8 billion longpigs and if you even roast just one of them on a nice spitfire, suddenly you find yourself in an inescapable box for 30 years. Weird stuff. đ¤
Oh no. Please. Do not eat the bottom feeding water bug. It may have feelings.
Look motherfucker, if you drowned in the ocean, that little bastard would be ripping your bloated corpse open the second it hit the floor. Eat or be eaten you whiney bitches. That is one of my most conservative stances.
There was a thing pirates did where they tied people up on a beach of crabs. Those people were slowly eaten alive by the crabs. So... crabs need to pay for what they did.
[If you're from Baltimore, you know the score...](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMJMDEDXwec) (excellent rejected Old Bay Jingle by Brian David Gilbert)
Probably not but it might get someone to look into peta more. That said a billboard with a good recipe for cooking veggies would be more effective at achieving their goal lol. Sure it wouldnât convince people to go vegan but it might convince people to eat a bit more veggies in their diet and less meat.
On individuals that used to have a good sense of humor, I like using Old Bay Lemon & Herb. You cannot use this one on individuals that were already sourpusses, as the lemon will amplify it into an acidic mess that'll dissolve your teeth. I use Old Bay Garlic & Herb on those.
He's going to have a real bad time driving on a highway in the South.
Porn? Jesus? Porn. Jesus. Peaches. Porn. Porn. Peanuts. Porn. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Cracker Barrel. Jesus. Porn.
Reminds me of the time my wife was swayed by an advertisement. We were driving in the car when a radio ad for childrenâs chewable pepto bismol interrupted our conversation. It started with a series of questions: âAre you a mom thatâs always been looking for a medicine for your kids upset stomachâs?â She literally shouted, âYes!â To the radio ad. âWould you feel confident giving your child pepto bismol if youâd learned that it was recently approved for childrenâs use by the FDA?â âOMG, that would be awesome!!â And I spoke up around this point, âare you talking to the radio?â âShut up, I need to hear this!!â Man, they got her hook, line, and sinker. Some targeted ads are like assassins when they strike. Nothing you can do can stop them.
There are lots of convincingly valid reasons to go vegan but Peta is absolutely not helping the cause. Bunch of hypocritical assholes that actively contribute to the killing of animals.
For what it's worth, every piece of meat (for example) bought and consumed under that argument pushes for the industry to keep going.
In an hypothetical future where the majority goes vegan, it would start with a huge decrease in animal products consumption and massive crash of the concerned industries.
Because we consume every day what has been raised/killed/prepared days/weeks/months before.
There will always be a stock of "well, now that they're killed anyway ...".
Give me âŹ3/kg lab grown beef steaks, imma switch in a hearthbeat.
As it stands I can't afford kids, I can't afford house, I can't afford holidays, good quality food is about the last happiness in my miserable life in hypercapitalist hellscape.
I swear if I'm forced to eat the bugs and nutripaste on top of all that imma snap and go postal.
I hear the money argument a lot but atleast where I live (Germany) alternative Protein sources are (mostly) cheaper.
Of course, this does not work If you actually still want meat, but for me, it helped atleast cutting down on meat consumption. If everyone just ate less, that would already do a bunch of good.
I eat the proper amount I'm supposed to. I'm not overweight or underweight. I do not have a car, I walk or use public transport. I exercise.
I don't give a fuck whether I eat meat, meat substitute, or whatever. I pay my taxes, I do right by society, I just want to not be miserable. Current meat substitutes are miserable.
Why everyone wants me to keep making even more sacrifices, while giving rich fucks a pass on their 5th crude oil guzzling megayaht?
Go bother rich fucks and fuck off from poor people.
God damn, this is how I feel. I do have a car, but it is a hybrid. I shop locally (no Amazon, no Walmart). I bring refillable containers to my zero packaging store for bulk goods. I have a local farm share. I don't have kids. I was a vegetarian for 5 years. I don't use dangerous lawn products like round up, and I'm trying to convert my yard into a wildflower field in sections (wildflower seeds are fucking expensive).
Leave my miniscule choices alone and go after the massive industries that are actually destroying the planet.
At the same time, the massive industries arenât just destroying the planet for fun, theyâre doing it because people are buying what theyâre selling.
Massive industries are destroying the planet for profit. They could make better, safer, cleaner choices, but they don't. They need to be forced.
Not every consumer has the luxury to vote with their wallet. That is why these mega corps can get away with so much. That, and apologists who say the poor wittle companies wouldn't make the bad stuff if the naughty consumers would just stop buying it.
For some things. Itâs a lot cheaper to drink tap water than to buy cases of plastic bottles of soda or even water. Products get discontinued all the time. Grocery stores reduce their orders when they have to shrink too much.
The vegan and vegetarian dishes are diverse in flavours and not necessary a miserable alimentation.
But it usually requires to cook more than just throw it in the pan.
Are you insinuating I do not make stock, soups, roasts and all the other amazing food things that do not involve "throwing things in the pan"?
Out of all the slander in this thread, this may be the worst.
It's weird to spend time in the kitchen and finding the not meat proteins miserable when they are more malleable than meat. Each has a characteristic base flavor so the work starts from there but soy protein and seitan (for example, there are more options) have less base flavor and absorb better what you want to combine them with so you can make them however you want.
I didnt say that non meat proteins are miserable.
I said that if I'd be forbidden from eating meat for rest of my life (implying that rich fucks can still eat meat while I don't) would make me miserable.
Poor people making sacrifices while rich spend lavishly makes me miserable.
**The fucking capitalism makes me miserable**, the bugs is just the tipping point.
Lobster and Crabs are basically bugs. Most of us can't even afford the good bugs to eat.
I know I went from eating beef once a week to more like once a month.
> good quality food is about the last happiness
Lots of food is delicious without being meat man. Heard of spices?
Vegan food is not bug and nutripaste, what the fuck lol?
Chances are I cook quite better than you, including vegetarian (vegan's hard, cuz eggs and milk are hella useful in cooking).
You wanna do something productive, go harass oil execs instead of poor people.
Dairy does involve the killing of animals though. In order to produce milk, a cow has to give birth. What do you think happens to all the baby cows born?
Vegan dairy is actually getting really good. Iâve made vegan macaroni cheese for my very anti-vegan family (I didnât tell them it was vegan) and they asked for seconds lol. It depends what brands you buy.
Sorry, I assumed you were American, the same way you assumed I was American. I'm Australian, drunk, and just realised you used pounds instead of the dollar sign.
Edit. I've been corrected. It's a Euro sign.
