• naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      4 months ago

      Oh yeah. The gas dissolves in the mucose around their eyes too, acidifying it like soda water.

      Male chickens discarded from hatcheries are thrown live into a blender, “maceration”, or gassed.

      Don’t ask about what happens to the male babies from dairy cow pregnancies for milk, or why veal is so tender.

      There are… reasons why people go vegan despite all the vitriol we get thrown our way for daring to not be silent about this nightmare. Slaughterhouse workers get PTSD, even the people most ok with actually doing this shit have their minds recoil and fold in on themselves in the face of the sheer horror.

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        4 months ago

        I feel like the vitriol also in large part comes from this. A lot of people know that it is unethical and wrong but in order to acknowledge that they would either have to change their behaviour radically or acknowledge that according to their own morals they are bad people. Most people can pretend that they don’t really have a choice or can’t really change, but when they meet someone who has made these radical changes, they get confronted with the reality and get instantly defensive in order to keep the illusion intact that they are “morally good”, taking out their own insecurity on the person that made the choice that they haven’t made.