“We likely can’t stop child abuse but we can make it less cruel, let’s just do it on less sentient children”. What kind of crazy take is this article? “Dairy = medium bad” 🤮.

This has nothing to do with veganism. Welfarism is exploitation with lipstick.

!Nb6? Even if you meant Nb7 or Nb5, then black Rxg8+ followed by white’s Rxg8+ is not mate in 2. I duplicated the ponies so it’s easier to see, even in this position is not mate !<

The jury decides on a verdict (guilty/not guilty) of the crimes they’re being accused. If guilty, then the judge will define their sentence (usually following some guidelines) in between the minimum and maximum established by law.

My most respect to activists that take direct action, but we should protect ourselves so we can have a continuing impact.

This type of activism can be good because it makes the news, but if there’s no follow up the impact is limited. Especially when the abusers get to push this narrative:

Petaluma Poultry has said that DxE is an extremist group that is intent on destroying the animal agriculture industry.

I hope she appeals and wins, condemning someone that was saving sick animals from being mistreated is crazy.

Why do you state it’s a contrary view? It’s not like OP’s article title is “The myth of the omnivore caveman”.

Unit 731 and the Stanford prison experiment helped us advance in our understanding of physiology and psychology, so what?

As I’ve said in the above comment, hand pollination is not the only alternative. Fixing this problem is a bridge we’ll cross when most people are on board with veganism.

Lower density only means lower production of the usable land remains the same. Which would not be the case if the world became vegan: https://ourworldindata.org/land-use-diets

Thanks for conceding. Now to your new point: once the majority of people are vegan, we can focus on those systems that can be improved. Currently the majority does not even care about animal exploitation, so there’s very little value in trying to change systems that don’t depend on animal exploitation.

Those two counter examples that I provided aren’t all possibilities to replace open pollination. Surely experts in the field can come up with better solutions once this problem actually becomes a worry in the minds of the majority.

Oh honey, I have no idea

Do those crops depend on transportation of pollinators? To me it seems like they don’t.

By your own admission, there are natural pollinators. We can also manually pollinate them, which reinforces my point that systems that *contain* exploitation should be improved.

Animal manure as fertilizer in farming. We can use fertilizers that don’t depend on animals to be made.

It’s a common viewpoint among vegans that systems that depend on animal exploitation should be abolished. On the other hand, systems that contain animal exploitation should be improved.

I’ll give two examples with human animals so it can be clear: Slavery? Should be abolished. People getting ran over and killed by cars? We should improve that.

I thought that chocolate brand only had vegan dark chocolate, so cool to see that they found a milk substitute! Will try to find that cookies variation on the market.

I agree that veganism is about the animals, but why do we care about them? Is it not their consciousness that make them morally significant?

I see no distinction between conscious beings, be them from this world of not, carbon-made or not.

Btw I’m not trying to create AI-ganism or anything like that. My purpose with this post was to help non vegans that care about this problem make the same connection with the animals they exploit.

It’s not about feeling pain, is about their will to live.

If the argument is only about pain/suffering, then ‘ethical’ meat becomes a thing and people would still ignore the being’s will to live.

Once the machine has a conscience, they should have their will respected.

There’s already a scaled sort, that will boost the ranking of communities you follow ;). I hated (not) seeing downvoted posts on vegan communities.

There’s nothing stopping a malicious user from doing that right now. Be aware that anyone who wants can already see your votes.

We already depend on trusting instances for a lot of what’s going on here, I don’t see why we shouldn’t be able to defederate untrusted ones.

1. Currently, any admin can modify any local user activity, can’t they?
2. Not really, your local instance may still hold the vote data for validation. And therefore could be ported and resigned.
3. Don’t see the problem.
4. Today, each instance decides whomever they want federation with. The ones who decide the criteria should be the same ones who decide whom the instance federates with.