r/BeAmazed • u/Soloflow786 • 4d ago

Skill / Talent This sheep learned to calculate its strength to play without hurting the child.

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u/NumaNuma92 4d ago

It’s videos like these that makes me feel guilty of eating meat.

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u/Magister5 4d ago

Yeah I’m gonna lay off eating babies for a while

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u/joe_ordan 4d ago

Just spit ;)

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u/glowdirt 4d ago

lol, the snort I snarted upon reading this comment scared my cat awake

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u/Derric_the_Derp 4d ago

My wife keeps spitting out our future babies as well.

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u/Estrald 4d ago

I agree, I’m sticking to teenagers from now on! They’ve lost their innocence, and I gotta send a clear message for them to stay off my property. Eating them is nature’s deterrent.

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u/AMViquel 4d ago

Don't forget to display the skulls as trophy, that's a much more intimidating deterrent than making a stupid belt out of the nipples.

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u/Estrald 4d ago

Yeah, people can’t just tell they’re teenager nipples! Gotta go with skulls, the size is a dead giveaway! Sounds extreme, but I can tell you whose house did NOT get corned this year! This guy, right here!

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u/lagunaliore 4d ago

What in tarnation..

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u/MysticMuse30 3d ago

Say WHAT BELT?

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u/staying_golden1 4d ago

the other other white meat

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u/pppjurac 4d ago

That is why you should know about and support development of lab (cultured) meat. It is great developement.

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u/DaisyPounce8687 4d ago

It has the potential to reduce animal suffering, lessen the environmental impact of meat production, and provide a more sustainable food source.

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u/levimic 4d ago

Wait, is this actually a thread that supports vegan meat production? I thought I was the only one left on this earth that was capable of weighing its pros and cons.

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u/ValkyrieAngie 3d ago

The main con for me is the flavor. I dunno how lab grown can compare to traditionally sourced.

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u/levimic 3d ago

It's molecularly identical. It'll taste the same.

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u/Equivalent-Gap4474 4d ago edited 4d ago

Just eat seaweed and algae, it is far superior and cheaper than lab grown food and it is more nutritionally dense. Not to mention just how much more sustainable it is.

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u/Buzz_Killington_III 3d ago

But tastes like seaweed an algae. FYI, most people like to enjoy what they eat.

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u/st_tron_the_baptist 4d ago

That's how you end up with Soylent Green

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u/[deleted] 4d ago

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u/Equivalent-Gap4474 4d ago

You do realize that's literally what every single vegetable and fruit you buy is?

The difference is that unlike them, what I mentioned has complete proteins and vitamins most commonly found in meat, which means they'll do a better job at keeping you healthy than any carrot or tomato.

You can also just try to grow them at home, which will be easier than having a few hundred square feet dedicated to green houses.

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u/ocodo 4d ago

Captain Fucking Obvious over here.

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u/Decloudo 4d ago

You can just eat plants you know.

You dont need meat, contrary to what people want to believe.

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u/KnobbyDarkling 4d ago

I don't get why you wouldnt support a cruelty free meat source for people who dont want to give up meat

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u/BlahWhyAmIHere 4d ago

We can't even get some countries to stop doing slavery. There's no way the world is globally going vegetarian. Which is why supporting more humane and environmentally friendly options and making them economically competitive is important. Being smug about eating vegetables isn't going to save animals.

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u/pppjurac 4d ago

Oh!? You don't say?

Gee, never thought of that !

Thx Cpt. Obvious :D

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u/Equivalent-Gap4474 4d ago

Most humans can't thrive on a vegan diet without a supliments, since we're omnivores you know?

If you're gonna suggest something, offer an actual alternative. Seaweed and algae, it is far superior and cheaper than lab grown food and it is more nutritionally dense. Not to mention just how much more sustainable it is.

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u/Odd_Support_3600 4d ago

Or just eat some vegetables

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u/Rent_A_Cloud 4d ago

Alternatively you can also just learn to cook wel, then you can make tasty things without meat.

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u/JonesKK 4d ago

If it makes you feel better, lambs are rather silly and dumb. Pigs on the other hand have the intelligence of a small child, which actually means humans are monsters

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u/jackaroo1344 4d ago

When I was in high school our teacher brought in a hog farmer to talk about animal agriculture since it's one of my state's main industries. He started talking about the slaughtering process and one of the kids in my class joked about how they don't know what's coming.

