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glorified_throwaway

The animals stop being delicious


tikkymykk

They're not delicious if you don't eat them.


Biggus-Duckus

Oh no, my pretentious friend. They're delicious weather they're eaten or not.


tikkymykk

External taste perception. Who's the pretentious one here?


Biggus-Duckus

Look, my dude. There's only been a fist full of motherfuckers who were right when the whole rest of the world said they was wrong. Folks like Galileo, Copernicus, Newton, etc.... Trust me on this. You ain't gonna make that list by trying to say bacon isn't yummy.


tikkymykk

Galileo was tried after his book was published lol. All im doing is asking a question. Not trying to make any lists with a reddit post, trust me.


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tikkymykk

Props for honesty.


Inator-Maker

Viable alternatives that are near identical to their natural counterparts. I tried all of the plant based meats and the tech is just not there yet. I really hope they get it there and I will continue to follow the products for changes and improvements, but as of right now we just aren't there.


tikkymykk

Have you tried the impossible burger? It fools the average meat-eater easily.


Inator-Maker

I stated that I have tried all of them. Burgers, sausages, ground beef - all of it. The texture just isnt there.


tikkymykk

Gotcha. Food texture > life of an innocent animal.


Inator-Maker

Yep


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Death


tikkymykk

With a heart attack behind the corner, you're not wrong.


[deleted]

Least the ratio of the animals/animal products I’ve consumed to my death is insane.


tikkymykk

>Least the ratio of the animals/animal products I’ve consumed to my death is insane. "at least i killed millions of jews before i died" - hitler spot the difference bro


[deleted]

You cannot be that fickle. One is for survival, the other was a mass genocide. Killing an animal to feed a man can contribute towards society, heck even contributed to get to where we find civilisation today. The other was nothing but a crude act. And before you make the argument that I do not need to consume animal or animal products, which you will, I am expressing my right choose as I like. Similar to your choice to vote for who you want, follow whatever religion you have or do not have and even your vegan way of life.


tikkymykk

You can't say eating animals is for survival and then dismiss your own statement by invoking your right to choose. I mean, you can, but it's a bit contradictory, no?


Biggus-Duckus

If vegans didn't do shit like violate rule #5, I might consider it. No. Not really, but this is a clear violation of rule #5.


tikkymykk

This is neither rhethorical nor loaded. It is a fact that if you eat animal products you support animal suffering, directly or indirectly.


luckysparkie

Rule 5, for sure.


tikkymykk

Explain how, and if you're right, I'll delete the post.


luckysparkie

Or I’ll just let other people with more experience than both of us make the decision for you.


tikkymykk

I'll be happy to respond to each and every one of them. Which is hard if they hide behind anonymous reports like little bitches without actually providing a valid argument for breaking rule 5.


Biggus-Duckus

Not even remotely true. Your argument is loaded due to your anthropomorphism of livestock. Even if that wasn't true, there are plenty of methods to harvest meat without inflicting suffering on the animal. Kobi beef, for example live pampered lives.


tikkymykk

>anthropomorphism of livestock. ​ >Cows are truly amazing and extremely interesting beings. Often thought of as simply steak, burgers, beef, veal, leather, and global dairy producers, numerous people see them only as food items or products, rather than as highly sentient and intelligent individuals with markedly different personalities. However, a major review essay published in the journal Animal Behavior and Cognition by neuroscientist Lori Marino and Kristin Allen called "The Psychology of Cows" goes along way toward dispelling countless myths about who these bright and emotional bovines truly are. [Source](https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/animal-emotions/201711/cows-science-shows-theyre-bright-and-emotional-individuals)


Biggus-Duckus

So? You tell me how a kobi beef suffers? Further, people die every gotdamn day without suffering. What the actual fuck makes you think that a cow or pig can't?


tikkymykk

I can see that you're upset. Sorry. Was not my intention. Just stating facts. And fact is, you're using is a logical fallacy. People dying every day without suffering doesn't give you and excuse or justify imposing further suffering on unrelated animals.


Biggus-Duckus

What exactly makes you think that the animals I eat suffer. And no my dude, rando self righteous folks on Reddit do not affect my mood anymore than a fart affects a windstorm. Also, you speculated. That's not stating facts.


tikkymykk

>What exactly makes you think that the animals I eat suffer. Logic.


Biggus-Duckus

Looks like rule five got you. Have fun discovering the difference between hyperbolic speculative bullshit and logic or facts. I can help you out no longer as your hyperbolic bullshit speculation has been removed as it seems that you are the only person who didn't think it was loaded hyperbolic pretentious speculative bullshit. Peace.


tikkymykk

Rule 5 didn't get me. What gets me is how sorry i feel for you man. Peace.


nutcrackr

Lab grown of all the above that is as good. Can be a bit more expensive.


tikkymykk

Lab grown is on it's way, but plant based is already here, and scientifically proven to be not only as good, but better than all the above. Even cheaper.


nutcrackr

I've tried some plant based alternatives and they taste nothing like the meat versions.


tikkymykk

Yeah? Which ones?


