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this just in, people who are doing well are not allowed to have complex or mixed feelings about their situation. and if they do they sure as hell better not express them on twitter dot com 💅

(this is technically inaccurate b/c of different lifespans across species & the fact that many are selectively bred to grow way faster than in the wild, e.g. most birds are slaughtered at a much younger age than calves raised for veal, but you get the idea)

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type of guy who doesn't eat any kind of meat aside from veal because he wants the minimal lifetime suffering per animal

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type of guy who doesn't eat dairy or eggs but still eats meat and wears leather, because it's better to be flat out killed rather than enslaved

this tweet brought to you by the leftovers of my nova lox eggs benedict that were gone in 15 seconds flat.

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do your cats a favor and treat them like the garbage disposals that they are. they're good kitties. they deserve to be happy, they deserve to feast.

not only is this a dropshipping grift and what will be an amazingly beautiful breeding ground for malware, but all the replies are absolute gold twitter.com/erikfinman/status/

and then you spend a good chunk of money on fancy cheeses and gorge yourself and remember just how much you always loved goat cheese (among other kinds of cheese) 🧀

the end.

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I don't really have any specific ending to this thread, just: those associations can indeed be broken, and while the morality/cleanliness trap can be quite the deep hellhole to claw your way through, it's doable. and it feels way better to come out on the other side. ✌️

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it's not like being vegan would help them restrict more, I figured, since they were observed at mealtimes. but now I see it differently. the staff weren't just trying to force-feed them a high-calorie diet — they were also trying to break unhealthy associations in the brain.

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