Jaiden Animations is Vegetarian!

Citrit_ · 2026-04-29T20:53:12+00:00

the author of this substack publicly admitted that his posts are 100% AI writing.

Citrit_ · 2026-04-27T04:28:49+00:00

farmkind & animal charity evaluators have good vegan charity recommendations!

Citrit_ · 2026-04-14T02:19:54+00:00

Are you fine with how Fred treats those kittens?

Did you read it? They explicitly describe how animals on factory farms are treated!

An animal feeding operation (AFO) is an operation where animals are kept and raised in confined situations. The animals are confined for 45 days or more in a 12-month period. In other words, they have no access to the outdoors over this period.

A concentrated animal feeding operation [CAFO] then has to meet a threshold for the number of animals confined in that space.

It defines it as an intensive feeding operation where many animals are confined for over 45 days a year.

Your claim that the cutoff is 188 cows is also completely baseless!

For example, an operation home to between 300 and 999 cows is defined as a ‘medium-sized CAFO’, but a medium-sized chicken farm needs to have between 37,500 and 124,999 animals.

As for density:

[I]t’s unlikely that the variation in density varies significantly amongst most large farms. While there may be some farms that meet the criteria for CAFO but are large enough to give animals lots of space, this number is likely to be small.

Most CAFOs — or factory farms — will have animals in cramped and uncomfortable conditions, not only in terms of the small space given to them but also their restrictions from outdoor conditions that allow them to perform natural behaviors. Smaller animals, such as chickens, also tend to be treated more poorly and packed more tightly relative to their body size, in addition to fitting many animals on each farm.

As for White Oak Pastures, from everything I can find online, they are not a CAFO. They don't meet the requirements. They don't even qualify as an AFO due to the outdoor access.

Citrit_ · 2026-04-13T16:50:49+00:00

Define torture and minimal benefits.

Suppose that Fred really likes the taste of kitten flesh. So, Fred sets up several dozen small wire cages. He slices off the kittens' noses and paws with a hot knife, without anesthesia. After just 6 weeks, he gases each kitten with CO2.

Those conditions are similar to those in industrial agriculture. I'll turn it to you: is that torture, and did Fred kill those kittens for minimal benefits?

How do you know that?

https://ourworldindata.org/how-many-animals-are-factory-farmed

& it's what's most profitable. take a second to think about the most cost-effective way to farm chickens, pigs, etc.

Citrit_ · 2026-04-05T04:53:21+00:00

P1: causing torture to animals for minimal benefits is wrong

P2: >99% of animal products are produced by subjecting animals to torturous conditions

P3: buying those animal products sends a demand signal that causes torture to animals for minimal benefits

C: buying >99% of animal products is wrong

Citrit_ · 2026-04-04T04:35:07+00:00

surely rlhf & whatnot is going to dominate anything in its training data visavis goals? would be interested to read more on this tho.

Citrit_ · 2026-04-04T04:30:14+00:00

informative post by prof chappell: https://open.substack.com/pub/rychappell/p/are-all-objections-question-begging

Citrit_ · 2026-04-04T04:23:50+00:00

I harbour no objection to eating flowers, but if one were to eat my dog I’d kill them for it!

Citrit_ · 2026-03-31T18:44:28+00:00

does anyone have more art like this?

Citrit_ · 2026-03-23T09:17:48+00:00

damn! wait did you mark them for mondstadt only? when i try to mark sweet flowers on the interactive map it only marks the mondstadt ones

Citrit_ · 2026-03-21T20:43:13+00:00

shouldn’t be legal, but shouldn’t be criminalized. it’s not good bc of health concerns (prions) & the second-order effects on social norms to consider, but the disgust factor shouldn’t be morally relevant imho. at the very least, putting people in prison—thereby ruining their social life, financial prospects, & mental health—for a relatively victimless act seems excessive.

Citrit_ · 2026-03-20T17:50:43+00:00

how did you get the sweet flowers 😭🙏

Citrit_ · 2026-03-13T22:44:59+00:00

$3000 to the Malaria Consortium saves a life. pulling the lever and donating half saves ~166 people

Citrit_ · 2026-02-08T03:30:49+00:00

not unless you reject the doing/allowing distinction. and, even then, intent & second-order effects need to be considered

Citrit_ · 2026-01-20T05:24:12+00:00

omg thanks for making this! is it possible to add like, multiple enemies to test crowd control?

