• OneOrTheOtherDontAskMe@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Or, you know, regulate it for safety like any other industry.

    If you’re paying for ANY clothing you didn’t make yourself, you’re paying and driving demand for underage laborers in impoverished countries to make your stuff.

    If you’re using the internet, that costs electricity and that’s (on average) produced by fossil fuels at power generators, spurring on demand for further pollution and destruction of our planet.

    The above are examples of silly arguments, but do you see how you might have propped up an unrelated point about veganism/vegetarianism during a story about a dead teenager?

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        8 months ago

        You just going to sidestep the other points above that talk about exploitation of children and the planet or do you just want to talk about cattle? Because if cattle is more important than those things, please let me know so I can write this off as a conversation not worth having.

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          8 months ago

          you said yourself that they were silly, and I wholeheartedly agree.
          but the whole “there’s no ethical consumption under capitalism, so we might as well violate all the rights we can!” isn’t it.

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        8 months ago

        If properly maintained and running at a reasonable pace, the disnemberment factory is actually a pretty safe place to work.