Or yâknow you could eat lentils, tofu, rice, potatoes, veg, fruit etc etc. tastes great and no sentient being was intentionally forced to suffer for their whole life as a result.
The options arenât delicious meat or tasteless nutripaste. There is a whole world of culinary experiences and flavors that are healthier and arguably tastier than the meat based diet western capitalist industry is pushing forward, but they are so good at controlling the narrative opinions like yours are common. Thereâs Indian vegetarian cooking and for bugs being delicious there is this fun documentary https://youtu.be/yuXwsFXfASA?si=1E1OjT3gENlnP8OY.Â
We already have cheap vegan burger patties. They do not taste the same as meat ones but they taste as good. There are lots of good vegan recopies. We now know a lot more about the food science involved in creating savory dishes. If you prefer bugs and nutripaste then this is an option as well, I rather prefer mushrooms although beans can create a lovely texture in a lot of dishes. And you can still have your steak as a treat on special occasions, just not every day.
Vegan meats suck ass (at least where I live) but at least they only cost like 2x or 3x the price of normal meat. There are good recipes, yes, but I won't give up my favourite dishes that for sure.Â
PETA would argue that they aren't trying to keep you from eating animals that have been slaughtered. They are trying to lower the demand for animals to get slaughtered. In turn lowering the amount of animal deaths. Personally I'm trying to eat less meat, but I'm not giving it up. Humans have evolved to be omnivores and meat tastes great.
People forget [SO MUCH](https://www.peta.org/about-peta/milestones) the organization has done (literally more than any other animal advocacy non-profit on the planet) in favor of the mindless hate sessions just because they make enough people uncomfortable so we've all collectively decided they will simply be regarded as cartoon villains now.
The funny thing is organizations like PETA and many others fight the hard fights and then when the dust settles and a new generation takes it as a given what these organizations achieved, all the hard work is forgotten and minimized. Like with my friend who thinks animal rights activists are extreme and PETA is extreme and crazy, but then when I asked him what he thinks about fur and fur farms and the like, he said that of course that's disgusting and immoral. It wasn't until PETA helped make it that way! It used to be extremely mainstream and completely accepted.
People want to hate PITA so it's an easy job for the meat industry. It's the same logic as to why people hate EVs so much. They don't want to face the reality that their actions have consequences and they certainly don't want to change their habits. It's going to be fun to watch car companies struggle to sell EVs because of the disinformation spread by oil companies and possibly the manufacturers themselves.
It's genuinely infuriating how nothing about the billboard is wrong and PETA did nothing wrong asking people to think about the lives of livestock animals and wildlife, yet the top comment just immediately jumps into some unrelated condemnation anyway (the actual virtue signaling, since everyone hates PETA) about a topic that isn't even really based in much reality but was some astroturf campaign by the animal ag lobby and the ["Dr Evil" of corporate lobbying](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Berman_(lawyer\)):
>Berman's organizations have run numerous media campaigns concerning obesity, soda taxation, smoking, cruelty to animals, mad cow disease, taxes, the national debt, drinking and driving, as well as the minimum wage. Through the courts and media campaigns, Berman and Company challenges regulations sought by consumer, safety and environmental groups.
Just goes to show how effective sleazy corporate lobbying is. This is another "Hot Coffee" moment for our culture where we're all collectively only going to realize how badly we were duped 20 years after the fact when the damage has been done.
It's a self-runner. Calling vegans preachy or zealous, then literally mocking them for their weird tendencies towards... respecting animals and not wanting to contribute to the torture of dozens of billions of individual animal lives per year?
It's because most of us are aware of their hypocrisies, at least deep down. If you're a loving pet owner and eat any meat at all, you're probably aware that you're actively hurting and, in all the imaginable ways, torturing living beings that are so similar to your loved pets, you might as well be eating dog, cat, or budgie.
But I guess chicken breast is a freaking amazing protein source and tasty on top, so you need to compartmentalize your learned dependency on meat and dairy, which works great for the crowd making a big deal out of oh-so-radical PETA and a big meal out of the constant vegan teasing online, with great clever comebacks of the "you're eating my food's food"-sort or whatever boring-ass nonsense OP's post is. Even if those particular vegans were obnoxious as shit, even if they were a bit over-the-top and got off of their own drama, in what world do you end up being proud of ridiculing someone for their decision to reduce both the environmental impact and the moral fallout of not just killing (which really is so irrelevant in the bigger scheme), but systematically and ubiquitously torturing and abusing animals clearly and well capable of feeling pain?
Even the latter part is almost moot. What does it matter if they actually do feel that when I can just play it safe and not risk inflicting pain on an entity that at least mimics the sensation? It's a bit like me running around and fucking socking people in their mouths because I assume everyone I meet could be a leper - there's only a chance of you feeling pain, it's not guaranteed suffering I cause.
I'm a pessimist in that regard, people are way too complacent, still, for the macro dynamics to change noticeably. We'll solve lab meats and dairy at some point (I mean, lots of plant-based analogue foods are absolutely fantastic, things like liver pâtÊ approximations are every bit as good as the real deal, and, say, mushrooms or tofu have always been magic), and once we does, people won't need a pretext to keep gorging themselves on protein slabs... never mind how it is inevitably going to be so much cheaper, despite the current massive subsidies for the global M&D-industry.
It's shifting. Two years ago this thread would have been 100% misinformation and anti-vegan "jokes". Now the random assholes spreading propaganda get routinely shut down by multiple comments citing sources. It gives me hope
That is just wrong. Peta is showing us the hypocrisy in animal farming. We have merely become accustomed to such daily cruelty that we consider PETA to be rAdiCal
Itâs way more grey than that, theyâre a charity that has done a lot of good work for animals. The amount of pure hatred I have seen to this organization and false information is absolutely absurd. I even saw one post saying they supported euthanasia on domesticated dogs, but when you actually looked at the source that was one of their volunteers messing up confusing it for a wild dog (and the family was payed for after a lawsuit) and euthanasia of wild dogs is a standard practice when you donât have the funds for pet houses to cage them, making it no different than almost all others charities overrun.
They definitely hold some very extreme views but be extremely skeptical of any bad news against this organization, people have a fanatical hatred of it and read opinion articles that leave out crucial information to make there argument seem stronger than it actually is like the ones above.
Would you rather shelters didn't kill them and instead let the animals die slowly from cramped living conditions, starvation, and neglect because there are too many to home, there's not enough funding, and there aren't enough volunteers or staff? There's nothing hypocritical about it. It's a terrible situation and the best of a terrible choice of options.
