• Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.caOP
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    2 days ago

    This isn’t a zero-sum game you can help people and the animals at the same time. You wouldn’t be trying to divert attention from dog abuse so don’t do it with the fish.

    Please leave this thread and post articles about human suffering rather than attacking articles that advocate for the better treatment of the animals.

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      This isn’t a zero-sum game you can help people and the animals at the same time.

      Prove it.

      Show me how you get the resources to do both. Animalists are high on saving whales, kitties, puppies, etc. while letting their neighbors die home alone, or worse… when not directly saying “I love animals, I hate people”.

      Please leave this thread and post articles about human suffering

      No, I think I’m right where I should be. I don’t doompost either.

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        Let’s address the issue of fishing, by having everyone go plant based. Give some transitionary period so that the infrastructure keeps up. Suddenly, we are putting out far less greenhouse emissions and have loads more land and resources available to tackle other issues, because plant based diets use a fraction of the land and resources to support, and generate far lower emissions.

        The climate situation stops enshittening at the rate it is, and we can allocate the freed up resources and land to “more important” issues, like (directly back into) climate change, homelessness, and world hunger.

        We save fish and cows and chickens and pigs and etc from living tortured lives (yes, there will be a massive drop in livestock population as we stop breeding them to live in factories).

        I love animals. I love people. This is a false dichotomy.