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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 23 hours ago (5 children)

Lmao the slurs you make up are so cute

Nobody defends factory farms they're universally hated

[–] [email protected] 9 points 19 hours ago

Nobody defends factory farms they’re universally hated

But not enough for people to boycott, other than a single-digit % of the population.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Can you explain how that is a slur? Who is being unfairly oppressed/please describe the victim of the slur?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

If you are describing omnivores as "carnies" then that would be a slur since most people consider people on the carnivore diet to be unhinged or misinformed.

Slurs exist to denigrate and diminish ones character.

Without argument, more vegetarians will help the world, but I don't think name calling wins hearts and minds.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

you seem misinformed, 'carnist' and by extension 'carnie' has nothing to do with the carnivore diet, but with carnism:

Carnism is a concept used in discussions of humanity's relation to other animals, defined as a prevailing ideology in which people support the use and consumption of animal products, especially meat.[1] Carnism is presented as a dominant belief system supported by a variety of defense mechanisms and mostly unchallenged assumptions.[1][2][3][4]

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 hours ago

The term carnism was coined by social psychologist and author Melanie Joy in 2001

I have been hearing this term used to demean meat eaters since the late 80s. I guess they were all misinformed too.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Have you heard of the carnivore movement? There are genuinely people saying to stop eating vegetables. It's probably mostly ragebait, but it exists.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

Have you heard of the carnivore movement?

Apart from the 1 guy here on lemmy running his solo community ... I never have.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 19 hours ago

It feels like user wasn't talking about specifically people on the carnivore diet. It came off as a slur against people on the most common diet on earth.