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Surely insulting intelligence is a good way to convince people to join your cause
I'm not trying to insult anyone's intelligence, I'm just being playful.
I have a million down votes b/c some weirdo went through my comments with a bot or something and brigaded me.
For reference for others, they do seem to be getting mass-downvoted on all their recent comments in their post history with plenty being pretty benign:
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Link to the article if anyone wants to read it: https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23817808/pig-farm-investigation-feedback-immunity-feces-intestines
Bro this isn't about veganism, I love the taste of bacon too. What I read in that article is absolutely fucked. A small quote:
Male piglets at the farm have their tails cut off and testicles ripped out by hand without anesthesia or pain relief, both standard practices in the industry. The investigator filmed employees tossing the testicles at each other and at a wall that was covered in them.
yeah, meat lover here, it's real fucked and completely legal.
These practices are all legal and widespread because lawmakers have made them so. The federal Animal Welfare Act excludes livestock from protection, while many state animal cruelty laws exempt “customary farming practices,” allowing the industry to define what’s customary. Big Ag is one of the more powerful lobbies in Washington.
In some states, it’s even illegal to conduct investigations like the one featured in this story. From the early 1990s to the early 2020s, a number of states passed “ag-gag” laws, which generally prohibit people from taking videos or photographs on farms without permission. Fortunately, most have been struck down as unconstitutional.
So... you're less likely to hear from "preachy vegans" (aka investigations into these abhorrent practices) in the future but no less likely to be eating meat that was fed poop. cooooool.
