• Sybil
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    -277 months ago

    almost no one has paid for a pig to be killed

    • @De_Narm
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      267 months ago

      It’s called ‘buying pork’. They don’t kill them for fun and just happen to sell them afterwards.

      • Sybil
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        -177 months ago

        when you buy pork, the person who killed the pig has already been paid.

        • @De_Narm
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          187 months ago

          That’s just useless semantics, neither funny nor clever. The pig you bought may be dead, but the money you pay will be used to raise and kill other pigs.

          • Sybil
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            -107 months ago

            it’s not semantics

            • @[email protected]
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              147 months ago

              It absolutely is. If you eat pork, you indirectly pay for pigs to be slaughtered. Full stop.

              • Sybil
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                -127 months ago

                the pig was slaughtered in the past, before I walked into the store or decided what I’m eating this week. everyone involved was paid before all that, too.

                • @[email protected]
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                  67 months ago

                  They wouldn’t kill, or even raise the pig if they didn’t count on the money down the chain. We indirectly but surely pay for pigs to be created / killed, for our consumption.

                  It’s fine if you don’t care about that or accept it as your standards, that’s your choice and fair in our current social context. Just realize the economics behind it.

                  • Sybil
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                    -67 months ago

                    all those people are paid before I even decide whether I’m going to buy bacon.

                • @mellejwz
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                  -17 months ago

                  And with wat money? Your money and everyone else’s that buys meat. Not that it matters though, I’ll keep eating my meat.

                  • Sybil
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                    -27 months ago

                    money can’t travel back in time.

          • Sybil
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            -117 months ago

            I give my money to the same people that you do: a grocer.

        • @[email protected]
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          97 months ago

          It’s actually irrelevant whether or not you buy a product made from slave labour, the product is already made! How much product is made is completely independent of how much gets purchased, because that’s how markets work!

    • @[email protected]
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      27 months ago

      Assuming what I think you’re assuming, now I want to hear this story of pig assassination.