• MilitantVegan@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Yeah, that was me. If you’d like to see my thoughts on why these differences in language matter, here’s my last comment on that thread:

    https://lemmy.world/comment/8591091

    But I want to ask another question: why does this kind of language evoke such a reaction in you? An animal is a living, intelligent being, with their own volition and life that they want to live. We humans are murdering them (among many other awful things). Why is it so controversial for us to simply call these things what they are?

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      8 months ago

      LOL we are having the same convo in multiple posts. See my other longer reply, but as I mentioned there we are not murdering them, murder refers to human beings. And it’s not that if you say “butchering” or “slaughtering” it comes through as nothing, these words are pretty loaded with meaning, and they are the correct ones.