A Delaware animal shelter is working to find new homes for thousands of chicks that were left abandoned in a U.S. Postal Service truck for three days.
Delaware’s Department of Agriculture said it received a call earlier this month from USPS saying the Postal Service had an “undeliverable box of baby birds.” About 12,000 chicks had been shipped from the Pennsylvania-based Freedom Ranger Hatchery to farms across the country.
State agricultural officials say that when they found the chicks at a USPS distribution center in Delaware, around 4,000 were dead.
What about all the hundreds of billions of plant-based lifeforms enslaved on factory farms every year before being culled? Why aren’t you concerned about them too?
If you are genuinely interested in the vegan position, I’d happily answer (or you could have used a search engine and gotten millions of answers). Something tells me you’re not being genuine in your motivation.
In short: there is no sentience and thus, no capacity for suffering inside plants as far as we know based on scientific consensus. Animals do have this. Hence why I care about taking a knife to an animals throat and slicing it, and not about chopping a carrot.
Even if you believe for whatever bum fuck spiritualist reason that plants can suffer, you can minimize plant usage by going vegan. Keeping all those farm animals alive requires (plantbased) feed, so cutting out the middle man reduces the number of plants wasted.
no, you can’t. the industry doesn’t change it’s growth due to vegans.
What do you mean? You think there is no supply demand at play in food production?
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vegans have been around since the 1940s, and my guess is there are more now than ever, but the meat industry grows year-over-year every year. being vegan doesn’t decrease the amount of meat dairy or eggs produced. it certainly doesn’t reduce the amount of vegetables grown.
this can’t be proven
Should we, according to you, grant the same amount of ethical consideration to a tomato as to a cat/pig/bird/etc? Do you actually believe there is a sentient being in a plant, or a rock for that matter?
Our best scientific understanding is that a CNS is essential for sentience, and there is no serious evidence support plant sentience. You can play the philospher and argue this, but then technically you can’t prove human sentience outside your own (if that). Should we go kill humans?
Anyway. I see you’re not serious in this conversation and are just trolling. Have a good one.
this is an ad hominem and a thought terminating cliche. what i’m saying is true. your fallacious rhetoric doesn’t change that.
i think what you mean is that sentience has only been substantiated in organisms with a cns.
i never said that. what i said is that you can’t prove there isn’t.
i don’t know what you mean by ethical consideration.