• madcaesar@lemmy.world
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        7 days ago

        What is natural? There’s animals that dig into other animals brains and eat them slowly. There’s animals that paralyze their victims and eat them slowly. There’s parasites that infect their host and force them to get eaten by controlling them and removing their fear center. There’s animals that eat their own young. There animals that only eat the young of others.

        This notion that nature isn’t cruel and unforgiving is just a fairytale.

        The amazing thing about humans is that we can actually feel compassion for others, even other species and strive to reduce their suffering as much as possible. I’m really getting tired of people being so negative all the damn time.

        Our food production needs to do better and be better but it will only do so because of us, not because we “listen to nature” or whether else people love to spew out trying to sound enlightened.

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          7 days ago

          I was directly responding to the previous commenter saying that it’s natural to hunt and eat. Our current system of industrial farming of animals is inhumane for both animals and farmers. Nature might be unforgiving and metal, but we have brought the unnecessary torture of sentient animals to unholy levels.

          That’s what I meant with my comment.

          • I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world
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            7 days ago

            Plenty of animals kill just for fun and will torture their prey for hours. And just because something is inhumane, doesn’t make it unnatural. If anything, it’s humane practices that are unnatural.

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              No other species has built killing factories that torture and kill billions of animals per day. It’s not even comparable.

              I use the word “humane” in the sense of “you would mot subject humans to it”.

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                  6 days ago

                  Oh, right, how could I forget the factory farms that ants build where they pack thousands of aphyds in tiny cubicles where they can’t even move, feed them unhealthy diets to make them grow at unhealthy speeds to the point their bones break, and then finally kill the for meat. /s

                  Nothing else in nature compares to our animal torture industry.

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                    6 days ago

                    My brother in Christ you know nothing of the ant wars.

                    Neither of the chimpanzee wars

                    Learn a bit, it won’t kill you