• x00z@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      I think the most basic respect you can offer an animal is to just not kill it.

      • JcbAzPx@lemmy.world
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        15 hours ago

        That should apply to all living things. Kind of makes it hard to survive if we do that, though.

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          14 hours ago

          There’s a goldilocks zone where our own individual longevity can be met while simultaneously causing the least harm to all life, within practicality. That zone being within the territory of the blue zones to one degree or another. Or to be straight to the point, it is completely unnecessary for the vast majority of people to ever need to depend on animal products for food.

      • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today
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        2 days ago

        That’s fair. I accept that I am not the second coming, but I live in this world as best I can while still enjoying the comforts it offers

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          2 days ago

          They don’t have a nervous system like vertebrates do. They can still feel pain if you slice them through the head because they have a network of ganglia throughout their body, not one centralized brain.