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[–] [email protected] -3 points 3 months ago (3 children)

no one is raping, enslaving, or torturing animals

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The entire dairy and meat industry is based on the rape and slaughter of animals. Mistreament of animals within the industry is arguably tantamount to torture and would be considered as such where it applied to humans.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The entire dairy and meat industry is based on the rape and slaughter of animals.

no one is raping animals and slaughter isn't enslavement nor is it torture

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

how do you think dairy cows are always pregnant if they're not being forcibly impregnated 🤔🤔

[–] [email protected] -3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

artificial insemination is a veterinary procedure. it's not rape

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

and getting a giant steel horn implanted in your forehead would be a cosmetic procedure, but i guess you'd be pretty upset if someone did it to you without asking?

artificial insemination would fit the legal definition of rape in several jurisdictions in the world if you did it to a human.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

and if done to cattle, it's a veterinary procedure

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

so you think all humans have rights to do any kinds of violent, invasive acts to any animal, as long as they call it a "veterinary procedure"? is there anything a human could do to an animal which you would classify as "rape"?

[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 months ago

you think all humans have rights

i think rights are a fiction. i don't believe they exist at all.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

is there anything a human could do to an animal which you would classify as “rape”?

i doubt it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

fucking your neighbor's pet cat is morally neutral

yeah this is turning out to be as wild as I expected

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago

it can be icky without being immoral.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The rape part they are referring to is forced insemination.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I agree, but the question isn't 'is artificial insemination rape', but rather 'Does PETA consider artificial insemination rape'.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Except for Dave. Someone should say something to him.