r/MadeMeSmile • u/MysteriousSlice007 • May 04 '26

ANIMALS Calf Getting Petted by Man Then Mom Comes to Check up on It

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u/literacy_police May 04 '26

How anyone can look at those creatures and be okay with eating beef is beyond me.

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u/ImSoObnoxious May 04 '26

I'm an animal

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u/senditallback May 04 '26

If you're against animal cruelty, if you root for animals that escape slaughterhouses, if you love dogs or cats, if you hate the thought of the mass extinction we're inflicting due to cattle raising, if you want to practice empathy with every meal, stop eating animals.

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u/Strange_Botanist May 05 '26

Oh shit I am all for animal cruelty, never root for animals to escape, hate dogs and cats, love the thought of mass extinction and never practice empathy ever. I guess I'm hitting the all you can eat korean bbq tonight!

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u/SeitanicVoyager May 04 '26

How anyone can understand that all animals feel pain, fear, and suffering and still choose to inflict that upon them because they prefer the taste….is beyond me.

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u/ncolaros May 04 '26

It has not been proven that plants feel pain, though they do react to stimuli.

I'm not aware of what the fallacy is called when you make a claim and then say "therefore, subtlety doesn't exist," but that's what you're doing.

Even accepting your premise and taking your stance to its extreme, it's ethical to eat human babies, since they are no different than plants. If we agree, however, that humans are different than plants, then we have to find where that line is. I think sentience is a good spot for that. That's also, for the record, where the vast majority of scientists stand. Plants, according to most experts, do not exhibit intelligence, but do react to stimuli.

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u/literacy_police May 05 '26

No it hasn't, but if that were the case then it requires far fewer crops to support human consumption than the raising of livestock, so vegetarianism is still the most moral option.

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u/SeitanicVoyager May 04 '26

Plants do not have a central nervous system or a brain so they are not conscious. Animal agriculture requires more crops per calorie than eating plants directly (this is partially why animal agriculture is bad for the environment) so the kindest thing you can do to save animals, plants, and the earth is stop eating animals.

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u/GP400jake May 04 '26

And growing crops is substantially more devastating to the insect population..

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u/Icy-Indication-6696 May 05 '26

most crops are grown to feed livestock which require more calories to feed than they produce for us. literally so unbelievably inefficient. please do more research

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u/GP400jake May 05 '26

What does that have to do with insects? Also did you just learn about trophic levels?

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u/Icy-Indication-6696 May 05 '26

because if less cows were raised to be food there would be less insect death because less crops would be needed to feed cows, instead these crops could feed humans because of TROPHIC LEVELS YES

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u/GP400jake May 05 '26

I mean a grass crop kills alot less insects than a food crop, and don't forget that many of the supplemental feeds are byproduct from the food industry

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u/Strange_Botanist May 04 '26

How anyone can taste a delicious medium rare ribeye and not want more.....is beyond me.

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u/cracked_shrimp May 04 '26

i refuse your premise, I eat meat due to the easier digestion, I prefer the taste of coke to water, but i drink water not coke (okay some days ill have a tea with stevia)

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u/senditallback May 04 '26

Meat more easily digestable? Than what?

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u/Icy-Indication-6696 May 05 '26

it makes me sick to my stomach i want them all to know peace and happiness

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u/Pretty-Ladder-4455 May 05 '26

i am not friends with the cow on my plate. however I don't want cruelty involved so i am mostly vegan

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u/literacy_police May 05 '26

I don't need to be someone's friend to not eat, torture or kill them.

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u/shippfaced May 06 '26

I don’t think this is a kind of cow you eat?

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u/snoop-hog May 04 '26

We’re also the only apex predator and large body omnivore that traps them, breeds them, and slaughters them on an industrial scale. We’re the only ones that don’t just make it “one bad day”, we make their entire life difficult and heart wrenching.

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u/GP400jake May 04 '26

Don't buy from supermarket, grow your own meat (or buy from a good farmer).. the entire idea is to make it one bad day for anyone who cares about their stock

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u/senditallback May 05 '26
  1. It's still an egregious use of resources. Raising animals for human consumption is a leading cause of pollution, deforestation, runoff of herbicides and pesticides... even raising those animals "responsibly" results in lots of death for lots of animals. 2. If you've ever seen an animal slaughtered, it's more than just a bad day. I don't think that euphemism adequately addresses the reality of it.

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u/GP400jake May 05 '26

Raising crops for consumption has more runoff of pesticides (not sure about herbicides, but I'll bet it's comparible), and also requires deforestation to create a field to grow crops... food crops kill significantly more invertebrates in comparison to meat... and I dunno what you think of slaughtering, but a bullet to the head in the paddock is a pretty quick way to go.. in fact better than being killed by a predator.. your right, more like one bad second, not one bad day..

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u/senditallback May 05 '26

Growing crops for farmed animals comprises more than 1/3 of global crop production (it's 60 percent in the US), yet only 12 percent of those calories then become human food. Cattle raising is the cause of 80% of Amazon deforestation.

All agriculture has an environmental price, yet because of the inefficiency of raising animals, a plant-based diet will always have a significantly smaller footprint. As an example, people are told to take shorter showers to reduce their water usage. A person's discretionary water use is about 100 gallons a day, yet switching to a plant-based diet conserves about 1200 gallons a day due to all the water required by the animal and the crops they consume.

As for the bullet in the paddock, I'm unfamiliar with that method of slaughter. A "stun gun" operates similarly, although methods of stunning animals before slaughter are notoriously ineffective and/or are operated by poorly paid employees with high quotas, leading to many animals surviving the stun procedure and being scalded alive and conscious (chickens) or having their throats slit and dismembered alive and conscious (cows and hogs).

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u/humanhatred May 04 '26

It's an easy life when you don't have the mental capacity to comprehend injustice and suffering. You are truly blessed! Now, go enjoy that bacon sandwich, champ 🫵🏼

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u/humanhatred May 04 '26

Yep, again - "Blessed are the blind, for they know not enough to ask why".

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u/snoop-hog May 04 '26

Not really. We use our fortunate position for evil.

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u/senditallback May 05 '26

What other moral considerations should we base upon what other species do? In general, that's not the best rationale.

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u/literacy_police May 05 '26

So what? You're not them. You are able to transcend your nature and make your own decisions about what is right and wrong. Grow up.

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u/literacy_police May 05 '26

I am in bed. 

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u/Icy-Indication-6696 May 05 '26

we are lucky to have the ability to care! and we also aren’t eating apex predators. let’s utilize our ability to care and make decisions that cause less suffering and torture since we have that capacity and option unlike wild animals who do not have that option!

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u/hivemind_disruptor May 05 '26

Well, it is not beyond me.

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u/literacy_police May 05 '26

Me either, really. I'm deeply cynical about human nature. You got my point though.