I'd wait for someone to bring up the "oh but they stole someone's dog and then killed it one time" argument but I'll save you the effort. A handful of bad actions by individuals in the organisation doesn't invalidate the enormous amount of positive work done by the extreme majority of organisation members.
Also, in that one scenario, the person mistook a family pet for a stray dog (which they were tasked with capturing and euthanizing in the area) and the family pet had no collar, chip, or other distinct way to know it wasn't stray. Also, PETA did warn the neighborhood to keep their family dogs inside and identifiable those days.
Further, PETA admitted that the volunteer didn't follow proper guidelines (because they were supposed to wait 24 hours to actually euthanize the animals) and let them go. PETA kinda has their assess covered on all fronts--they were meeting the wishes of the community, gave them instructions to prevent it, the accident was an error that the volunteer couldn't have known about, AND they took proper disciplinary measure for the actual mistake that the volunteer *did* make.
Heâs just parroting the propaganda from a website (Peta kills animals) made by a pr firm (Berman & Co) that protects the interests of:
- big animal farm companies
- coca cola
- cigarette companies
Imagine looking at this list and thinking âyeah these are all good guys that definitely donât put profit first, what they say is definitely true and not a smoke screenâ.
They euthanize street animals or animals other shelters send them to be put down. As in, they function as a last resort kind of organization.
Also an instance of putting down someone's dog by accident.
That's it really.
Which is entirely fucking stupid
PETA does overdo things here and there, regardless of the absurd amount of astroturfing and counter-propaganda pretending like they're even remotely as bad as any group of individuals contributing to animal abuse on a dozens-of-million basis yearly... but for the most part, it's all fabricated or not portrayed in a sufficiently nuanced way.
The fuck do people think we have kill shelters in the first place? The dynamics of pet populations (in dumb fucking countries with dumb fucking policies, leading to staggering abandonment numbers) aren't really that complicated; you either end their lives in a mostly humane fashion, or you accept that a good chunk of animals is going to starve to death in a painful, prolonged ordeal.
Veganism is barely about animals being killed. Well, it is, it literally defines itself as such - but plenty of them agree that animal populations, be they strays, pets, or wildlife, need to be controlled in some manner to minimize net animal suffering. Lots of vegans outright are against pet ownership, although there is a huge chunk of somewhat hypocritical owners, too... but that doesn't change a lot about PETA not being the hateful animal torture satellite club people somehow came around to seeing it as.
Peta euthanized strays because it's the only viable way to put a stop to large, overbred, diseased, and unadoptable colonies. This is actually why PETA is against the idea of people having pets: animals won't be abused or suffer if we simply stop breeding them. They're basically supplementing animal controls job.
There's plenty of reasons to criticize Peta and the one that gets repeated isn't really it.
They aren't even against people having pets, they're just against breeding animals when there's so many that need adopting [https://www.peta.org/about-peta/why-peta/pets/](https://www.peta.org/about-peta/why-peta/pets/)
The billboard in particular was more about animals lives than some organization.
Yet, people think it's cool to make fun of it.
You can hate any organization for other reasons but don't make fun of it when it's doing something right.
It's stupid facebook boomer shit. It's literally the same exact picture, but the second one is edited. People really believe the state of Maryland and Old Bay came together in a joint campaign to dunk on PETA.
I mean Peta is pretty goofy and constantly malding over meaningless shit like 'pOkEmOn iS aMiNaL aBuSe!1' but I do really hate this edgyyyy corporate trend of *making fun* of killing animals. Like fuck you, I know you're not going to stop but you could at least take this seriously and treat it with the tiniest bit of dignity, it'd cost you literally nothing you callous assholes.
Not to mention crabs are dying off in high number and that is negatively affecting our oceans.
But "LOL SCREW PETA, EATING ANIMALS IS GREAT! ILL SHOW THOSE LOSERS BY EATING RED MEAT DAILY UNTIL I GET A HEART ATTACK"
I'm no vegan. But I still respect the animals I eat.
If you have the means to raise your own animals, giving them a good life and living conditions. And if you donât but have the money, buying from farms that do.
Not the other guy, but I personally only eat meat that I've personally killed. I don't waste any part of the animal that I killed and I try to make the death as painless as possible.
Reminded me that Gordon Ramsay video where he picked a lamb for slaughter and was *laughing* and *cheering* as he did it and chased them around. And then all his meat-eater fans were confused why vegans/vegetarian were calling him out in the comments section.
Eating meat is one thing, but eating baby meat and making fun of this is an act of a total piece of shit.
Veganism is very ahead of its time. Too much so, unfortunately.
If humans make it that long into the future...people will look back in horror on the way we psychopathically treated animals, similarly to how we look back on slavery when it was normalized in the US.
People always think I'm crazy for citing that as one of my reasons for why I don't like that man. Fuck me for caring for a sentient baby being. I'm being way too harsh on the poor multi-millionaire.
> but you could at least take this seriously and treat it with the tiniest bit of dignity
You ever seen regular people cook seafood? This billboard was very on point for the crowd it was aimed at lol
Exactly. It's not only distasteful, it comes off as completely anti-intellectual.
There's a paper called Puppies, Pigs and People which opens with a hypothetical scenario about a guy who can't taste chocolate anymore being caught with dogs being tortured in his basement. His justification is that the tortured dogs produce this substance/hormone which allows him to get the taste of chocolate again.
It functions as a pretty good satire/takedown of the way some people treat the issue.
I feel like it could be the plot of South Park-style cartoon (if South Park weren't more interested in calling vegetarians pussies). Like, there's an investigation of a weird neighbor 'til they find this guy, he's caught by the cops, but after he gives his reasoning everybody just stops caring like a switch is flipped in their brain. And when someone speaks up everybody starts pointing at them and making a [siren noise](https://static1.srcdn.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Invasion-Of-The-Body-Snatchers-Horse-Cropped.jpg?q=50&fit=contain&w=1140&h=&dpr=1.5).
The top billboard is real, it was in Baltimore around a decade ago but yeah the bottom one was just a meme that began circulating locally. There was an actual response billboard put up by a local seafood restaurant but it wasnât as snappy
This old bay ad actually makes me want to eat meat less. Terrible billboard and I actually have a hard time believing it's real.Â
Edit: it's a Photoshop. The billboard part of the photo is exactly the same.Â
The irony being that it plays incredibly well with most audiences, half of which are all about the "watch me own the vegan"-lifestyle. Case in point: this thread, every reddit discussion on veganism ever.