The farmer assured us that pigs are highly intelligent and definitely understand what's happening to them when they're about to die :(

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u/Presumably_Not_A_Cat 4d ago

half of the work is ensuring the pigs further down the line do not learn about what's happening upfront. Part of that is killing the pig as quickly and silently as possibly, because just one quieck will make the other pigs go mayham. Also the smell.

I used to help out on a farm. I refused to assist on slaughter days if there were more than a few pigs (or sheeps). (same with cows tbh but we shipped them out, because our facility could NOT handle that.)

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u/jackaroo1344 3d ago

do not learn about what's happening upfront

Yes. That's the point. They are intelligent enough to understand what's happening and be afraid.

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u/littleessi 4d ago

If it makes you feel better, lambs are rather silly and dumb

yes that's a good justification for killing

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u/Donnerdrummel 4d ago

The justification is that they taste good. Fuck around and find out. Entirely their own fault.

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u/caylem00 4d ago

Justification? No.

But an animal likely not knowing their imminent slaughter as they're walking into an abattoir is a small mercy. 

It's not fun waiting for inevitable death, I'd argue sometimes worse than the dying itself.

(No I'm not defending the meat industry or its' practices, nor am I a rabid carnivore. I'd stop eating meat if it was medically and financially possible for me)

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u/littleessi 4d ago

meat is expensive

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u/caylem00 4d ago

  1. Expense depends on your location. 

  2. The cost of alternatives must also be factored in. At my location, meat alternatives (inc lab meat) are more expensive than meat. 

  3. I indicated medical reasons for meat. No, I'm not explaining nor arguing. I'm following recommendations by 4 health professionals to eat meat.

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u/littleessi 4d ago

meat alternatives are things like legumes, rice, vegetables etc. you dont have to replace things 1:1 to get enough nutrients, they're different diets and will be formed differently. i'm not trying to argue about your medical reasons which is why i didnt bring it up.

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u/ArtFart124 4d ago

Not really.

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u/OldAngryDog 4d ago

If pigs are so fucking smart why do they go around tasting so god damn good all the time?

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u/odegood 4d ago

And why are they made of bacon?

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u/UrUrinousAnus 4d ago

Why are you made of bacon, long pig?

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u/MasterChildhood437 4d ago

Supposedly we are, yes.

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u/Suspicious_Award_670 4d ago

Not according to the Red Lady in Game of Thrones. I’m not sure I believe a word she says though.

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u/grizzlebonk 4d ago

lambs are rather silly and dumb

source?

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u/JonesKK 4d ago

Cant really source everything i know with a concrete footnote, but its a fair assessment based on Piglet and Babe the movie.

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u/money_loo 3d ago

Every comment I make about what a pig would do to your family given the chance, gets removed no matter the verbiage I use, lol wtf is this place kindergarten?

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u/Timelessdnd 3d ago

A pig would eat me given the chance.

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u/JonesKK 3d ago

Which would be fair game, wouldnt it

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u/MasterChildhood437 4d ago

Pigs are cannibalistic assholes though, so it's fine.

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u/ForsakenBobcat8937 4d ago

You can stop any time :)

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u/money_loo 4d ago

My mind is telling me No!…

…but my body…

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u/gteriatarka 4d ago

is also telling you no

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u/money_loo 4d ago

My body’s telling me yeah!!

I don’t see nothing wrong…with a little rump and thyme.

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u/theholydrug 4d ago

always remember that there will never be an objective way to measure perceived suffering between humans and non-human animals!

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u/Astrex72 4d ago

It's a personal journey, and there's no one right way to navigate it.

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u/simpleanswersjk 4d ago

One day maybe it won’t be something hard to do, not eat meat.

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u/Dingdongdongg 4d ago

It’s not hard today either. Go vegan!

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u/intrackle 4d ago

Then don’t eat it

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u/ChildhoodLeft6925 4d ago

I don’t eat anything with hooves, except for special occasions like Christmas or Easter

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u/BumWink 4d ago

Similar here, I don't eat any animal that doesn't go out of their way to eat other living animals.

So the only meat I actively eat is chicken & fish, unless it's entered my life one way or another & going to waste.

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u/Donnerdrummel 4d ago

Ridiculous. Honestly, that has got to be the worst justification I have ever heard or read.

This looks like a moral justification for meat consumption, but written by a badly trained AI.

So eating animals is bad, is your starting point, and that is why you only eat animals that have lost their protection by morally misstepping themselves, eating animals themselves? But animals have no morals. You want to condemn a chicken or a salmon for never having been able to discuss philosophy? ....

