• hoppeduponcoffee@lemmy.zip
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    1 day ago

    Well if we’re going to exploit animals’ bodies by the billions for the pleasure of humans, we might as well throw horses in the mix too, right? While we’re at it, why not cats and dogs?

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      Puppy mills exist. Oddly haven’t heard of cat mills but could be a thing I guess.

      In order to provide fish for people to eat, there’s a thing called bycatch, which is catching things you don’t intend to catch. If there’s a cute underwater animal you like, chances are we murder many of them as bycatch.

      What else is there, let’s see. Male egg laying chickens are born and then immediately blended alive, that’s so we can have eggs on our shelves at the price they are. Dairy cows aren’t immediately killed but have horrible short lives and are then killed for lack of milk production. That meat is poor quality so we feed it to our pets.

      This doesn’t sound like a new thing to me, just more of the same cruelty for profits sake.