other alive, it's a horror show, and the expectation for humans to somehow be above and separate from nature is, imo, unrealistic.
Noone deserves to be eaten but if an animal is hungry they have every right to try and eat me and I have the right to defend myself.
Animals also go to war and humans have gone to war for all of their history. That doesn't mean that we shouldn't strive for pacifism because that's separating us from nature.
YOU DON'T HAVE TO. YOU DON'T HAVE TO EAT ANIMALS. You are CHOOSING to. And you are using the fact that other animals HAVE TO EAT OTHER ANIMALS to justify it. You're not going to feel bad about your UNNECESSARY cruelty and violence simply because cruelty and violence exist in the universe? That's fucking stupid, you see that, right? Your rationalizations are transparent and the lies you tell yourself are not convincing to others!
All of the violence and cruelty that exists in the universe is unnecessary, not just mine. The universe is unnecessary, for that matter. If I decided to focus on that, I could only conclude that total annihilation is the answer to suffering and I'd rather eat chicken. It's a choice, not a lie.
That's a very 14 year old understanding of nihilism.
I dare you to show your genuinely asinine comment to someone you respect. This is exactly the transparent rationalization I'm describing directly to your benighted face.
You wouldn't even be capable of staring at your own navel this hard if your ancestors hadn't taken to eating our furry neighbors. And you have no idea the emissions caused by my diet, but since I hunt the majority of my meat I'm actually reducing the emissions of local deer herds and hog sounders in my area. I do not participate in beef farming at all, but mostly because I find it to be boring of flavor and overly expensive, not out of any moral obligation.
I am not an apex predator? Sure, I'm an omnivore. Now, however, if I am not at the top of the chain, how about you tell me what might be hunting me?