• David Benfell, Ph.D.@hcommons.social
      7·
      1 year ago

      @nm @vegan

      Bingo. “Your” cow goes to slaughter.

      And yes, this is to acknowledge the other subthread here that this advertisement supports a notion of nonhuman animals as property, thus is not at all animal rights friendly. I leave to others whether a #vegan can support this—I certainly wouldn’t.

  • Track_Shovel@slrpnk.netEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    landscape Regen

    Soil building

    Biodiversity

    While cattle can certainly help with these things, even small scale ops are often poorly managed. I’ve seen a fuck ton of over grazed and compacted pasture

  • fluffplush@lemmy.worldEnglish
    51·
    1 year ago

    “Our meat program” Literal support for the corpseflesh industry isn’t “vegan”. If you want to keep animals away from slaughter, support actual sanctuaries that aren’t threatening to kill anyone, or take a bolt cutter and break the cages and fences yourself.

  • Megawatt@veganism.social
    3·
    1 year ago

    @nm @vegan Imagine a dog meat farmer did this and said to the non-dog eaters they will spare this dog and not kill them for meat if you pay them a monthly fee.

  • Lodra@programming.devEnglish
    26·
    1 year ago

    The comments here had me expecting a Save Toby type of thing. Look it up! It was both funny and quite messed up! Much worse than this.

    Personally, I’m seeing this a little differently. Small animal farms don’t exactly earn a lot of money. If people are only willing to pay for meat, then those animals really have to be slaughtered and sold. There’s no financially viable alternative. Especially given that it costs real money to care for a single large animal like a cow or horse. I can confidently say that $50 per month is quite low for the cost of a single cow.

    Don’t eat meat! That’s the solution, right? If the world stops eating meat, then those farm raised animals won’t be slaughtered for food. Great! But then those same farms still need to produce food and won’t carry live stock. Which means that those animals simply wouldn’t exist going forward. Lots more plants and fast fewer animals. There are other reasons why that’s probably a good thing but it’s a tangent.

    If you want these animals to be farm raised and simply live a long, happy life, then paying a farm to keep them seems like a good option to me.

    • kttnpunk@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      You don’t get it, this is a scam to get vegans to form a emotional attachment with a young cow and it will be used as leverage. Independent animal farms are a tiny minority and especially under pressure to neglect a animal’s needs for profit in a industry that has normalized it to a terrifying extent.

      • Lodra@programming.devEnglish
        13·
        1 year ago

        Oh sure, very possibly or even likely. But what’s the alternative? As far as I can see, it’s either these animals being butchered for profit or basically going extinct. All bad options

        Edit: I went back to read the title from the image. The “vegan” label on there is very pointed. Seems derogatory.

        • fluffplush@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          The alternative is not breeding living beings just to imprison and exploit them. Going extinct isn’t “bad”, especially when the alternative is what we currently inflict on them. That said, you can always support sanctuaries. You know those places taking in animals that specifically don’t have a literal “meat-program”?