A position on animal ethics that is worth adopting.

I strongly disagree. Going vegan is honorable, however:

Sentience alone does not warrant the highest level of "respect" (human to human). Also, humans are caged, incarcerated, and abused at startling rates so get out of the vegan fantasy land for a moment.

Furthermore, becoming vegan does not grant someone a moral high ground, nor is it entirely possible. You are a human, you have evolutionarily benefited from the subjugation of animals. If you don't buy this, okay. But you use medicine that has tested on animals. You have a cell phone that subjugated human life in assembly. You kill animals, insects, and various other living forms just by driving or walking.

The only position to adopt is to cut back on the consumption of animal products significantly, and to better the conditions that the farmed animals live in. This make sense from an environmental viewpoint far more than any sentience or "i care about animals" trope / argument.

Why do humans always have to feel good about themselves when deciding an action? Because we are immoral, overly sentient creatures, that invented morality. Don't act like vegans are by default morally superior to people who eat animal products, because this just shows your misunderstanding of animal ethics.

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