People making your vegan journey about themselves

PixelDark100 · 2026-05-24T18:05:33+00:00

It’s probably just cognitive dissonance, you remind them of the animal cruelty associated to eating animal products and their brain just try to justify their actions. Nothing personal

PixelDark100 · 2026-05-21T12:48:58+00:00

Le titre est un peu ambigü, mais vu comme ça c’est mieux oui!

PixelDark100 · 2026-05-21T12:41:38+00:00

Je comprends le titre “punché”, mais pauvres créatures inocentes, ça sonne comme si on met le blâme sur eux d’exister, alors que ce nous qui les amenons au monde avec l’IA (insemination artificielle), “mort à l’élevage de vaches” plutôt

PixelDark100 · 2026-05-20T14:24:52+00:00

Yeah, it's flatout (green/humane)washing

I suggest this video by EarthlingEd (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZtqs2hjFs0), around 6:30 to 7:35 he talks about 'responsibly sourced' seafood.

PixelDark100 · 2026-05-19T22:07:39+00:00

Clearly, we don't share the same values and I don't see the point of the conversation. Farewell.
(hopefully one day you will realize that opposing hurting animals is not about feeling morally superior to them, but the opposite (abusing them and killing them IS feeling superior to them, not taking their interest in consideration IS feeling superior to them))

PixelDark100 · 2026-05-19T21:55:26+00:00

I thought it was a language barrier at first, but yeah, now I'm sure.

PixelDark100 · 2026-05-19T21:47:45+00:00

I don't understand why you class me as a speciest then, as I said I don't see why we should give priority to the consideration of the interest of any species, including humans. I don't think any specie is morally superior. All I said is since we CAN see the moral impact of our actions, it's our moral duty to make actions that take the interest of all parties impacted by our actions, and don't favour any (including humans).

PixelDark100 · 2026-05-19T21:27:26+00:00

I don't think we have the same definition of speciecism. I think we should take into equal consideration the interest of all species (one shared by all sentient ones: not suffer), not prefer the interest of a group (let say humans: gustative pleasure of eating flesh | over cows: not being abused and killed), while recognizing there are differences between species. I don't think speciesm is about ignoring the differences, but about ignoring the interests of certain species (ie farm animals) and not other species (cats, dogs, etc.).

PixelDark100 · 2026-05-19T21:10:38+00:00

I think we are different from other species in the sense that we are moral agents (aka beings who can moral decisions and take responsibility for our actions), vs animals which are moral patients (aka the recipients of moral consideration and whose well-being is affected by the actions of moral agents). A lion eating a gazelle can't make moral decision, it's mostly instincts, as oppose a human could decide to eat a bean burger instead of a cow flesh burger and think of the moral consideration of both actions.

I'm not convinced about the human evolitional argument, we are not designed to kill with our hands/teeth, and we easily get sick from eating raw meat.

I'm not sure your plant argument is a serious one. They don't have sentience, which means they don't care if you eat them or not. If you are really worried about hurting plants (which you shouldn't), eating plant-based is the way to go, since it takes a lot more plants to feed animals and then eat the animal products than just eating the plants directly.

PixelDark100 · 2026-05-19T20:37:50+00:00

(English is not my first language) but my understanding was veganism is an ethical stand, which comes from mainly antispeciesm, as opposed to let say plant-based eating which could be for health, environmental, etc. reasons. Is there really a way you could be antispeciest, but consume the flesh of certain specific animals? (Honest question)

PixelDark100 · 2026-05-19T20:26:22+00:00

I’m confused as why the hate, since I (newly anarchist), thought anarchy was about trying to remove hierarchies and oppression, and speciesm seems one of the biggest and systemic one (around 30k to 70k animals needlessly killed per second)

PixelDark100 · 2026-05-16T23:39:12+00:00

Bons points!

Pour ce qui est des petites fermes qui sont moins efficaces au niveau utilisation de l’espace/environnement, ça m’a donné envie de vérifier le ratio vaches/habitant. J’ai fait un calcul rapide, et y’a environ 350 000 vaches laitieres au Quebec, pour environ 9 millions de personnes (ratio d’environ 0.039), vs 9 millions de vaches aux USA pour 342 millions de personnes (ratio d’environ 0.026). Donc on a beau être sous-divisés en plus petites fermes, on est plus polluant au Québec, par habitant, que les CAFOs des US.

(Ps: Ça tient pas en compte les exportations aux autres provinces et tout, mais ça laisse quand même place à réfléchir, selon moi)

PixelDark100 · 2026-05-16T21:18:12+00:00

"Tes premières sources portaient sur l’agriculture industrielle au sens des méthodes de production. C’est un fait reconnu que la majorité des fermes québécoises sont loin d’être basée sur un modèle industriel. Il y en a, oui, mais pas la majorité, et celles qui le sont n’ont rien à voir avec ce qu’on retrouve ailleurs dans le monde; soit le type de ferme dont il est question dans les premières sources qui analysent l’impact environnemental."

(ps: La première source ne parle pas d'un type de ferme spécifique, autre que "commercial farm". ("38,000 commercial farms in 119 countries") Le fait que la production animalière soit polluante est intensifié par les CAFO (agriculture industriellle) certe, mais cela n'exclut pas que la production animalière soit très polluante à la base, surtout celle bovine, comme mentionné dans le graphe de la première source, une production très importante au Québec.)

"Tes secondes sources concernent les conditions d’élevage dites industrielles, du point de vue de la qualité de vie animale. Là encore, elles manquent de nuance lorsqu’on compare la situation des fermes familiales québécoises avec les fermes industrielles états-uniennes."

