It’s been relitigated here constantly with nothing good coming of it, I get why you feel that way but at some point we should stop doing counterproductive things
Then don't join the discussion I guess? If you want to talk about animal welfare you're not going to avoid the subject of animal welfare, so the only way is to just take a step back.
Are we doing this again
You can't expect to have a discussion about animal welfare and not have it come up.
It’s been relitigated here constantly with nothing good coming of it, I get why you feel that way but at some point we should stop doing counterproductive things
Could just not chime in with "Are we really doing this?" whenever a person mentions not eating animals. *shrug*
Then don't join the discussion I guess? If you want to talk about animal welfare you're not going to avoid the subject of animal welfare, so the only way is to just take a step back.