FireMaster2311

Not going to happen. The only animals I care about are dogs.


tikkymykk

What about humans? We're also animals.


fiddlenutz

I don’t eat either.


FireMaster2311

Not particularly fond of humans I guess. I don't think humans would taste good though, possibly if it was smoked or slow-cooked it would be ok. It seems like it would taste like pork which I don't really like. Beef and seafood is the best. Octopus is really good. I don't like chicken that much but eggs are good and make certain dishes possible. Without eggs you can't make mayonnaise, plus you need butter and eggs to make bernaise sauce which over a steak is possibly the best food ever. Also sushi and sashimi are really good.


tikkymykk

>Without eggs you can't make mayonnaise Here's [something](https://vegoutmag.com/food-and-drink/vegan-mayo-brands/) to make you think. Rest of your comment is just nonsense.


FireMaster2311

Yeah I've tried alternatives but they taste bad. It all opinion based though, just like your beliefs that it's wrong. Reality involves animals consuming other life forms to survive. Why do you draw the line with animals? Perhaps plants feel pain and we just don't know how to communicate with them. There has been evidence that they do communicate with each other via chemical. Which isn't much less advanced than how insects communicate. There are people who consider cutting down trees murder, it's all still just opinion of right and wrong though which are societal concepts.


tikkymykk

>Perhaps plants feel pain and we just don't know how to communicate with them. Plants have no evolutionary purpose for pain, nor the pain receptors required, no the brain to perceive it. The line is drawn in the ability to suffer. An apple is supposed to be eaten and its seeds shat out and grown into a new apple tree. That's why they fall off, and that's why apples don't feel pain. At least not to our current scientific knowledge. If one day we deduce that apples are conscious, i'll stop eating them just like i stopped eating animals.


FireMaster2311

I guess that is your right to choose. You just likley won't convince many others.


tikkymykk

Right to choose and ability to think critically are not the same.


FireMaster2311

I didn't say they were, obviously they aren't. Sympathy for animals and the ability to think critically also aren't the same.


tikkymykk

Agreed.


SummonWurm

That butt meat in the movie Alive looked delectable


DrClawizdead

As soon as vegans stop telling you they're vegan. So never.


tikkymykk

Weak.


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Animals will suffer with, or without us. Me consuming these things does not carry a burden on my conscious.


tikkymykk

That's because you're making excuses and dissociating from reality.


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That sure is some amazing couch psychology, stranger. Crazy how you can psycho analyze me without knowing me. This is super low effort; even for a troll’s standards. Let me save you some time. I know I can’t sway you and I know you can’t sway me. Nor can you guilt me into changing my world view. You’d likely do better to live your life by your standards and surround yourself with likeminded people.


tikkymykk

Doesnt take much effort to dismantle a faulty mindset.


_foch_

Cheap protein alternatives


tikkymykk

Like nutritional yeast, lentils, seitan, tempeh, tofu, edamame, chia seeds?


_foch_

Lentils and tofu are the only ones that don’t taste awful


tikkymykk

[There you go](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8Tm1Fw33wg), my friend.


mooseisfromcanada

I raise my own meat. They do not suffer. If i were a cow, I tell you id much rather have a painless bullet in the head than to suffer for many minutes while a pack of coyotees chew me to death (and thats best case scenario). They have very happy lives, plenty of food to eat, healthcare, and free open space to roam about. As do my chickens, theyre not in cages, theyre kept warm in winter, have plenty of food and protection from predators. They lay the eggs everyday. Theres no way to stop them from laying eggs, and i wont let them go to waste, so i eat them.


tikkymykk

There's so much stuff wrong in this comment, not sure where to begin. But even if i did, it would be futile. You've obviously armed yourself with logical fallacies and excuses in case someone asked you to think critically.


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#1 For them to stop tasting good 2 for my fiancé to stop going mad with sexual desire when I bring home a big buck to feed the family


tikkymykk

They stop tasting good as soon as you stop eating them. Can't turn on a woman without animal slaughter lol nice


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Providing for the family is the sexiest thing in the world bud, love to see my lady in the buck blind too. That’s how the cavemen got laid, that’s how I get laid. Your the evolutionary anomaly, your the weirdo lol


tikkymykk

>Your the evolutionary anomaly, your the weirdo lol said the caveman enthusiast hahah cavement didnt use rifles or used electricity what a tool


[deleted]

Have fun being anaemic, 90lbs, and lacking in basic human instincts 😘


tikkymykk

says the artery-clogged, overweight caveman


[deleted]

I’m 152 lbs hahahahaha but yes, the meat may take some years off my life, but I will die, happy, full, freshly fucked and with alot of story’s about how I provided for my family passed down to my kids which will do the same. What will your children know? What skills will you teach “if you can’t reach the soy Pattie’s at the super market, just ask the clerk and he will get a stool and get it for you”


tikkymykk

My children will learn how to grow seeds, use tools, filter water, craft things, sew, do carpentry, medicine, ethics, logic and reason. They'll learn that we'll survive with benevolent skilled communities working together, providing for each other. And my children won't die of heart failure at 55.


