Re:Wild orangutan seen healing his wound with a plant
by vbezhenar on Friday May 03, 2024 @02:26AM
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What? We eat meat. We need to eat meat. So we need to kill animals for that. Zoos absolutely not required for humans to survive.
Re:Wild orangutan seen healing his wound with a plant
by xvector on Friday May 03, 2024 @03:22AM
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> We eat meat.
Purely for taste.
> We need to eat meat.
False. 10-20% of the world population does not and we're just fine.
> So we need to kill animals for that.
No, we want to kill animals because we want tasty food. Not because we "need" meat. No one living in an industrialized country does. It's trivial to create a plant-based balanced diet (and a tasty one at that.)
> Zoos absolutely not required for humans to survive.
Neither are factory farms. They exist to satisfy "taste buds go brr." But that is not worth literally torturing[1] an animal to death.
Re:Wild orangutan seen healing his wound with a plant
by makerdiety on Friday May 03, 2024 @08:41AM
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Taste is an indicator of goodness. Therefore, good taste means high goodness.
Re:Wild orangutan seen healing his wound with a plant
by mikrotikker on Friday May 03, 2024 @06:12AM
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Not to mention the many millions of horses killed in wars
It's objectively the greatest evil humans have ever committed, and for our own pleasure at that. We inflict pure hellish suffering because "tAsTe bUdS gO BRRR!"
It's hard to even comprehend something more comically, absurdly evil, both in terms of motive and sheer scale of suffering.
At least zoos do trigger an empathy response and get people to care about animals more.