BonesOfTheMoontoaww@lemmy.worldEnglish·4 months agoCow sleeping in someone's lap.(lemmy.world)imagearrow-up1610arrow-down19message-square42fedilink
arrow-up1601arrow-down1imageCow sleeping in someone's lap.(lemmy.world)BonesOfTheMoontoaww@lemmy.worldEnglish·4 months agomessage-square42fedilink
minus-squarelseifEnglisharrow-up13arrow-down6·4 months agolinkfedilinki also think plants look nice, but i still eat them
minus-squareUraniumBlazerEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down7·4 months agolinkfedilinkAnimals (cows in this case) feel pain, fear, grief and so on. Plants don’t. We can survive just fine without murdering millions of sentient animals. Killing dogs and eating their meat is animal abuse. Doing the same to cows isn’t. Quite hypocritical if you ask me.
minus-squareUraniumBlazerEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down0·4 months agoedit-24 months agolinkfedilinkAre they sentient? The above qualities describe sentience to a certain degree. Do plants feel grief? Do they feel fear?
minus-squarelseifEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down0·4 months agolinkfedilinkit depends how u define sentience. we all have to draw the line somewhere. u choose somewhere between animals and plants, and that is fine. agree to disagree
i also think plants look nice, but i still eat them
Animals (cows in this case) feel pain, fear, grief and so on. Plants don’t. We can survive just fine without murdering millions of sentient animals.
Killing dogs and eating their meat is animal abuse. Doing the same to cows isn’t. Quite hypocritical if you ask me.
plants can feel pain too
Are they sentient? The above qualities describe sentience to a certain degree. Do plants feel grief? Do they feel fear?
it depends how u define sentience. we all have to draw the line somewhere. u choose somewhere between animals and plants, and that is fine. agree to disagree