dairyisntscary:

hills ppl rly need to stop trying to die on

• Humans are physiologically omnivores. Not herbivores. Not frugivores. We evolved with cooking and tool use allowing us to not have to use teeth and claws, but we are omnivores.
• Dogs and cats should not be vegan. Not even if they can technically “survive”.
• Farmers can love their animals and eat them. Anyone can love animals and eat them. People are complex, their perspectives are complex, their feelings are complex. Eating meat does not mean someone is void of compassion. If you go around claiming this you’re wrong. Every time I see this I roll my eyes and stop listening because I absolutely love my cows.
• Exposè videos and animal rights websites are not reputable sources. They’re highly manipulative, often staged, and they severely anthromorphosize animals. Many of their points are false. Things are never that bad or dramatic. The most reputable sources are from actual scientific studies, vets, and people in the field. Not everyone involved with farm animals professionally is a liar.
• Cowspiracy is false. Only 9% of US ghg emissions come from agriculture, and the majority of those emissions are from nitrous oxide from fertilizers for plants. I think 18% is from livestock. Sustainable animal agriculture is both possible and necessary. Around the world energy is the worst culprit. Agriculture apparently accounts for 24% including deforestation, crops, and animals but not including carbon sequestering.
• Animals are not cognitively the same as people. They do not need to be treated the same.
• Most farmers aren’t breaking even let alone making a profit and have to work outside the farm. They do the work because they enjoy it.
• Animals are fed mostly leftovers from the biofuel and food industries. Many of the crops grown for them are the crops grown for you. They aren’t stealing feed from people’s mouths. The environmental harm caused by plant ag is on you too, and in some situations it’s more harmful than animal ag.