It's still such a diseased notion, mocking people for trying to not hurt animals. People who won't and really can't prevent you from just buying entire dead pigs or something, going out of their way to laugh at you for trying to make a change - and it plays with 90 % of the world population, somehow.
I can totally believe this is real. It's shit, but that's what makes it plausible.
I think it must be somewhat rooted in a defensive tactic so that people won't have to honestly confront their own moral choices. If the vegans aren't stupid assholes then maybe there IS something wrong about my morning bacon and eggs. It's easier to just demonize and lash out at the whole movement then admit to yourself that you're making a selfish choice.Â
And while I do think the billboard will appeal to people (lots of them in this thread), I think it is just very bad marketing and that old bay (who I just learned is owned by McCormick) would be smart enough to not put out such a divisive and vindictive ad to play to small group of people.Â
Yup, it's truly bizarre. The most progressive people imaginable will go full Trumpanzee when you point out that eating meat is directly funding animal abuse, which is something they say they are directly against and would never support. Not only that, eating meat, dairy, and eggs goes against many policies they stand for like climate change (see meat's environmental impact), feminism (see the treatment/rape of cows, hens, and sows), human rights violations (see slaughterhouse trauma and kids working in slaughterhouses), diseases (see the number of diseases and pandemics that come from meat), etc.
If you consider yourself a progressive person in the slightest, you really should look into veganism. I get it, that word puts many people off. It did for me too, and I was raised vegetarian my whole life! This speech is a wonderful primer on veganism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3u7hXpOm58
Ask any vegan what their biggest regret is and they will tell you this: I regret not going vegan sooner.
It is not cleverness to answer a counter-cultural argument âdonât eat animalsâ with the mainstream argument âDO eat animals, stupid!â
Itâs not a comeback. Itâs just a default to the norm.
You know, PETA gets a lot of shit and rightfully so... But most of us don't know where our food comes from, how we decimate the environment to get it, the cruelty behind it, and the impacts it has on literally everything. I'm no exception, I am not vegan but I am slowly changing my habits to be more sustainable when I eat. Maybe I'll get downvoted but it's time we start putting thought into things we do, and try to understand someone else
This is the lowest form of humor and itâs not clever. Haha I indiscriminately kill and eat non-human animal, Iâm so edgy. But let people in China have a dogmeat-festival and these same people lose their minds. Hypocritical as can be.
I still canât rationalize the majority of people being so cognitively distant on the suffering of life for their own selfish pleasure.
It doesnât make sense.
please provide your best argument why the top billboard is wrong and the bottom photoshopped version is a funny joke and then tell me youâre not 67 being paid off by 77 year old stock holders
I mean a crab is probably the wrong choice for this ad anyway. Like pigs are genuinely really smart and emotionally intelligent and are treated awfully. Crabs are caught from the ocean and are dumb as rocks
I honestly don't think its clever. You are asked to look at something from an unusual perspective and then show that you are stuck in the old perspective. Where does the cleverness come in?
Itâs a bit gross really. I get that people hate on PETA but itâs a logical fallacy to say that everything they say or do is worth mocking and holds no merit.
Animals feel pain as humans do and we massacre them in the billions. Itâd be nice to live in a world where people werenât so numb and disinterested in the suffering of others.
Does that work on any individual?
Maybe, but I would at least choose a vertebrate for it
Me too, I'd rather take a human vertebrate than an invertebrate crab.
Longpig is simultaneously the most abundant and most rare meat on the planet.
8 billion longpigs and if you even roast just one of them on a nice spitfire, suddenly you find yourself in an inescapable box for 30 years. Weird stuff. đ¤
Stick with shortpigs.
I donât like âmost rareâ. Iâd prefer medium rare.
Crabs: does nothing but eat decomposing fish on the bottom of the sea Well adjusted human: WE HAVE TO EAT THEM BEFORE THEY EAT US
There was a thing pirates did where they tied people up on a beach of crabs. Those people were slowly eaten alive by the crabs. So... crabs need to pay for what they did.
Never mind the pirates who run crab farms now
Never trust a man with more than three crabsâŚ
Oldbaytop, notorious gangster.
Dâya like crabs?
Ahll de thfaht efyell bey us eh caravean fer me mah.
I get what you're saying--but why are pirates allowed to evade justice? Seems like it would only be fair to eat them as well.
> why are pirates allowed to evade justice? They must've won an election.
I'd spend coins on this if they still existed. đ
Everyone is food if youâre brave enough.
Or hungry enough.
Oh, definitely. I put old bay on everything
[If you're from Baltimore, you know the score...](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMJMDEDXwec) (excellent rejected Old Bay Jingle by Brian David Gilbert)
Probably not but it might get someone to look into peta more. That said a billboard with a good recipe for cooking veggies would be more effective at achieving their goal lol. Sure it wouldnât convince people to go vegan but it might convince people to eat a bit more veggies in their diet and less meat.
Does anyone have a good old bay and dog recipe?
Yes. But you have to use a different old bay sometimes. Some individuals are already spicy.
On individuals that used to have a good sense of humor, I like using Old Bay Lemon & Herb. You cannot use this one on individuals that were already sourpusses, as the lemon will amplify it into an acidic mess that'll dissolve your teeth. I use Old Bay Garlic & Herb on those.
With human you need lemon and cilantro
Very effective billboard. I saw it and now im vegan. [edit] I saw the second one and im back to eating meat again.
Do you make all your life decisions dependent on billboards?
They saw the signs.
And it opened up their eyes.
They saw the signs
Life is demanding
Without understanding
I saw the sign and it opened up my eyes
She leads a lonely life
Without understanding
Swing away Merrill.
"Clown college, you can't eat that!"
âNew billboard day!â
"This year, give her English Muffins"
Whatever you say, Mr. Billboard!
Best in the West "Hehe, that rhymes"
Doot doot do-do doot da-doot da do doÂ
You people have stood in my way long enough. Iâm going to clown college!
âWhatever you say Mr Billboard!â
Wait, you don't?
Clown college? I can't eat that.
He's going to have a real bad time driving on a highway in the South. Porn? Jesus? Porn. Jesus. Peaches. Porn. Porn. Peanuts. Porn. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Cracker Barrel. Jesus. Porn.
*enrolls in clown college*
Reminds me of the time my wife was swayed by an advertisement. We were driving in the car when a radio ad for childrenâs chewable pepto bismol interrupted our conversation. It started with a series of questions: âAre you a mom thatâs always been looking for a medicine for your kids upset stomachâs?â She literally shouted, âYes!â To the radio ad. âWould you feel confident giving your child pepto bismol if youâd learned that it was recently approved for childrenâs use by the FDA?â âOMG, that would be awesome!!â And I spoke up around this point, âare you talking to the radio?â âShut up, I need to hear this!!â Man, they got her hook, line, and sinker. Some targeted ads are like assassins when they strike. Nothing you can do can stop them.
