• Machinist@lemmy.world
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    Here on Lemmy I’ve been accused of torturing and raping animals as I’m unashamedly an omnivore. I’m a hunter as well.

    I worry about animal suffering enough that we’ve bought a small farm and hope to raise all our own meat. I’ve actually worked on factory farms and know firsthand the suffering of animals under that system.

    However, there are fanatical vegans on Lemmy that do a fantastic job of driving away those of us sympathetic to vegan ethics and morality.

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      Here on Lemmy I’ve been accused of torturing and raping animals

      I’ve actually worked on factory farms

      Depending on what all you did to the animals at those factory farms, you might have been torturing and raping animals. I did horseback riding for like 7 years of my life. I don’t deny I was an animal abuser. The only thing I can do about it now is never get on a horses back again. Denying I was ever doing abuse won’t help me.

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        RAPE! RAPE! MURDER!!!1!

        This bullshit doesn’t help your cause at all. I’m the rare omnivore that is actually sympathetic to moral issues of factory farmig and animal suffering.

        You need to like unfuck your head and try to turn down whatever preaching you’re listening to. That’s some bad religion that’s got ahold of you.

        You’re no different than those ‘pro-life’ whack jobs.

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      Here on Lemmy I’ve been accused of torturing and raping animals as I’m unashamedly an omnivore

      I’m sorry to hear that. Online discourse does get extremely personal, particularly when people don’t know each other.

      I’ve actually worked on factory farms and know firsthand the suffering of animals under that system

      Well then… not to be rude but that means you’ve literally been complicit in torturing and raping animals.

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        There it is.

        So, as an ignorant teenager, cleaning chicken houses of rotten corpses and chicken shit for $5/hr: I was actually fucking those chickens? I was kid chicken raper? The steers I raised in elementary school, I suppose I fucked them as well.

        See, that’s the thing. I saw how bad it was and have worked and saved for many years so I will no longer have to participate in a system that involves industrial suffering.

        But nope, I’m totally such a raper. Fuck you and your sanctimonious bullshit. You don’t know me or my circumstances. I know plenty of Southern Baptists and Church of Christ that spew this same shit. Y’all would get along real well, if you only listened to your tones and didn’t pay attention to the words.

        Fucking fanatics can suck my fucking balls, all y’all the same.

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          So, as an ignorant teenager, cleaning chicken houses of rotten corpses and chicken shit for $5/hr: I was actually fucking those chickens? I was kid chicken raper?

          I would like to think “I saw the horrors and really learned something” would be the appropriate response, not “I saw the horrors, so now I’m immune to criticism for eating meat.”

          But I do begin to see why vegans upset you so much.

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            If you’re trying to make a point for there not being as many “crazy vegans” on the internet, well, you’re fucking it up.