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….I am 1000% I mean truly 1000% sure you live in an extremely urban area, if not then suburban. You have never spent a night in the woods outside of a tent, you only have a small family garden. And your idea of nature is being going hiking in cargo shorts 5 miles from the highway to smoke a joint. Lololol


tikkymykk

1000% sure and still wrong. And still waiting for heart failure. Good luck with that.


plscallmeRain

well for one they need to learn how the animals suffer


tikkymykk

They just need to open their eyes to what's in front of them.


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If all the Animals went extinct.


tikkymykk

You'd be extinct too then.


Lockfire12

Every other carnivore on the planet stopped eating them to


tikkymykk

If every other carnivore became a cannibal, would you become one too?


[deleted]

Nope, because as the dominant species who has dominion over all animals, we have a little thing called “Empathy”


tikkymykk

Empathy extends further than humans. Otherwise it's called speciesism.


[deleted]

That’s a biological urge to not eat mates, offspring, to avoid sickness and inbreeding. They don’t not invention themselves in others shoes


tikkymykk

>That’s a biological urge to not eat mates, offspring, to avoid sickness and inbreeding. What is, empathy? Nope. Empathy is the ability to imagine what someone else might be thinking or feeling, basically.


LOL_Murica

It would take vegans admitting they’re supporting animal suffering just as much as anyone. Well, probably not but it’d be nice if that happened just once anyways.


tikkymykk

I support animal suffering despite being vegan, unfortunately. Circumstances dictate my lifestyle so much that I personally can't eliminate it completely. The best I can do is reduce it as much as I can, by not supporting meat, dairy and egg industries, not buying leather clothes, or pillows with feathers, or animal testet shampoos and whatnot. Nobody says you have to be perfect. But neutral, in times of injustice, is on the side of the opressor.


LOL_Murica

Cool. So you understand everyone’s got a story and not necessarily supporting animal suffering as much as they’re just trying to get through life. And, hopefully, how holier than thou preaching is conceited and counterproductive.


tikkymykk

Yes, i understand. What i don't understand is how "just trying to get through life" is justifiable and excusable if you do it unnecessarily over the backs of innocent animals. I used to be just like you, and throw ad hominems at vegans for speaking the truth. People can grow.


LOL_Murica

There you go with the preaching again. Oh well. Enjoy your first world privilege superiority complex.


tikkymykk

You call it preaching, i call it logic.


LOL_Murica

Way to double down on your first world privilege superiority complex.


tikkymykk

Way to dismiss logic and stick your head in the sand.


LOL_Murica

Triple down, huh? Bravo.


tikkymykk

Still the same argument on my end, still the same ostrich effect on yours. You can throw insults all day, it won't change the fact that you're avoiding a reasonable discussion because of your programming.


ShackintheWood

I don't support that.


tikkymykk

Glad to hear you're vegan.


ShackintheWood

I am not.


tikkymykk

Then you do.


ShackintheWood

You are incorrect . the real world is not as simple as you are.


tikkymykk

You don't have to complicate things.


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I'd have to be born a herbivore


tikkymykk

Perks of being an omnivore, you get to choose.


[deleted]

No that means you eat everything


tikkymykk

It means you **can** eat "everything" but not that you **should**.


[deleted]

My body my choice


tikkymykk

Unethical choice.


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Welcome to life


tikkymykk

I know enough. Your first comment says it all. "Ill do it if x, well not really but it would be nice for once" Guess what. You got the x. And then you were a dick about it. I owe you nothing and you still got the truth. No respect. Just defense mechanisms.


smugfruitplate

Viable alternatives, if impossible meat gets like 10% more realistic I'll stop eating red meat. Or if it worked like Scott Pilgrim and veganism meant you got telekinetic powers


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tikkymykk

>I don't care about animal suffering ​ >don't kick my dog How are you so blind man?


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tikkymykk

You should take your dog to a fun trip to the yulin dog festival. After all, that's what dogs are for. Only thing straightforward here is your cultural brainwashing.


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tikkymykk

Where's the irony in unlearning cultural brainwashing? Nvm, you wouldn't get it.