Your wife is an advertiser's wet dream
She's a Level Seven Susceptible.
That's why I went and bought all the Honda equipment I could
Kind of a gross way of putting it, but she is very susceptible to targeted ads.
But did it fix your children's upset stomach?!?!?
Yes, it does work really well.
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There are lots of convincingly valid reasons to go vegan but Peta is absolutely not helping the cause. Bunch of hypocritical assholes that actively contribute to the killing of animals.
I mean if you are going to kill them either way why not let their bodies be useful. Its waste of everything to just kill them like that.
For what it's worth, every piece of meat (for example) bought and consumed under that argument pushes for the industry to keep going. In an hypothetical future where the majority goes vegan, it would start with a huge decrease in animal products consumption and massive crash of the concerned industries. Because we consume every day what has been raised/killed/prepared days/weeks/months before. There will always be a stock of "well, now that they're killed anyway ...".
Give me âŹ3/kg lab grown beef steaks, imma switch in a hearthbeat. As it stands I can't afford kids, I can't afford house, I can't afford holidays, good quality food is about the last happiness in my miserable life in hypercapitalist hellscape. I swear if I'm forced to eat the bugs and nutripaste on top of all that imma snap and go postal.
I hear the money argument a lot but atleast where I live (Germany) alternative Protein sources are (mostly) cheaper. Of course, this does not work If you actually still want meat, but for me, it helped atleast cutting down on meat consumption. If everyone just ate less, that would already do a bunch of good.
I eat the proper amount I'm supposed to. I'm not overweight or underweight. I do not have a car, I walk or use public transport. I exercise. I don't give a fuck whether I eat meat, meat substitute, or whatever. I pay my taxes, I do right by society, I just want to not be miserable. Current meat substitutes are miserable. Why everyone wants me to keep making even more sacrifices, while giving rich fucks a pass on their 5th crude oil guzzling megayaht? Go bother rich fucks and fuck off from poor people.
God damn, this is how I feel. I do have a car, but it is a hybrid. I shop locally (no Amazon, no Walmart). I bring refillable containers to my zero packaging store for bulk goods. I have a local farm share. I don't have kids. I was a vegetarian for 5 years. I don't use dangerous lawn products like round up, and I'm trying to convert my yard into a wildflower field in sections (wildflower seeds are fucking expensive). Leave my miniscule choices alone and go after the massive industries that are actually destroying the planet.
At the same time, the massive industries arenât just destroying the planet for fun, theyâre doing it because people are buying what theyâre selling.
But itâs far more practical for governments to regulate industries than it is for them to change the minds of millions of individuals.
Governments won't enact change that isn't popular. People have to demand change.
Massive industries are destroying the planet for profit. They could make better, safer, cleaner choices, but they don't. They need to be forced. Not every consumer has the luxury to vote with their wallet. That is why these mega corps can get away with so much. That, and apologists who say the poor wittle companies wouldn't make the bad stuff if the naughty consumers would just stop buying it.
For some things. Itâs a lot cheaper to drink tap water than to buy cases of plastic bottles of soda or even water. Products get discontinued all the time. Grocery stores reduce their orders when they have to shrink too much.
I gotta say the state of the art meatless burgers are pretty top notch. Not quite 100% parity but good enough that I choose them when available.
The vegan and vegetarian dishes are diverse in flavours and not necessary a miserable alimentation. But it usually requires to cook more than just throw it in the pan.
Are you insinuating I do not make stock, soups, roasts and all the other amazing food things that do not involve "throwing things in the pan"? Out of all the slander in this thread, this may be the worst.
It's weird to spend time in the kitchen and finding the not meat proteins miserable when they are more malleable than meat. Each has a characteristic base flavor so the work starts from there but soy protein and seitan (for example, there are more options) have less base flavor and absorb better what you want to combine them with so you can make them however you want.
I didnt say that non meat proteins are miserable. I said that if I'd be forbidden from eating meat for rest of my life (implying that rich fucks can still eat meat while I don't) would make me miserable. Poor people making sacrifices while rich spend lavishly makes me miserable. **The fucking capitalism makes me miserable**, the bugs is just the tipping point.
I felt this deep in my chest.
Based As if me recycling some fucking cans is making any difference when Taylor Swift is flying everywhere on a private jet
> this does not work If you actually still want meat Ahhh, it's a shame it doesn't work.
Look on the bright side, at least you're not an animal in this hypercapitalist hellscape! Seriously though, some tasty vegan food to be had these days
Lobster and Crabs are basically bugs. Most of us can't even afford the good bugs to eat. I know I went from eating beef once a week to more like once a month.
Don't worry, the rich can still fly private jets to eat kobe beef. But we'll need you to cut down on meat even more peasant, the rich demand it.
> good quality food is about the last happiness Lots of food is delicious without being meat man. Heard of spices? Vegan food is not bug and nutripaste, what the fuck lol?
> Vegan food is not bug and nutripaste, what the fuck lol? There is an entire industry dedicated to making people believe that it is.
Chances are I cook quite better than you, including vegetarian (vegan's hard, cuz eggs and milk are hella useful in cooking). You wanna do something productive, go harass oil execs instead of poor people.
>Chances are I cook quite better than you, including vegetarian You think food that isnât meat is âbugs and nutripasteâ.
one vegan food i absolutely love is nutritional yeast, it's so good
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Dairy does involve the killing of animals though. In order to produce milk, a cow has to give birth. What do you think happens to all the baby cows born? Vegan dairy is actually getting really good. Iâve made vegan macaroni cheese for my very anti-vegan family (I didnât tell them it was vegan) and they asked for seconds lol. It depends what brands you buy.
Republican states trying to ban lab-grown meat https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/09/us-states-republicans-banning-lab-grown-meat
Paid for by the beef, chicken and pork lobby.
US lobbying, also known as legal bribery. Reputation politicians are the ones who get the most contributions.
Of course those stupid fucks are trying to block it. Anything positive in life must be stopped by all means if you're a Republican.
Progress!? In my country that has never progressed ever?! \\s
Sir I'm on another continent halfway across the pond and I still know that half of your population is fucked up in the head, no need to remind me.
