• jol
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      5 months ago

      Well, stop breeding them. Solved.

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        Sheep genocide! Woohoo!

        Even if we stop, what do we do with the ones we still have? Sanctuaries for millions of animals are far too expensive.

        How about we keep shearing them and let them graze under our solar?

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          You can’t, and I’m not recommending, get rid of sheep overnight. That’s a scenario you made up on your own.

          If you would castrate all domestic sheep today, that would be akin to what we do to cats and dogs. Slowly the population would dwindle.

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              People who kill and exploit animals every day are always so ready to defend animals. Raising animals for killing, even if you take their wool during their lives, is genocide.

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                word have meaning and by diluting “genocide” you are being dishonest and cheapening real genocides

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                  The problem is that we don’t have a word for when we commit genocide, but then force-breed the same population to prevent it from extinction, only to repeat the killing again. A perpetual holocaust. We have some euphemisms like “breeding” and “husbandry” that focus of the reproduction but not in the killing. I’m open to suggestions.

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                Raising animals to harvest is cruel and unusual punishment but it isn’t genocide. Genocide is the systematic and widespread extermination of a specific group. The fact that livestock animals outnumber us and their numbers are only growing should tell you we’re not genociding them. Words have meaning.

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                  Gonna quote my own comment to another user:

                  The problem is that we don’t have a word for when we commit genocide, but then force-breed the same population to prevent it from extinction, only to repeat the killing again. A perpetual holocaust. We have some euphemisms like “breeding” and “husbandry” that focus of the reproduction but not in the killing. I’m open to suggestions

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          The guy you’re arguing with is the reason so many people simply tune out animal activists. He reminds me of the hippy character from Futurama on the poppers episode 😂

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            You mean using reason and compassion? Yes, it’s a horrible trait of animal rights activists.

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                Just because you disagree does not make them unreasonable

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                  Your solutions are unreasonable. Nobody is going to finance rehoming and caring for billions of livestock animals. We can’t even do that for our own species.

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                    I never suggested rethinking rehoming. I never once said that.