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[โ€“] Visstix@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't give a fuck about the animal cruelty part.. it's different food, just call it something different. What's so difficult to understand?

[โ€“] Taalnazi@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Aight, if animal cruelty is no problem, fair. That's valid. We're all humans, after all.

So, I take it you then don't object to being stuffed with pesticides, herded with thousands of people in a crammed space, and transported off with a truck to slaughter, where you get stunned, electrically tortured, chopped and cut into bits, with your skin being used for leather?

Just want to let you know that the meat industry is doing exactly what people did to the Jews many years ago.

I followed your instructions and called it something different; animal-cruelty free meat. Why do you feel attacked for something that does not affect you in the slightest?

[โ€“] Chakravanti@monero.town -1 points 1 day ago

You make a valid point off subject. Have you seen the Epstein files yet?

[โ€“] Visstix@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Again with the animal cruelty. This isn't about animal cruelty. I welcome lab grown meat, which is actually meat. I just don't understand why there is a need to imitate the meat industry. They can create new things, better things, and it doesn't have to be related to the meat industry at all. Now it's something similar tasting but not quite the same food. If it's labeled as something completely different maybe it would get more popular.

Because that's how substitute products work? I hated meat salami, I love non meat salami. Simple as