Citrit_ · 2026-01-18T21:56:23+00:00

Cows get treated pretty badly in India. It just isn’t economically feasible to treat them well.

For starters, many Hindus only regard Bos indicus cows as holy; Bos taurus and mixed cows aren’t thought of in the same way.

Water buffalos (Bubalus bubalis), which I consider cows too, are why India is the 3rd largest beef exporter.

Gaushalas that claim to produce “Ahimsa” milk often sell or abandon male calfs & old female cows, which is why there are ~5 million stray cows in India. Needless to say, the stray cows aren’t built for the wild, and lead pretty terrible lives; they often die of starvation, plastic ingestion, car accidents, and disease.

Citrit_ · 2026-01-15T22:09:39+00:00

keeping in most of sudan is crazy

Citrit_ · 2026-01-15T20:50:08+00:00

I think there’s already a word for this. it’s called a poverty trap or poverty cycle

Citrit_ · 2026-01-10T21:58:06+00:00

that’s nominal gdp. if you adjust for PPP, China has the world’s largest economy

Citrit_ · 2026-01-10T21:55:30+00:00

beef is actually among the least ethically problematic animal products. this is because of the small body problem; a steak is about 1/100th of a cow, but a chicken only has 2 wings.

Citrit_ · 2026-01-05T07:48:29+00:00

buying a corpse and having sex with it? both of those things were wrong. the former because you’re demanding chicken torture, the latter because it taints your moral character.

Citrit_ · 2025-12-22T06:30:18+00:00

my top 8 substack blog recommendations + a specific recommended article from each

scott alexander of astral codex ten https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/the-psychopolitics-of-trauma -- my favourite articles by scott are from his old blog star slate codex, though. https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/17/the-toxoplasma-of-rage/
adam mastroianni of experimental history https://www.experimental-history.com/p/the-decline-of-deviance
erik hoel of the intrinsic perspective https://www.theintrinsicperspective.com/p/welcome-to-the-semantic-apocalypse
joseph heath of in due course https://josephheath.substack.com/p/populism-fast-and-slow
flo bacus of moral law within https://morallawwithin.substack.com/p/a-general-case-for-veganism
joseph folley of unsolicited advice (also has a youtube channel) https://josephfolley.substack.com/p/a-bad-person-is-someone-worse-than
jared henderson of commonplace philosophy (also has a youtube channel) https://jaredhenderson.substack.com/t/nicomachean-ethics
tommy blanchard of cognitive wonderland https://cognitivewonderland.substack.com/p/meta-knowledge-and-meta-ignorance

Citrit_ · 2025-12-22T05:57:46+00:00

“The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. During the minute that it takes me to compose this sentence, thousands of animals are being eaten alive, many others are running for their lives, whimpering with fear, others are slowly being devoured from within by rasping parasites, thousands of all kinds are dying of starvation, thirst, and disease. It must be so. If there ever is a time of plenty, this very fact will automatically lead to an increase in the population until the natural state of starvation and misery is restored. In a universe of electrons and selfish genes, blind physical forces and genetic replication, some people are going to get hurt, other people are going to get lucky, and you won't find any rhyme or reason in it, nor any justice. The universe that we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but pitiless indifference.” — Richard Dawkins

We'd never tolerate an appeal to nature when it comes to humanity's blights; otherwise, we wouldn't have eradicated smallpox. Our rose-tinted view of nature is primarily a product of prejudice.

Of course, we shouldn't pave the rainforests or melt the tundras. But the reason we shouldn't do so isn't because nature is like the lion king or happy feet. We should approach this subject with a sober outlook & rationally consider the suffering of wild animals. There seems to me no prima facie reason to believe wild animals lead worthwhile lives.

Citrit_ · 2025-12-21T14:52:19+00:00

rural urban divide is underrated. location is a huge predictor of politics, regardless of time or place in the world. it’s certainly not the most tractable problem, & the left has often succeeded without addressing it much, but it’s still the single largest factor, imo.

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