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Is it not morally wrong to drink the milk of an animal that was forcibly impregnated and whose child was murdered for said milk? Why stop at vegetarianism?
artifical insemination doesnt need to happen for milk production
It's not clear here if you think that is the only problem with rape, child theft, torture, and murder. It's not even clear whether you understand that a child has to be created, neglected, and abused for a mother's milk to be sold.
You cannot even accept "torture"? Really. Well then that clarifies your original comment.
they should be killed swiftly and painlessly
non sequitur
you're clearly speaking from a place of ignorance, about what you want to be true. you should learn more about where your food actually comes from and what externalities are being paid by others because of your choices. right now you're just brainwashing yourself so that you don't have to emotionally cope with your cruelty and violence.
He thinks cows are people.
I think cattle are moral individuals that have the capacity to be wronged. That is all. That doesn't require that they are human-like people with full human-like capacities and rights. Just because a human is worth more than a cow doesn't mean a cow is worthless and you can do whatever you want to her, doesn't mean that a cow cannot suffer every bit as harshly as you can.
Giving different words to the crimes we commit against animals is a way of insulating yourself from the crimes you commit, like how calling cow flesh "beef" insulates you from the horror and cruelty you commit.