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Personally, I'm a vegan because I care heavily about the environment and my health, but I really don't care about the welfare of animals, as I just feel that the problem of animal use for human consumption isn't that animals are equal to humans.

I mean, how can you prove that animals are equal? Or even close?

Humans (from what I know) are the most intelligent species on the planet (incredibly disappointing, I know), and I know that the animals on factory farms are treated horribly, but for some reason I just can't fathom the idea that that's why we shouldn't eat them.

So I really wanna hear some persuasion from you guys, because I really want to be able to say that I care about the well being of animals...
I just don't want to be lying when I do.

...and they want their oil back.

I lol'ed.

On topic, I personally value all life, regardless of intelligence. I'm just weird like that. In my zoology class last semester, we were looking at live hydra under a dissecting microscope. I watched that tiny little clear thing for what seemed like hours. I just couldn't imagine that something THAT small housed living cells and moved and ate. It's just amazing to me. Why we should devalue life just because it doesn't have a brain or can't do mathematical formulas just seems selfish to me. Maybe I'm crazy, but that thing is living for a reason, right? Look how many things we've discovered by messing with the genome of a freakin' fruit fly. That's right, that tiny thing has been studies forEVER, and we've found so much.

My classmates looked at me weird when I didn't just dump my hydra solution down the drain like everyone else and instead grabbed the tweezers and put them back where I got them. Yep, that's me. Crazy hydra-saving Aili.

because animals have a right to be here just like we do. God didnt put them on this planet be tortured by humans. Humans show no respect for animals AT ALL, not even as pets. They use animals as they please, and have no consideration for them whatsoever. Animals have feelings, they have nerves that send signals to the brain telling them theyre in pain, just like humans do. So why should we treat them different? Because they cant talk? Because they cannnot build tall skyscrapers or guns or cell phones? Because they dont need it! Humans are the UNNATURAL race. When God put Adam and Eve on this planet, they did not need clothes, or any of that stuff.

If we all had to eat eachother we would all go vegetarian. Why dont we have a problem with eating the animals then?

And the animals are stupid thing... people with down syndrome are stupid. Would you eat them?