The book in question is The Vegetarian Myth and it is full of arguments of a similar caliber

  • macerated_baby_presidents [he/him]
    ·
    1 month ago

    vegans: animals have wants and needs

    carnists: but what if APPLES had wants and needs? that's why I am going to throw these live chicks into a grinder

    • Hexamerous [he/him]
      ·
      1 month ago

      I would ask them about shredding human babies, but I'm too afraid of the answer.

      • booty [he/him]
        ·
        1 month ago

        wait im pretty sure i can answer this one, im the carnist whisperer

        well, they taste like pork. we've gotta eat something, why not ground baby?

  • FnordPrefect [comrade/them, he/him]
    ·
    1 month ago

    It sure is wild how all those apple orchards popped into existence because animals pooped the seeds in nice neat rows over vast acreage. So much so, that we have a near perpetual abundance of apples i-love-not-thinking

  • naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    ·
    1 month ago

    Consider: eating an Apple doesn't benefit the tree 🤔 ergo I am going to terrorise and eat a pig.

    Checkmate canines lions protein crop deaths no take backsies.

    • BeamBrain [he/him]
      hexagon
      M
      ·
      1 month ago

      It's only legitimate if the orchard has a gold fringe

  • Leon_Frotsky [she/her, undecided]
    ·
    edit-2
    1 month ago

    Consider: I find the seeds tasty so I om nom them like God intended and I'm returning to tradition by exclusively shitting in the woods

  • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
    ·
    1 month ago

    Seems like there's more apple trees now than there would be if we didn't cultivate them, cause otherwise we wouldn't bother. We are an entire species thar got domesticated by fucking wheat. If you're gonna go all Darwin on what the plant would prefer, I can say for sure, edible plants have us by the balls. I'd the absolute unquestionable apex animal spends most of the resources not spent on killing each other on propagating your species, I think we can see who the dom is when looking at things from an outside perspective.

  • EpicKebabEater [he/him, it/its]
    ·
    1 month ago

    The plant does not want anything, it does not have a nervous system. Evolution does not want anything either, it is name given to a self-evident tendency of things that are good at making more of itself making more of itself(I know it's a bit more complicated but the point is, it can't want anything).

    People will see an actual animal that has thoughts and feelings and a tree that does not and will equate them, absolute insanity.

  • WittyProfileName2 [she/her]
    ·
    1 month ago

    Vegans don't plant the seeds of every plant they eat.

    Therefore it's ok to kill animals.

    All right everyone wrap it up. no-choice

  • moujikman [none/use name]
    ·
    1 month ago

    Accidentally chewing apple seeds release hydrogen cyanide, a fast-acting toxic chemical. They don't us munching on that part.

    • fox [comrade/them]
      ·
      1 month ago

      You'd need to eat an unrealistic number of apples for it to affect you though

        • booty [he/him]
          ·
          1 month ago

          i skip the flesh and just go straight for a big ol' nutritious bowl of apple seeds

          i am too powerful to be taken down by some shit that sounds like a terrible candy

  • DragonBallZinn [he/him]
    ·
    edit-2
    1 month ago

    Literally the "Hurr durr plants have feelings! Epic troll!" fallacy.

    For someone that hates animals and wants to see them suffer so badly, carnists tend to be quite the sheep.