Artificial insemination is rape. It involves non-consensual penetration of another animal. It can happen by a bull, by a human, or by any other animal (or alien for that matter). Makes no difference for the animal that is on the receiving end.
Your idea of nuance quite conveniently means that the moral caution you afford to humans isn't afforded to animals, which is anthropocentrist and egocentric. If ever in the future you call yourself empathetic, know that you absolutely aren't.
Not so in various parts of the world, which goes to show that humans play fast and loose with rights and morality.
You wanting to uphold those values anyway tells me that you wish for all humans to be treated the same: with dignity and respect. That same belief underpins my desire for animals to have the same, despite many places in the world completely foregoing their rights.
It's a shame that your anthropocentrism doesn't afford empathy for non-human animals
Are you actually comparing climate change to animal abuse? Lol
Holy SHIT the reading comprehension in this thread is subzero. I wasn't COMPARING.
I was saying that HUMANS will ignore the reality in front of them if it means they can uphold their materialistic desires and wants. HUMANS will ignore climate change, genocide, animal abuse and slaughter, homelessness, whatever you want to put here. Many Western countries into today's age are individualistic and selfish.
Does the door bleed when you do that? Does it cry out in fear of rape, or of sadness of losing its child right after birth?
No, I'm not going to change my messaging. There are many other vegans both on Lemmy, on social media, and IRL that probably have different messaging than me in this one instance. Hell, I probably will have different messaging from post to post and conversation to conversation.
But in my opinion, this conversation violates my beliefs so much that I need to retaliate.
If you have something you care about, let me see how you react. "The live streamed Holocaust in Gaza right now isn't bad because the Palestinians want this". I'm not sure if you're for or against Palestinian resistance, but if you take the thinking in this thread and apply it elsewhere, it's fucking psychotic.
You cite data. What's your data that proves that singular attack vectors at persuading populations works best, compared to multiple vectors?
And what common sense? Eating meat, and using animals in general for our purposes, is serving as one of the largest contributors to climate change, to water overuse, to nitrogen and fertilizer runoff that kills ocean life, to heart disease (red meat specifically), and to cancer (UN classifies red meat as a carcinogen).
Seems to me that your "common sense" is willful ignorance at the pleasure of others' suffering, both on an acute and obtuse level.
I do agree with you that this is common. Most societies today are not vegan. Hell, most aren't pro-Palestinian, or at least the governments aren't. That latter example is changing, thankfully.
I wasn't comparing. The person before me made a generalized statement. I used an example to contradict their statement.
Besides, the technology that came out of the Holocaust, gas chambers, without a doubt is used on a large scale today in exterminating domesticated animals. See this trailer for a documentary whose creator place cameras inside a pig gas chamber.
And fuck you. Let me guess, you're someone who doesn't compared the Holocaust to what's happening in Palestine because it isn't 1-to-1
How do you know they're not cognizant? Where's your evidence for that claim?
It's funny how if you choose to go vegan, you avoid this moral dilemma altogether. But of course you carnists and omnis fantasize realities that shift blame away from you.
Remember: it is you that enables the animal slave industry to exist, even the subsidies from the government that prop up this immoral industry. Voting with your ballet and wallet to end this unethical enslavement is the bare minimum to call yourself an "empathetic" human.
Try telling that to the fascist Israelis committing a live stream Holocaust.
People are either receptive or not. Activists can choose how to communicate their message. Just because it doesn't work for you, that doesn't mean it won't work for others.
How do we know cows have no conception of rape? Or no conception of when their children, right after being born, are taken away from them, never to be seen again?
Your application of false equivalency here just cements my idea of you. You're egocentric and anthropocentrist, and only care about the human species for moral consideration. You're no different to me than the fascists in power the world over that seek to dominate minority groups.
Cows have a variety of responses to being artificially inseminated. Because of this, farmers have adopted different tactics to force them to submit, whether that's using drugs, stun guns, cages that don't allow the cows to flee. Whether cows resist, which is possible, or they submit doesn't matter. They are still raped at the end of the day.
If YOU know so much about the dairy industry, then you either know the answers to this debate and choose to ignore them because it makes you look bad, or you ignore the reality altogether and tell yourself bedtime stories to cope with your already existing immoral habits.