I don’t think this is real, mostly because I don’t think PETA has a sense of humor. I don’t think they’re capable of funny.
I would more expect PETA to unironically tell someone off for calling a person a type of animal as an insult.
as they should
Yeah that’s real iguana behavior.
“Name one cow you’re friends with” is such as asshole response to an industry that sometimes treats animals worse than Nazi concentration camps.
I’ve been seeing vegan defenders get upvoted in recent time on lemmy, did something change? I remember vegans getting quite negative feedback a few months ago only
The way you ask this makes me think you are a troll that wants to pick a fight.
Just in case you are not a troll: “vegan defenders” and “vegans” are no homogenous groups. There are a lot of different individuals that are vegan. And they do this for a bunch of different reasons.
Also your “vegan defenders”: Defending against what? This implies that there are people who think veganism should be eradicated. This would be an extremly stupid opinion to have. You don’t have to be vegan yourself but at least let other people live their life.
I honestly was being a bit of an ass for no reason, I do apologise. I’m a vegan myself, but only converted a few months ago. I’m just now depressed when I see how negatively people comment on anything vegan online, and spread misinfo frequently. Also I should’ve said “vegan-ism defenders”
People get paid a salary by meat/dairy industries to go online and astroturf against veganism. Its just part of being vegan online
I don’t know about online, but in my day to day life most people who talk shit about vegans are exactly the sort of people you’d imagine; edgelords who think masculinity is congruent with being a dick.
FWIW I’ve come across multiple “PETA is the punchline” memes on Lemmy over the past few days, after having seen none that I remember. Not to jump to conclusions or claim conspiracy but I had already noted it to myself earlier today. I concur, the way some people approach the subject can be very depressing.
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PETA euthanizes thousands of animals per year.
Your comment is just trying to cause trouble. There is no extra context. Find something better to do dude. Insinuating that PETA is bad like the animal farming industry is just sad and pathetic.
PETA euthanizes animals because there are simply too many to house and feed. At least they offer a relatively painless death, compared to other methods commonly employed.
https://www.peta.org/news/euthanasia/PETA euthanizes animals because there are simply too many to house and feed.
PETA euthanizes well taken care of pets that it steals from owners.
Seems to be a false dilemma. They ignore the idea that you can eat your friends.
“I want to cook with you”
“No, I meant as an ingredient. Sorry, English isn’t my first language”
They say my hunger’s a problem
They tell me to curb my apetite
“you look ravishing”
“why thank you”
“no i want to cook you and eat you. baste yourself with this for the next 30 minutes while i get the oven right”
“Why does your shampoo feel so greasy and… salty? Is that fresh rosemary, oregano, thyme?”
“Yeah it’s my chef’s conditioner, just leave it on it’ll do you real good”
Oh there’s fresh rosemary on everyone here we all got bushes of it.
This might make your friends feel uncomfortable.
Not for long.
Some of my friends enjoy it
May I introduce you to Rotenburg Cannibal?
I think I should not have explored that rabbit hole. JFC there’s some twisted people out there.
TBF most animals are much nicer than humans.
Humans are literally animals. Most are nothing more than that.
You and me, baby, ain’t nothing but mammals…
What are the ones who are something more than that? What are they?
People.
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Hello Clarisse…
Yes, when you’re an owl the mice seem nice.
Most animals are insects =)
(About 10 quintillion, apparently: https://www.si.edu/spotlight/buginfo/bugnos )
most animals are much nicer than humans.
Man-eating animals are NOT nicer than humans.
Gentle reminder that the intellectual distance between an average human and a cow is smaller than it is between the average human and anyone who isn’t a total fucking idiot.
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Nonsense. There’s incontrovertible evidence that 2.4 million years ago, the non-human creatures on our family tree were already smarter than any non-human animal roaming the earth today.
The fact that you think this has any bearing on what I said underscores my point.
Oh boy, a post tangentially related to vegans. Who else is ready for a very sane and normal comment sectiiioooonnn!?!?!?
Op: Makes post about PETA
Godric: OH GOD I HAVE TO BE OFFENDED ABOUT VEGANS
everyone else: Who the fuck said anything about Vegans?!
