2y ago

Is jellyfish vegan?

They don’t have a brain really and kinda just float there. Do they even feel pain?

268 comments

- Plants are also living creatures, but don't tell the Vegans.
  
  If you want to minimize plant death, going vegan is still the right move.
  Most of the crops we grow go to feeding animals that people eat.
  
  This is definitely the best take on veganism.
  
  I don't really care about minimizing plant death. I'm not Vegan or Vegetarian, nor will I be in the future. I just made a joke.
  
  They told me Lemmy would be more leftist, why am I still seeing 0 IQ vegan jokes
  
  Carnists are grappling with cognitive dissonance.
  
  How did you find this year old post lol
  
  Thanks to the advanced Voyager search allowing me to find the key word vegan to do some online activism.
  
  That's lemmy.ml. I think most of us just want this to be a place with less politics and extremism on either side because it's exhausting.
  
  What's more extreme: not wanting to harm and exploit animals or killing and exploiting them to use them as products?
  I think it's pretty clear.
  
  The former, by definition, because the vast majority of society does the latter. Extremists always try to reframe themselves as the moderate ones and say mainstream society are the extremists instead, so I'm not surprised you're saying this.
  
  Just because it's always said doesn't mean it isn't sometimes true. Can't you think of examples of views that were fringe but became the moral baseline?
  
  Can't you think of examples of views that were fringe but became the moral baseline?
  Yes, I can, but I can't think of any that were extreme despite being the most widely held views in a given society, because that's an oxymoron. Once something becomes a widely held view it is no longer extreme.
  
  Using violence towards the animals is extremist.
  
  We want to be rid of the poop wars
  
  Plants also react to being harmed, so it's arguable they don't feel pain.
  
  I remember reading that some species of plants release a specific chemical or audio frequency (I can't remember which) in response to being cut down, and this chemical is detected by other nearby plants that cause them to become stiffer or something along those lines. Whether that meana the plants feel pain or not, there isn't anything conclusive. I think it would be pretty hard to feel pain without a nervous system, but its possible that what constitutes pain doesn't need a nervous system or pain receptors at all. Im not a scientific expert, I just tried to be funny.
  
  Dunno about funny, but insightful and empathetic, yes. Cheers!
  
  People from Vega will object to that.
  
  plants are not "creatures", neither are animals.
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  both are indeed living evolutures ;)
  
  Do you often write in HTML?
  
  there was something wrong about formatting. Without the HTML code my lines were all huddled into one long line 🤷
  
  How would you define creature?
  
  The word creature is theistic. The person you're responding to is being pedantic, but isn't wrong.