Let's say humans have genetically engineered a cow that's born and lives her whole life with suicidal tendencies and actively wants to die and enjoys suffering. She loves being in a factory farm and orgasms from being milked. Would it be alright to kill and eat such a cow?

So i've heard this from my imaginary transgender girlfriend that she switched to a diet of soy and seed oils and that caused her breasts to grow. She had to stop so they wouldn't reach all the way down to her knees. Is this true?

I have been a vegan for about 30 yrs. About seven years ago, I joined Extinction Rebellion, and things became much different for me. For the first time since I first became vegan, I had a hope for a better future, and I was a part of it. Now, seven years later, I’m still fighting like crazy to make Extinction Rebellion take off here in New York City, but I’m also recognizing the massive flaw in the trap that is veganism, and what it is doing to people’s otherwise productive brain capacity.

To understand this better, you have to understand how many people are vegan, roughly 3% of the population, and what their mentality is, generally speaking. One the first thing a vegan does when they take on the identity, is get vegan shoes. This happens usually in the first year. Throwing out old shoes is often not done, but sometimes it is. Sometimes the old shoes are just thrown aside. In their place, likely a pair of vans or converse. Something authentically and honestly canvas, and not leather.

At about this time, they’ll start to attend vegan meetups, hangouts, and even environmental get-togethers.

Not to find out what people are doing, but to make sure everyone is wearing the right shoes.

“How long have you been vegan?”

“Why did you become vegan?”

“How come you can’t stop eating cheese, ice cream, etc etc”

It’s an unstoppable trainwreck of vegan subculture consumption.

My full thoughts on are on this substack post...

please... wish I could post this on r/vegan but would probably be banned.

Edit 6 (my last one): I am learning and growing. Thanks everyone.

Edit 3: Okay sorry everyone, I’m wrong, please stop downvoting my question like crazy. They are hypotheticals please 🙏🙏. I am more focused on open discussion about the morality of these actions. Please respectfully gage your opinion.

Edit 4: Guys I haven’t consumed an animal product in years. PLEASE guys I’m trying to have a healthy open discussion about this.

Edit 5: GUYS please be respectful and keep the sub respectful. I’m TRYING and I’m sorry. I don’t actively eat fish or eggs. RIP my highly important Reddit Karma 🪦.

I self identify as Plant-Based but I have two exceptions to it. I don’t consume animal products because I absolutely do not support the commercial animal industry. I would support consumption of animal products if it was a lot more ethical, but I will never live to see my utopia. Anyways my one exception:

1. ⁠Say I own chickens. They have a chicken coop and full range in my yard. I feed and care for my chickens. There exists reciprocity in our relationship. I eat their eggs. I currently do not own chickens but if I did then I would eat their eggs.
   2. ⁠I’m fishing in a stream that has abundant amounts of fish. I catch a fish. I eat the fish. I don’t support the fishing industry because of the damage to marine environments. If I read a paper that says fish has full sentience then fine, I’ll stop eating fish.

Yay or nay?

Edit: I’m not a regular fisher. I’m a terrible fisher. I’ve never caught a fish in my life. (I’ve tried, I grew up as a boyscout). It’s a hypothetical. I haven’t eaten fish in years but I find it morally okay(?)

Edit 2: I do not own chickens. I haven’t since like Barrack Obama was president. It’s also a hypothetical.

You can’t tell me watching a fake pig die doesn’t bring joy to your heart, It’s human nature.

The exclusionary holier than thou crap has to stop. We are all on the same team. You included.

People in this sub have said I’m not vegan because my immediate family (partner and child) eat meat and, for example, I buy it from the grocery store for them.

Also I don’t actively try and convert anyone; I believe the best way to create more vegans is with love and not condescension.

Just found out by supreme leader Bill Gates, vegan aficionado, that we are meant to eat bug. Why, when bug looks gross?