"plants feel pain, that's why I chose a diet that introduces extra steps on the food chain so that the animals I eat end up eating 10x as many plants as I would"
But have you considered when you bake bread you are killing thousands of yeast?
(Written to me in earnest by someone who I guess thought yeast was some kind of animal)
I've never seen it used genuinely besides jokes. Do people really do that?
There is one particularly odious debatelord on lemm.ee or lemmy.world that goes to lengths to argue that in several threads. Often enough for me to have recognized the useename. So yeah definitely seen it in the wild.
My favourite is when someone told me that cows explode if they're not milked and they were being 100% serious
Worse only was the claim that animals don't have emotions like we do because they lack speech. Somehow communication is a necesary requirement for experiencing emotion?
The most ableist shit ever...
are the animals that totally have no way of communicating any of their thoughts or attitudes in this room with us right now
