I have to say I really think its the backwards rationalization
Well, that’s the obvious outside view. On the other side, even if I am rationalizing, that doesn’t mean I haven’t come up with some good rebuttal.
As for your first point, I see what you’re saying, but obviously not all vegans think that.
Well, I’ve yet to encounter some vegan who claims to be doing more for the animal than abstaining from doing evil. If reduce suffering is the real reason, I see a surprising lack of effective actions.
I mean its a pretty easy argument to say they suffer more in the intensive environments.
It’s pretty easy to disprove that, also. Take chickens, for example. When raised in a farming environment, they have access to better food, better health care, they are not subjected to the pecking order. The only thing they have less is space, but modern farming have ampler cages, and it’s not clear to me that a chicken would trade free roaming in the wild with the more comfortable existence in a chicken farm.
Well, that’s the obvious outside view. On the other side, even if I am rationalizing, that doesn’t mean I haven’t come up with some good rebuttal.
Well, I’ve yet to encounter some vegan who claims to be doing more for the animal than abstaining from doing evil. If reduce suffering is the real reason, I see a surprising lack of effective actions.
It’s pretty easy to disprove that, also. Take chickens, for example. When raised in a farming environment, they have access to better food, better health care, they are not subjected to the pecking order. The only thing they have less is space, but modern farming have ampler cages, and it’s not clear to me that a chicken would trade free roaming in the wild with the more comfortable existence in a chicken farm.