• commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      4 months ago

      practicing cruelty is bad, but animal agriculture is not cruelty in and of itself. if a particular operation is acting cruelly, they should be admonished.

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        4 months ago

        animal agriculture is not cruelty in and of itself. if a particular operation is acting cruelly, they should be admonished.

        I would argue that animal agriculture is cruelty in and of itself. It’s forcing animals into small cages, forcibly impregnating them, stealing their babies, cutting off their tails, and then painfully murdering them. It’s a cruel operation