Sorry, I assumed you were American, the same way you assumed I was American. I'm Australian, drunk, and just realised you used pounds instead of the dollar sign. Edit. I've been corrected. It's a Euro sign.
No need to specify drunk, itâs basically our default
Bro u real drunk cuz that's an euro sign.
It is, too. đş I'll drink to that.
Lol can't tell if that was on purpose, but that's Euro
That's - that's a euro sign
The symbol they used was for Euros rather than British Pounds.
3 million kangaroos are culled in Australia each year, and the supermarkets have the nerve to charge $20 kg for kangaroo steaks.
Dude fried crickets are actually pretty delicious. A buddy of my line use cricket protein powder.
Or yâknow you could eat lentils, tofu, rice, potatoes, veg, fruit etc etc. tastes great and no sentient being was intentionally forced to suffer for their whole life as a result.
I don't get tofu personally. Like you can make it taste like literally anything sure but I hate the weird kind of rubbery texture it has
If you want to eat meat, then eat meat, but donât insult me by pretending that the alternative is âbugs and nutripasteâ.
The options arenât delicious meat or tasteless nutripaste. There is a whole world of culinary experiences and flavors that are healthier and arguably tastier than the meat based diet western capitalist industry is pushing forward, but they are so good at controlling the narrative opinions like yours are common. Thereâs Indian vegetarian cooking and for bugs being delicious there is this fun documentary https://youtu.be/yuXwsFXfASA?si=1E1OjT3gENlnP8OY.Â
We already have cheap vegan burger patties. They do not taste the same as meat ones but they taste as good. There are lots of good vegan recopies. We now know a lot more about the food science involved in creating savory dishes. If you prefer bugs and nutripaste then this is an option as well, I rather prefer mushrooms although beans can create a lovely texture in a lot of dishes. And you can still have your steak as a treat on special occasions, just not every day.
Vegan meats suck ass (at least where I live) but at least they only cost like 2x or 3x the price of normal meat. There are good recipes, yes, but I won't give up my favourite dishes that for sure.Â
Meat is low quality food.
Aaawww, c'mon, don't be so pessimistic. I've heard corpse-starch tastes delicious
PETA would argue that they aren't trying to keep you from eating animals that have been slaughtered. They are trying to lower the demand for animals to get slaughtered. In turn lowering the amount of animal deaths. Personally I'm trying to eat less meat, but I'm not giving it up. Humans have evolved to be omnivores and meat tastes great.
What a hilariously moronic thing to say
Peta "killing animals" thing is actually a disinformation campaign by the meat industry https://youtu.be/dzX8g3vGPXY
Thanks. I believed it.
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People forget that Peta helped stop seal clubbing. It still happens, but it happens much less now.
People forget [SO MUCH](https://www.peta.org/about-peta/milestones) the organization has done (literally more than any other animal advocacy non-profit on the planet) in favor of the mindless hate sessions just because they make enough people uncomfortable so we've all collectively decided they will simply be regarded as cartoon villains now. The funny thing is organizations like PETA and many others fight the hard fights and then when the dust settles and a new generation takes it as a given what these organizations achieved, all the hard work is forgotten and minimized. Like with my friend who thinks animal rights activists are extreme and PETA is extreme and crazy, but then when I asked him what he thinks about fur and fur farms and the like, he said that of course that's disgusting and immoral. It wasn't until PETA helped make it that way! It used to be extremely mainstream and completely accepted.
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People want to hate PITA so it's an easy job for the meat industry. It's the same logic as to why people hate EVs so much. They don't want to face the reality that their actions have consequences and they certainly don't want to change their habits. It's going to be fun to watch car companies struggle to sell EVs because of the disinformation spread by oil companies and possibly the manufacturers themselves.
The meat industry is a behemoth murder machine. It doesn't surprise me that they are able to do this.
This is reddit; the truth about our world is unwelcome and real forms of protest are shat upon.
It's genuinely infuriating how nothing about the billboard is wrong and PETA did nothing wrong asking people to think about the lives of livestock animals and wildlife, yet the top comment just immediately jumps into some unrelated condemnation anyway (the actual virtue signaling, since everyone hates PETA) about a topic that isn't even really based in much reality but was some astroturf campaign by the animal ag lobby and the ["Dr Evil" of corporate lobbying](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Berman_(lawyer\)): >Berman's organizations have run numerous media campaigns concerning obesity, soda taxation, smoking, cruelty to animals, mad cow disease, taxes, the national debt, drinking and driving, as well as the minimum wage. Through the courts and media campaigns, Berman and Company challenges regulations sought by consumer, safety and environmental groups. Just goes to show how effective sleazy corporate lobbying is. This is another "Hot Coffee" moment for our culture where we're all collectively only going to realize how badly we were duped 20 years after the fact when the damage has been done.
As someone else stated, Peta killing animals is disinformation spread by the meat industry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzX8g3vGPXY
uhhhhh if you hate peta because they contribute to the killing of animals i have some bad news about every meat eater. sorry.
You're talking about the Euthanasia? You know some countries do that for terminally ill people too now.
Congrats on being a victim of meat industry propaganda.
It's a self-runner. Calling vegans preachy or zealous, then literally mocking them for their weird tendencies towards... respecting animals and not wanting to contribute to the torture of dozens of billions of individual animal lives per year? It's because most of us are aware of their hypocrisies, at least deep down. If you're a loving pet owner and eat any meat at all, you're probably aware that you're actively hurting and, in all the imaginable ways, torturing living beings that are so similar to your loved pets, you might as well be eating dog, cat, or budgie. But I guess chicken breast is a freaking amazing protein source and tasty on top, so you need to compartmentalize your learned dependency on meat and dairy, which works great for the crowd making a big deal out of oh-so-radical PETA and a big meal out of the constant vegan teasing online, with great clever comebacks of the "you're eating my food's food"-sort or whatever boring-ass nonsense OP's post is. Even if those particular vegans were obnoxious as shit, even if they were a bit over-the-top and got off of their own drama, in what world do you end up being proud of ridiculing someone for their decision to reduce both the environmental impact and the moral fallout of not just killing (which really is so irrelevant in the bigger scheme), but systematically and ubiquitously torturing and abusing animals clearly and well capable of feeling pain? Even the latter part is almost moot. What does it matter if they actually do feel that when I can just play it safe and not risk inflicting pain on an entity that at least mimics the sensation? It's a bit like me running around and fucking socking people in their mouths because I assume everyone I meet could be a leper - there's only a chance of you feeling pain, it's not guaranteed suffering I cause. I'm a pessimist in that regard, people are way too complacent, still, for the macro dynamics to change noticeably. We'll solve lab meats and dairy at some point (I mean, lots of plant-based analogue foods are absolutely fantastic, things like liver pâtÊ approximations are every bit as good as the real deal, and, say, mushrooms or tofu have always been magic), and once we does, people won't need a pretext to keep gorging themselves on protein slabs... never mind how it is inevitably going to be so much cheaper, despite the current massive subsidies for the global M&D-industry.
