• Deacon@lemmy.world
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    1 hour ago

    Veganism is my unattended moral compromise. I am positive that future generations will look at us and our factory farming and, aghast, see us as the monsters as we are - much like we look back at slaveowners, even those who were against the institution at the time.

    Since I am not living in or near the wild and not hunting for my own food, it is clear to me that veganism is the only real moral choice, and yet I still participate.

    I am complicit in this delightful supreme pizza and complicit in this breaded chicken sandwich.

    • AlexLost@lemmy.world
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      16 minutes ago

      Factory farming is the problem, not animal husbandry. If the whole world went vegan, do you think the vegetables we eat would not be altered to better serve yield rather than quality? Do you think pesticides would not be used in staggering levels? Do you think vegetables aren’t alive so it’s okay to eat them? If it doesn’t have a face, it’s cool to eat? Life is sustained by consuming other life, the world over. I agree that industrial farming is disgusting and cruel, but not just to animals.

    • yermaw@sh.itjust.works
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      16 minutes ago

      I feel your shame friend. We have so little opportunity to do the right thing, and we still fail.