• TheUniqueOne
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    -61 year ago

    Except they blatantly do. Sorry your anecdotal experience doesn’t add up with the scientific evidence it must be wrong.

    • awsamation
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      61 year ago

      Is it still anecdotal if literally any farmer will tell you the same? Because they will.

      A surprisingly large amount of effort goes into trying to keep the livestock from hurting themselves or getting themselves killed. That’s inevitable when essentially turn off natural selection, they end up losing any sense of self preservation. And why not, they do have multiple humans who’s entire career centers on keeping them alive until they’re ready for slaughter.

      • @[email protected]
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        -11 year ago

        enslaved animals try to commit suicide after being forcefully impregnated and kicked around and having their children stolen from them immediately after birth

        wow i fucking wonder why dude

        • awsamation
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          41 year ago

          They live more comfortably than you do. In an environment literally designed to maximize their ability to grow.

          Y’all continually fail to understand that farmers have a direct financial incentive to keep these animals happy and healthy. Stressed animals don’t grow nearly as well as happy animals, and small animals don’t make money.

          Taking proper care of the animals is more profitable in the long run, even if you assume that all farmers are heartless monsters who enjoy watching needless suffering (we aren’t by the way).

          • @[email protected]
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            we spend a lot of time trying to stop our animals from committing suicide

            they’re happy! they love it here actually and you are jealous.

            • awsamation
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              -11 year ago

              Just like how parents spend most of their time preventing their toddlers from committing suicide.

              They’re stupid, not suicidal.

      • TheUniqueOne
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        Are they in danger from hurting themself because they are stressed at their confinement maybe? They are slaughtered at barely a fraction of their natural lifespan.

        • @ImFresh3x
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          31 year ago

          Dude, cows live in giant fields grazing on beautiful rolling hillsides.

          • TheUniqueOne
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            01 year ago

            Factory farming is widespread and constitutes the overwhelming majority in output of the dairy and meat industry. Not that cows are there for you to use anyway.

        • awsamation
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          11 year ago

          They live more comfortably than you do. Food and water freely available, plenty of space, other animals to socialize. No worries or responsibilities, not even a real concept of the outside world. The farm is all they’ve ever known, and it’s all they ever need to know.

          • TheUniqueOne
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            -21 year ago

            Until you kill them decades before their natural lifespans. Or until you rape them and steal their children.

    • elgordofordo86
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      31 year ago

      They are hearty for sure and that can be seen as an urge or will to live. Animals are dumb and have a shocking lack of self preservation. Are you talking about conscious ‘I want to live, I better not do that’ or ‘I will find a way to live in my circumstances’?

      • TheUniqueOne
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        -71 year ago

        Animals experience pleasure and work to avoid pain. They have preferences and wishes and societies.

        • @ImFresh3x
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          41 year ago

          So did the animals in the ecosystem that go wiped out to make factory farms that make fruits, vegetables, coffee, etc. There’s no innocent way to feed oneself in a factory goods based society. Only slightly less guilty ways.

          • TheUniqueOne
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            -21 year ago

            You know the majority of grain and such is used as animal feed. To minimize suffering animal exploitation has to end no using animals for food, clothing, research or other goods.