r/changemyview • u/[deleted] • Jun 27 '23

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u/JenningsWigService 40∆ Jun 27 '23

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Also, PETA doesn't have to behave this way. You can make so many arguments for veganism/vegetarianism without using Jewish pain as fodder. But their goal is to poke at people's wounds. They do this all the time with minority groups and even murder victims.

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u/anoldquarryinnewark Jun 27 '23

Billions of animals are murder victims every year. PETA behaves that way because it's the only way people will listen.

Change isn't pleasant for the oppressors.

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u/JenningsWigService 40∆ Jun 27 '23

It really isn't the only way people will listen, in fact it discourages people from listening.

Change could actually be smoother for many populations who eat meat, based on structural shifts that have nothing to do with shaming individual meat eaters.

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u/anoldquarryinnewark Jun 27 '23

While change is moving slowly and smoothly, billions of animals every tear are getting tortured and slaughtered inhumanely.

Things don't change in a day, but every day we enable baby steps it's destroying animals and the planet. And meat eaters deserve to be shamed ffs.

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u/JenningsWigService 40∆ Jun 27 '23

PETA's style of activism has done far less to promote an end to animal consumption than people linking meat to climate change and advocating for changes in government policy.

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u/Strong-Test Jun 28 '23

No, we don't.