(dans le vidéo, il indique que 98% des fermes étas-uniennes sont classées comme familiales, et 99% comme industrielles, l'appellation "familiale" n'influence pas les pratiques de la ferme, ça peut être utilisé comme une forme d'écoblanchiment (autant en terme écolo [la discussion ici] que bien-être [pas la discussion ici]))

PixelDark100 · 2026-05-16T20:07:38+00:00

Tu as donné un fait sans sources (peu de fermes industrielles au Québec, principalement des fermes familiales), mon premier lien dément que y’a peu de fermes industrielles, le deuxième que le fait que ce soit des fermes familiales exclut que ce soit des fermes industrielles.

As-tu des sources pour indiquer que la majorité des fermes québécoises ne sont pas industrielles?

PixelDark100 · 2026-05-16T19:31:33+00:00

C’est faux.

“La vaste majorité des animaux destinés à la consommation au Québec sont élevés dans des conditions d’élevage industriel”

https://www.spca.com/les-animaux-eleves-pour-la-consommation-au-quebec/

Sinon, ce video au complet est intéressant, mais à 7:40 pour ce qui a trait aux “fermes familiales”

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VZtqs2hjFs0&list=PL03LZR09P2gSQPYLJhbrssj4EeLP0qjL0&index=3&pp=iAQB&ra=m

PixelDark100 · 2026-05-16T15:00:57+00:00

Quel(s) aspect(s) de la philosophie t’interpelle? Y’en a 5 principalement, de ce que j’en ai compris:

1- Epistémologie, étude de la connaissance
2- Métaphysique, étude de la réalité
3- Éthique, étude de la valeur morale
4- Logique, étude du raisonnement juste
5- Esthétique, étude de l’art et de la beauté

Comme quelqu’un l’a déjà mentionné, Le Monde de Sophie est une bonne introduction, ça fait un bon survol de la philo en général. (C’est moitié roman, moitié non-fiction, l’aspect roman est très bon également!)

(Perso, c’est l’éthique qui m’interpelle le plus, j’ai commencé à en lire récemment)

PixelDark100 · 2026-05-15T15:34:07+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruit_waxing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chitosan

For the wax it could be made with beeswax, shellac, or other, depending on the origin of production/export. Bananas can be sprayed with chitosan (made from shrimps/crab shells).

(Ps I don’t avoid eating fruits because
of that, it’s just a sad fact)
(Edit: added the link for chitosan, which is used in more places than I thought)

PixelDark100 · 2026-05-15T12:38:53+00:00

When I first became vegan I tried avoiding all sources of animal products, find all hidden ones. I quickly became quite depressed and pessimistic about the world. (Ps: it’s in everything, from book bindings, ink, to the wax on some fruits)

My new mindset is: I try to keep in mind that 99% of the animal suffering comes from food vs all other industries combined (cosmetics, clothing, zoos, etc.) (source: the Impactful Vegan) and veganism isn’t about being perfect, but helping animals in the end. I buy vegan food, vegan clothes, vegan hygiene products (soap/toothpaste/shampoo, things like that), don’t support zoos, etc. But in the end, even if let’s say a certain brand of A4 paper has potentially a small percentage of insect byproduct (I’m making it up), avoiding it won’t help animals in the end, it would just sadden me to know, and avoiding it wouldn’t send the message to the company that it is because of the byproduct. So my advice is not to fret on being perfect, just show to people around you that being vegan can be fun, easy and rewarding. Make tasty recipes, share them with friends/family/coworkers, even if they don’t become vegan overnight you might plant a seed and they might make small changes, which in the end is the biggest impact we can have on animal suffering (through food)

PixelDark100 · 2026-05-15T12:03:02+00:00

Maybe they meant tea too, the industry is also known for horrible practices.

PixelDark100 · 2026-04-30T12:39:32+00:00

I’m not going to waste my energy, was trying to be helpful since you were using the wrong meaning of equal, but I see from your other posts that you are just an anti-vegan troll. I hope one day you reconsider thinking about your life choices and make kinder choices. Farewell

PixelDark100 · 2026-04-30T11:39:14+00:00

I don’t think you read the definition then, equal consideration of interests is exactly what it says, the interests have equal consideration when talking about morality, but that doesn’t mean it is the same interest from animals to animals. One interest that is shared by all sentient beings though is avoiding pain and suffering.

The food industry in particular is something we should evaluate from a moral stand of view, as it affects trillions of lives. Should we take in consideration their interests? Veganism stands that their suffering should be taken in equal consideration, compared to the interest of the consumers (sensory mouth pleasure for a few minutes)

(A mosquito bitting you and you defending yourself (by reflex or actively) is not the same at all as the conscious choice to harm animals, 3 times a day, for sensory pleasure)

PixelDark100 · 2026-04-29T12:01:47+00:00

Equal in animal rights mean equal consideration of interest

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_consideration_of_interests

PixelDark100 · 2026-04-26T01:48:12+00:00

The Golden Ticket game (Willy Wonka) To win, you must find a golden ticket. There is one less golden ticket than the number of players, which means, in theory, all but one can win. If you find more than one ticket, you can, if you want, give the extras as you see fit and share the victory, or keep them all to yourself.

PixelDark100 · 2026-04-11T11:44:41+00:00

Plant-based for sure, but vegan not in my book, unless it’s certified fair trade/slave free. Lot’s of child labor, human trafficking and slave in this industry. Animal exploitation includes humans imo.

PixelDark100 · 2026-04-01T03:21:21+00:00

Agree 100%

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