I assumed Godric was anticipating “very normal” anti-vegan comments XD
Vegans will have history side with them. However, farming and pastoralism is a way of life for many people. It’s a job passed down from generation to generation. It’s one of the world’s oldest job. Unlike fossil fuels where there is no sentimental attachment and we can tell people to reskill, farming isn’t. Some cultures and communities centre their identity to farming and pastoralism. How do we convince farmers and herders to give up the practice because it is extremely damaging not just to the environment, but to the entire human species?
Even though farmers do worry about the climate change making seasons becoming less predictable and yields becoming less productive, they are also the same people who complain and felt hindered by climate change policies, so they vote for the right wing parties that provide easy answer band aid solutions, but have far more dire and longer term consequences.
The problem is capitalism Fuck meat industry
Blame capitalism as much as we want, but in this case it isn’t some nebulous boogeyman. Who are the people supporting capitalism? Who are the people selling meat to the meat industry? The same people who I am talking about. There is naïveté that farmers don’t have a hand in exacerbating climate change. Holistically, we are all to blame.
PETA can only take the easy and lame options, which is why they went after my mom
I stopped eating almost any beef after discovering the cute cow gifs subreddit. They can be so puppy like! They’re also huge methane machines and having fewer cows would be good for the environment.
On the other hand, I crave a good pot roast maybe once a year.
Edit: and I can name my mother’s favorite childhood cow and the cow my grandpa let me name because we shared a birthday.
Cows when young are absolutely puppy like. We had a pet calf when I was a kid named Softy. My stepmom insisted we buy him and bring him home when we visited a rural county fair because he was so cute. He ended up thinking that he was one of our dogs for a while, even played fetch (poorly heh). Once he got big (and admittedly mean as hell), someone ended up stealing him from his pasture while we were away for the day. Poor Softy.
I unfortunately like beef too much. But I know the impact the meat industry has and try to reduce my intake. I was down to two meals with meat a month before I got a job that wouldn’t let me be picky.
Maybe we should have a specific holiday like Thanksgiving but for cows. I vote for St Patrick’s Day. Beyond meat and black beans are cool and good but you can pry corned beef out of my cold dead fingers.
I have a soft spot for cabbage food, so I’d happily celebrate St Patrick’s with some corned beef cabbage rolls/gołąbki.
We should eat snakes on St. Patricks.
how about labor day or memorial day? they are typically good grilling/smoking/barbecue holidays, and i could throw on a brisket or something
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That was…well done.
A rare joke
I, for one, think it’s great that PETA is branching out and disappointing somebody else’s parents for a change.
Wow, a lot of peta hate today on lemmy. I take it they said something that hurt, or are we just putting the left in its place again?
PETA is to leftism what JK Rowling is to feminism.
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I thought she was calling herself Robert Galbraith these days. Which is a man’s name.
Yeah, that’ll show her…
PETA is basically just a concern trolling organization. Their version of animal welfare is to murder animals that come into their shelters.
Also, it’s hilarious to watch them defend themselves and try to attack a group of people that ACTUALLY CARES FOR ANIMALS instead of just playing at rule changes (and murdering animals out in their care).
PETA can get fucked with the business end of a rusty rake.
Slow down they already said there’s a lot of PETA hate on Lemmy today they didn’t ask anyone to prove it.
Because PETA is a bastard of an organization.
They picked a fight with Umamusume (tw: a bit gory).
Even if I were vegan, I wouldn’t want to be associated with PETA.
The race-horse-girl game is not realistic about animal cruelty in real horse racing.
You think this is an attack on the race-horse-girl game?
The devs should add a human-inspired character to the game, give it a shirt vaguely resembling the PETA lego, and make it have the worst stats out of all the characters
If there’s ever an opportunity for someone to copy Edmund McMillen with how he made fun of PETA with their Tofu Boy parody, it would be this.
Only if you have to put down the PETA person whenever they lose a race or mildly injure themselves
They’ve always been a lightning rod for vegan hate. That’s kind of their thing.
I actually have reduced my beef consumption quite a bit. More for my personal health reasons than any other reason though.
Hahah as if peta has friends.
The world is just one tandoori soya chaap away from turning vegetarian forever. Remember that.
Hitting a disingenuous reply guy with a lazy zinger: Based
Hitting a disingenuous reply guy with a lazy zinger when you’re an animal rights org: Cringe, loathsome, objectionable
