Seen a lot of posts on Lemmy with vegan-adjacent sentiments but the comments are typically very critical of vegan ideas, even when they don’t come from vegans themselves. Why is this topic in particular so polarising on the internet? Especially since unlike politics for example, it seems like people don’t really get upset by it IRL

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    6 months ago

    Treatment of animals is very much a part of the moral issue. Causing suffering is clearly a moral issue. Also there are the environmental impacts to consider.

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      6 months ago

      And again . That varies quite a lot depending on where the meat comes from.

      To do what you do and just drag a giant blanket over everything is incredibly ignorant.

      And I’m just really over the incredible hypocrisy. Eating meat is wrong cause an animal suffered, but wearing clothes made in a Vietnamese,chineese or Bangladesh sweatshop is ok. Because that only includes human suffering and slave like conditions.

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        6 months ago

        It varies yes, but it doesn’t change the fact that there is more animal suffering and environmental damage getting protein from animal sources than plants. Also talking about ssweatshops is changing the topic and moving the goalposts as you did previously with eggs. That’s not a good faith discussion

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          Depends on who is farming the plants don’t you think? Not like there hasn’t been scandals about exploitation of workers in agriculture.

          Not to mention environmental damage from over fertilizing and pesticides, and dumping of waste.

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              6 months ago

              meals offered in the lunch service at an institutional food service establishment in London, UK over their whole life cycles.

              Maybe you should actually read the studies you link.

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                6 months ago

                There’s 100s like it if you actually care. Also I don’t see why that matters

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                  6 months ago

                  Also I don’t see why that matters

                  Yeah, that’s the problem. You can’t even bother to read and understand the studies you link. You see the title and thinks “ah yes, that agrees with my agenda”

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                    No. I read the fucking study. Your objection doesn’t alter the results. And it’s not like there isn’t a tonne of information about this topic. You are choosing to ignore the science by quibbling about an irrelevant detail in one study