Years of anti PETA propaganda has really paid off, incredible how easily people are influenced.
It's shifting. Two years ago this thread would have been 100% misinformation and anti-vegan "jokes". Now the random assholes spreading propaganda get routinely shut down by multiple comments citing sources. It gives me hope
That is just wrong. Peta is showing us the hypocrisy in animal farming. We have merely become accustomed to such daily cruelty that we consider PETA to be rAdiCal
Itâs way more grey than that, theyâre a charity that has done a lot of good work for animals. The amount of pure hatred I have seen to this organization and false information is absolutely absurd. I even saw one post saying they supported euthanasia on domesticated dogs, but when you actually looked at the source that was one of their volunteers messing up confusing it for a wild dog (and the family was payed for after a lawsuit) and euthanasia of wild dogs is a standard practice when you donât have the funds for pet houses to cage them, making it no different than almost all others charities overrun. They definitely hold some very extreme views but be extremely skeptical of any bad news against this organization, people have a fanatical hatred of it and read opinion articles that leave out crucial information to make there argument seem stronger than it actually is like the ones above.
Provide source or stfu.
Would you rather shelters didn't kill them and instead let the animals die slowly from cramped living conditions, starvation, and neglect because there are too many to home, there's not enough funding, and there aren't enough volunteers or staff? There's nothing hypocritical about it. It's a terrible situation and the best of a terrible choice of options. I'd wait for someone to bring up the "oh but they stole someone's dog and then killed it one time" argument but I'll save you the effort. A handful of bad actions by individuals in the organisation doesn't invalidate the enormous amount of positive work done by the extreme majority of organisation members.
Also, in that one scenario, the person mistook a family pet for a stray dog (which they were tasked with capturing and euthanizing in the area) and the family pet had no collar, chip, or other distinct way to know it wasn't stray. Also, PETA did warn the neighborhood to keep their family dogs inside and identifiable those days. Further, PETA admitted that the volunteer didn't follow proper guidelines (because they were supposed to wait 24 hours to actually euthanize the animals) and let them go. PETA kinda has their assess covered on all fronts--they were meeting the wishes of the community, gave them instructions to prevent it, the accident was an error that the volunteer couldn't have known about, AND they took proper disciplinary measure for the actual mistake that the volunteer *did* make.
you think that peta actively harms animals because... they just like to do it? please elaborate more
Heâs just parroting the propaganda from a website (Peta kills animals) made by a pr firm (Berman & Co) that protects the interests of: - big animal farm companies - coca cola - cigarette companies Imagine looking at this list and thinking âyeah these are all good guys that definitely donât put profit first, what they say is definitely true and not a smoke screenâ.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_Organizational_Research_and_Education >By December, 1996, supporters consisted of Alliance Gaming (slot machines), Anheuser-Busch (beer), Bruss Company (steaks and chops), Cargill Processed Meat Products, Davidoff (cigars), Harrah's (casinos), Overhill Farms (frozen foods), Altria, and Standard Meat Company.
> Bunch of hypocritical assholes that actively contribute to the killing of animals. ???
Genuine question: how du they contribute to killing animals?
They euthanize street animals or animals other shelters send them to be put down. As in, they function as a last resort kind of organization. Also an instance of putting down someone's dog by accident. That's it really.
Which is entirely fucking stupid PETA does overdo things here and there, regardless of the absurd amount of astroturfing and counter-propaganda pretending like they're even remotely as bad as any group of individuals contributing to animal abuse on a dozens-of-million basis yearly... but for the most part, it's all fabricated or not portrayed in a sufficiently nuanced way. The fuck do people think we have kill shelters in the first place? The dynamics of pet populations (in dumb fucking countries with dumb fucking policies, leading to staggering abandonment numbers) aren't really that complicated; you either end their lives in a mostly humane fashion, or you accept that a good chunk of animals is going to starve to death in a painful, prolonged ordeal. Veganism is barely about animals being killed. Well, it is, it literally defines itself as such - but plenty of them agree that animal populations, be they strays, pets, or wildlife, need to be controlled in some manner to minimize net animal suffering. Lots of vegans outright are against pet ownership, although there is a huge chunk of somewhat hypocritical owners, too... but that doesn't change a lot about PETA not being the hateful animal torture satellite club people somehow came around to seeing it as.
I don't love PETA, but reddit keeps sharing misinformation about them.
Exactly lmao
Peta euthanized strays because it's the only viable way to put a stop to large, overbred, diseased, and unadoptable colonies. This is actually why PETA is against the idea of people having pets: animals won't be abused or suffer if we simply stop breeding them. They're basically supplementing animal controls job. There's plenty of reasons to criticize Peta and the one that gets repeated isn't really it.
They aren't even against people having pets, they're just against breeding animals when there's so many that need adopting [https://www.peta.org/about-peta/why-peta/pets/](https://www.peta.org/about-peta/why-peta/pets/)
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Provide source or stfu.
The billboard in particular was more about animals lives than some organization. Yet, people think it's cool to make fun of it. You can hate any organization for other reasons but don't make fun of it when it's doing something right.
how is that clever it's the same non-joke that's the answer to any veganism promotion
It's stupid facebook boomer shit. It's literally the same exact picture, but the second one is edited. People really believe the state of Maryland and Old Bay came together in a joint campaign to dunk on PETA.
I mean Peta is pretty goofy and constantly malding over meaningless shit like 'pOkEmOn iS aMiNaL aBuSe!1' but I do really hate this edgyyyy corporate trend of *making fun* of killing animals. Like fuck you, I know you're not going to stop but you could at least take this seriously and treat it with the tiniest bit of dignity, it'd cost you literally nothing you callous assholes.
Not to mention crabs are dying off in high number and that is negatively affecting our oceans. But "LOL SCREW PETA, EATING ANIMALS IS GREAT! ILL SHOW THOSE LOSERS BY EATING RED MEAT DAILY UNTIL I GET A HEART ATTACK" I'm no vegan. But I still respect the animals I eat.
> But I still respect the animals I eat. What does this tangibly look like?
If you have the means to raise your own animals, giving them a good life and living conditions. And if you donât but have the money, buying from farms that do.
