How much do you care about where you source your dairy products from? How do you feel about the practices and quality of commercial dairy as opposed to farms that sell direct to consumers?

Talking about age range 4-10 or so

I want to share that today I saw a video in my youtube feed from "PureLandPond", a Chinese-language language channel for promoting Pureland buddhism. I probably received it because I once searched for the buddhist folktale of "Mu Liang saves his mother from hell".

The channel features various animated videos with stories of people who receive karmic punishments for various "misdeeds", often being killing animals for food. One video follows a group of people who sold fishing tackles and lures for several years, until one of them becomes bedridden from cancer.

On her sickbed she explains that "bad deeds" gives you bad karma which can cause you to be befallen with misfortune, like killing (showing pictures of people killing chickens and fish) which even includes miscarriage. The old lady says that years ago she suffered from a miscarriage, which is one of the reasons behind why she's become ill. So apparently, if you're a person capable of pregnancy and have ever gotten a miscarriage, something you have no control over, you will receive bad karma for the death of the fetus.

Isn't that messed up?

How do desert or artic peoples keep plant based animals, but they don't have plants of their own?

Outside my window is a paddock, the bushes are poisonous, the trees are also. And the grass, well I probably wouldn't last very long eating it. But do you know what thrives out there, our goats!

Granted I have animals experience. But if you were so devoted to animals and their welfare, wouldn't you take a moment to learn about them. Even just the basics of how they live?

A while ago I saw a post with screenshots of messages the OP received from a vegan who harassed them for joking about "eating more bacon" or something like that in the veganism sub. The vegan was trying to frighten the OP into "repenting" by telling them "And the scary part is that perhaps in the afterlife (assuming reincarnation will happen in an infinite universe) you will experience the very same thing you contributed to. The universe and time is infinite, consciousness is infinite, and I believe we all experience all the good and bad there is anyway. We aren't separate beings from others consciousness like we think we are. Consciousness is one thing/being experiencing itself." and "Scary thought, but sadly (perhaps justly) likely true. I hope we as humans can show mercy, so that we will receive the very same mercy again in the future."

I find what they said about consciousness being infinite and interconnected with all beings capable of experience to be a pretty interesting concept, if only it wasn't used to try guilting people into veganism.

It does make me think of the concept of ahimsa from Buddhism: buddhism in general has a rather dim view of eating animals and promote vegetarianism out of compassion under the philosophy of "ahimsa", and there are scriptures that describe people being tormented in hell because they butchered animals in life. And there are many vegans who subscribe to buddhism's concept of "ahimsa" to justify their views.

The idea that "showing mercy" towards animals will cause you to receive mercy in the afterlife though is the same as fire-and-brimstone preachers preaching about hellfire to scare their flock. It's also completely childish for the following reasons:

In my view, even though killing can be cruel, its a part of nature which humans aren't separate from. A cow is a prey animal whose natural purpose-if it had any at all-is to upcycle the free energy of trophic lifeforms below it, then get killed and eaten by those lifeforms above it or by disease and bad luck. But somehow this is a moral evil when committed by humans.

What are your opinions on using the concept of karma to scare people into veganism? The idea that by killing and eating animals we cause them suffering and pain, and in a "just" universe will experience the same pain we caused them?

Ironclad link between red meat and cancer identified https://newatlas.com/medical/red-meat-iron-colorectal-cancer-mechanism/

Hey, Aussie here. Have any fellow aussies been to a meat farm, and is it anything like in dominion or other biased vegan media?

Now I understand what vegans feel when they see food they like and then it's murder meat or something.

I got a nice salad from a store yesterday, now it's lunch and I wanna eat. Some nice salad with croutons and cheese - wrong. It's "vegan cubes". :((( I didn't see the vegan sign on the salad when I bought it. If course imma eat it, I'm not an idiot. But I was really looking forward to cheese....

Do you think fur ranches are ethical? Should they exist? Can they be improved to make them more ethical? Do you think wild trapping is better? Would you purchase furs that were farmed?

The most commonly farmed fur-bearers are mink, fox, tanuki (raccoon dog), and chinchilla.