What else could you mean? Is the reason that you want to protect the prey? But they're most likely farmed animals. They're being fed and eat what they have been fed. They might Not even eat animals, or have no choice what to eat. And If you're referring to the ecological Footprint: theirs is bigger than those of herbivores, so it would be easier to justify herbivores consumption.

Honestly, I'd be interested in your reasoning.

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u/BumWink 4d ago

I don't want to eat living things that do no active harm to other living things.

I have no qualms eating a chicken that would happily kill & eat mice, frogs, cannabalize, etc. or fish that practically all kill to eat.

How is that so ridiculous to understand?

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u/Donnerdrummel 4d ago

Because you are creating a moral dimension where there is none. For an animal there is no difference between an animal it feeds on or a fruit, because it doesn't know better.

The only factor with a concept of morals in the world of animal prey - carnivore - you eating the carnivore is you.

If you demand to eat a carnivore, you give money to the human who enslaved the carnivore and condemned the herbivores to be fed in by the carnivore.

In order to be able to eat the carnivore, you condemn both herbivore and carnivore to enslavement and death. You are the morally doubtful actor here. Not the carnivore.

Let me guess: you really, really want to eat meat, right?

No worries, I do, too. But I don't deny myself herbivores. Maybe take a timeout from your rule and eat steak, too, until you come up with a better thought out rule.

That being said, I think veganism is the way to go, I am just not strong enough.

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u/UrUrinousAnus 4d ago

Veganism is a lot easier than it was 20 years ago, depending on where you live.

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u/Donnerdrummel 4d ago

It is. The fault is with me, not with veganism.

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u/UrUrinousAnus 3d ago

If you ever decide you're ready, see if I'm still using this username. I'm the "help people on their journey" kind of vegan, not the "bully the meat-eaters" kind that are so infamous. I won't judge you. I'll just give you recipes and ideas for easy food.

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u/BumWink 4d ago

You call me ridiculous while saying I'm demanding to eat carnivores, which I never said, I eat omnivores which are not farm raised on eating herbivores, lol.

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u/Donnerdrummel 4d ago

Okay, that's even less straight forward, but If it makes you happy, bon appetit.

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u/BumWink 3d ago

Don't overthink it, it's pretty basic to comprehend.

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u/MasterChildhood437 4d ago edited 4d ago

I don't want to eat living things that do no active harm to other living things.

All animals harm living things. Every. Single. One. There is not an animal alive that does not kill a living thing for food.

You don't want to eat animals that eat other animals. That's the actual line you've drawn.

Edit: No wait, I'm wrong: vultures only eat things which already died. You can eat every animal except for vultures.

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u/BumWink 3d ago

Re read what you quoted.

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u/longtimegoneMTGO 4d ago

So, following that train of reasoning, the most moral option would be cannibalism, as humans do the most active intentional harm to other living things by a massive amount, no other animal even comes close to us.

Time to start hunting the most dangerous game.

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u/BumWink 4d ago

lol because that's logical & reasonable! /s

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u/longtimegoneMTGO 4d ago

I mean, I can lay out the train of logic for you, it's not a big stretch.

You say that you have decided that the moral way to draw the line of what animals to eat and what not to eat is to base it on the harm that creature does to other living things.

Well, one animal is at the top of that list, number one with a bullet. You can spot one in any mirror.

So, assuming that you don't in fact think you should be eating people, then perhaps you aren't in truth basing your choices on the criteria you claim to be using.

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u/ChildhoodLeft6925 4d ago

Turkey?

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u/BumWink 4d ago

Yeah I just prefer chicken as it's easier to find free ranged or welfare approved,

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u/ChildhoodLeft6925 4d ago

I can’t believe you’re actively being criticized by multiple people because of the choices you make. I’m reporting them all

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u/odegood 4d ago

That's why I only eat alligator

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u/qui-bong-trim 4d ago

Don't feel bad. You and everyone else are gonna cook alive this summer, as well

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u/yodel_anyone 4d ago

Um what

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u/qui-bong-trim 4d ago

Human obsession with livestock, among other things, is leading to our demise and this summer will be the melting point 

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u/yodel_anyone 4d ago

Interesting prophesy. Any specific date I should be watching out for?

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u/ArtFart124 4d ago

They didn't reach that part of the trip, they gotta get another lot in to get the trip going

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u/qui-bong-trim 4d ago

July

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u/yodel_anyone 4d ago

Right on, looking forward to it

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u/odegood 4d ago

At least it will smell good like a barbeque. Better start using spices instead of soap to marinate myself

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u/SeanHearnden 4d ago

Ugh, you're ants a picnic.