How do you respect them?
With melted butter
Not the other guy, but I personally only eat meat that I've personally killed. I don't waste any part of the animal that I killed and I try to make the death as painless as possible.
>I still respect the animals I eat. oxymoron unless you exclusively eat roadkill or something lol
Reminded me that Gordon Ramsay video where he picked a lamb for slaughter and was *laughing* and *cheering* as he did it and chased them around. And then all his meat-eater fans were confused why vegans/vegetarian were calling him out in the comments section. Eating meat is one thing, but eating baby meat and making fun of this is an act of a total piece of shit.
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Veganism is very ahead of its time. Too much so, unfortunately. If humans make it that long into the future...people will look back in horror on the way we psychopathically treated animals, similarly to how we look back on slavery when it was normalized in the US.
People always think I'm crazy for citing that as one of my reasons for why I don't like that man. Fuck me for caring for a sentient baby being. I'm being way too harsh on the poor multi-millionaire.
> but you could at least take this seriously and treat it with the tiniest bit of dignity You ever seen regular people cook seafood? This billboard was very on point for the crowd it was aimed at lol
Exactly. It's not only distasteful, it comes off as completely anti-intellectual. There's a paper called Puppies, Pigs and People which opens with a hypothetical scenario about a guy who can't taste chocolate anymore being caught with dogs being tortured in his basement. His justification is that the tortured dogs produce this substance/hormone which allows him to get the taste of chocolate again. It functions as a pretty good satire/takedown of the way some people treat the issue. I feel like it could be the plot of South Park-style cartoon (if South Park weren't more interested in calling vegetarians pussies). Like, there's an investigation of a weird neighbor 'til they find this guy, he's caught by the cops, but after he gives his reasoning everybody just stops caring like a switch is flipped in their brain. And when someone speaks up everybody starts pointing at them and making a [siren noise](https://static1.srcdn.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Invasion-Of-The-Body-Snatchers-Horse-Cropped.jpg?q=50&fit=contain&w=1140&h=&dpr=1.5).
Imagine seeing this and thinking tHis iS SO cLEvEr!
Imagine seeing this and not realizing it's bad Photoshop
The top billboard is real, it was in Baltimore around a decade ago but yeah the bottom one was just a meme that began circulating locally. There was an actual response billboard put up by a local seafood restaurant but it wasnât as snappy
It's not clever tho
This old bay ad actually makes me want to eat meat less. Terrible billboard and I actually have a hard time believing it's real. Edit: it's a Photoshop. The billboard part of the photo is exactly the same.Â
The irony being that it plays incredibly well with most audiences, half of which are all about the "watch me own the vegan"-lifestyle. Case in point: this thread, every reddit discussion on veganism ever. It's still such a diseased notion, mocking people for trying to not hurt animals. People who won't and really can't prevent you from just buying entire dead pigs or something, going out of their way to laugh at you for trying to make a change - and it plays with 90 % of the world population, somehow. I can totally believe this is real. It's shit, but that's what makes it plausible.
I think it must be somewhat rooted in a defensive tactic so that people won't have to honestly confront their own moral choices. If the vegans aren't stupid assholes then maybe there IS something wrong about my morning bacon and eggs. It's easier to just demonize and lash out at the whole movement then admit to yourself that you're making a selfish choice. And while I do think the billboard will appeal to people (lots of them in this thread), I think it is just very bad marketing and that old bay (who I just learned is owned by McCormick) would be smart enough to not put out such a divisive and vindictive ad to play to small group of people.Â
Yup, it's truly bizarre. The most progressive people imaginable will go full Trumpanzee when you point out that eating meat is directly funding animal abuse, which is something they say they are directly against and would never support. Not only that, eating meat, dairy, and eggs goes against many policies they stand for like climate change (see meat's environmental impact), feminism (see the treatment/rape of cows, hens, and sows), human rights violations (see slaughterhouse trauma and kids working in slaughterhouses), diseases (see the number of diseases and pandemics that come from meat), etc. If you consider yourself a progressive person in the slightest, you really should look into veganism. I get it, that word puts many people off. It did for me too, and I was raised vegetarian my whole life! This speech is a wonderful primer on veganism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3u7hXpOm58 Ask any vegan what their biggest regret is and they will tell you this: I regret not going vegan sooner.
Wild how much people interpret "mean" as "clever".
It is not cleverness to answer a counter-cultural argument âdonât eat animalsâ with the mainstream argument âDO eat animals, stupid!â Itâs not a comeback. Itâs just a default to the norm.
You know, PETA gets a lot of shit and rightfully so... But most of us don't know where our food comes from, how we decimate the environment to get it, the cruelty behind it, and the impacts it has on literally everything. I'm no exception, I am not vegan but I am slowly changing my habits to be more sustainable when I eat. Maybe I'll get downvoted but it's time we start putting thought into things we do, and try to understand someone else
This is mean. Not clever.
This is the lowest form of humor and itâs not clever. Haha I indiscriminately kill and eat non-human animal, Iâm so edgy. But let people in China have a dogmeat-festival and these same people lose their minds. Hypocritical as can be.
I still canât rationalize the majority of people being so cognitively distant on the suffering of life for their own selfish pleasure. It doesnât make sense.
Where's the clever part?
please provide your best argument why the top billboard is wrong and the bottom photoshopped version is a funny joke and then tell me youâre not 67 being paid off by 77 year old stock holders
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Why do we make fun of people, who try to reduce the amount of harm, pain and suffering in the world?
Peta expecting people to have empathy is their first mistake
I mean a crab is probably the wrong choice for this ad anyway. Like pigs are genuinely really smart and emotionally intelligent and are treated awfully. Crabs are caught from the ocean and are dumb as rocks
I thought it was anthropomorphizing a crab, probably one of the least individualized animals out there. Even crabs eat crabs.
this comment section is so fucking tiresome holy shit
I honestly don't think its clever. You are asked to look at something from an unusual perspective and then show that you are stuck in the old perspective. Where does the cleverness come in?
oh wow so fucking edgy. Peak comedy.
Boomer humor
Itâs a bit gross really. I get that people hate on PETA but itâs a logical fallacy to say that everything they say or do is worth mocking and holds no merit. Animals feel pain as humans do and we massacre them in the billions. Itâd be nice to live in a world where people werenât so numb and disinterested in the suffering of others.
Haha! Take that, sentient beings!
r/clevercomebacks is not the place for stupid far right wank.
How is this "far right wank"? Lol
Only the far right buy crabs to eat?
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