• Zacryon@feddit.org
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    Strawberries are not berries (but aggregate accessory fruits). Cucumber, watermelon and pumpkin belong to the same family of plants. Tomatoes are fruit. Well botanically, vegetables do not exist anyway. Vegetables are a social construct. Also, wheat is a kind of grass. Isn’t our world beautiful?

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      14 hours ago

      That wheat is a grass is even easier to understand than corn also is one. And don’t forget bamboo, which can even grow into huge “trees” forming large bamboo forests!

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        14 hours ago

        Vegetarians aren’t real anyways because they still support mass murder of animals! (partly /s)

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            Eating eggs -> financially supporting a system where male chicks get either immediately killed after birth or more rarely are later killed for their meat. Also it is supporting a system where chickens are bred to produce as many eggs as fast as possible, which means a life of torture to them

            Drinking milk -> financially supporting a system where cows are continuously impregnated against their will and where their offspring is immediately taken from them and killed for their meat (I think this is done yearly). Also it is supporting a system where cows are bred to produce as much milk as fast as possible, which means a life of torture to them

            There are certainly many more atrocities happening, but I’m trying not to think too often of that stuff

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            I would guess by eating diary, eggs, leather, etc. I heard this take just yesterday, and I can see a point, because most animal industries don’t treat animals well even when it’s not about killing the animal

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              11 hours ago

              leather is mainly a waste product, no one actually kills animals for their skins (except animals that are valuable to humans only for their skin but those are the exception and in many places is even an illegal practice), so idk if i would count the use of leather :shrug:

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      It is beautiful, but you made it sound like Mexican food. It’s all the same you can just do it differently and call it something else.

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        20 hours ago

        The most sensical classification of species. Tracking shared traits and now shared DNA to group species by how recently they share an ancestor.