the online vegan

Animal eaters love to criticise animal rights activists for comparing a human animal, to a non-human animal. I think this is because it effectively exposes how morally inconsistent their position is.

They’ll happily compare animals to plants as a way of pointing out the ‘hypocrisy of vegans’ by declaring “Don’t you know plants also feel pain!”

Well, you need a functioning nervous system and a brain to experience pain or joy, so this comparison is so much more irrational than comparing a human to an animal. But again they’ll happily deploy this ridiculous reasoning in a debate on ethics.

Another double-standard that animal eaters hold is that it’s not ok for vegans to compare sentient human life, with sentient animal life because ‘Animals are not like us’ - but they’ll happily compare themselves to a Lion to justify their cruel habit of flesh eating by saying “Lions eat meat so it’s morally fine for me too!”

Listen, you can’t have it both ways!

It’s completely rational and logical to compare an animal with a human, because we are the same in all the ways that matter, with sentience being the main factor. We definitely can’t say the same of a carrot, and we certainly can’t use a lions behaviour to justify our own.

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