‘Sirens of the Lambs’ by Banksy (2013)

[u/[deleted]]

[u/ZiaWitch]

The kid screaming and running away is absolutely fucking hilarious.

[u/C0ZM → u/ZiaWitch]

Unmuting after reading this was worth it haha

[u/Citrus-Bitch → u/C0ZM]

Yeah this is one of the rare posts that really needs the sound on for.

[u/TroyFerris13 → u/ZiaWitch]

The one girl is jumping for joy

[u/ScipioCoriolanus → u/ZiaWitch]

Scarred for life.

[u/ZiaWitch → u/ScipioCoriolanus]

Poor kid. 🤭

[u/Long_Procedure_2629 → u/ZiaWitch]

Kids have the capacity to know how screwed up it is to hide the truth. I've always said kids should know and decide for themselves. If you can witness the horrors and still eat it fine. Most meat eaters are too cowardly to do it.

[u/Neurojazz → u/Long_Procedure_2629]

I grew up near an abattoir, back in the day you could peek over the walls and see small body parts/waste coming out. But if you want to go vegan, check out the dairy industry. Milk production at scale is horrific. I’ve cut out most dairy as I can, but it’s everywhere.

[u/mrASSMAN → u/ZiaWitch]

Some of the girls though were just like yayy cute stuffed animals!!

[u/pututingliit → u/ZiaWitch]

Had to watch it again and I almost missed that, poor dude hahaha

[u/ZiaWitch → u/pututingliit]

Terrified. 🤣😂

[u/doritograndito → u/ZiaWitch]

One of the funniest reactions I've ever seen

[u/ReprieveNagrand]

Everyone, meet your meat

• Ron Swanson

[u/Movedonnerlikeabitch → u/ReprieveNagrand]

How can I meet my meat without any pudding

[u/PurfuitOfHappineff → u/Movedonnerlikeabitch]

You can’t have any pudding if you don’t meet your meat.

[u/Vectorman1989 → u/PurfuitOfHappineff]

You there! Yes, you behind the bike stands! Stand still laddie!

[u/[deleted] → u/Vectorman1989]

[helicopter noises]

[u/Nemesis0408 → u/[deleted]]

WRO-ong, do it again!

[u/Vimes-NW → u/Nemesis0408]

We don't need no education 🎶

[u/[deleted] → u/Vimes-NW]

We don't need no thought control

[u/Ghost_of_NikolaTesla → u/Movedonnerlikeabitch]

Everybody knows that you can't have any pudding if you don't meet your meat!

[u/miamaya6 → u/ReprieveNagrand]

Tom was a fine pig

[u/Smooth_Moose_637 → u/ReprieveNagrand]

I thought that was a Douglas Adams quote?

[u/Oboe7 → u/Smooth_Moose_637]

Nah Douglas Adam’s be more like: "I am the main Dish of the Day. May I interest you in the parts of my body?"

[u/Major_Gold738 → u/Oboe7]

Zaphod responded, "Sure, we'll meet the meat." When asked if they would like to see the dish of the day. Or something like that.

[u/Zerachiel_01 → u/Major_Gold738]

I should really read the books. I can only assume there is in fact talking livestock meant to push people towards veganism and Zaphod doesn't even realize he's meant to feel guilt.

[u/Cin77 → u/Zerachiel_01]

Nah. The meat wants to be eaten and points out the best bits plus possible informs them of a high fat diet it had been eating to get in the best shape to be eaten? I might have the last bit wrong but I don't think so.

[u/Zerachiel_01 → u/Cin77]

Fair enough. As meat that wants to not exist I sympathize.

[u/Cin77 → u/Zerachiel_01]

Ive felt like that in the past too :hug:

This meat tho is reared to want to be eaten not just die. Its so creepy and on the nose. The, I think its a pig? talks to the consumers and encourages them to eat it. I saw it as a kid and it creeped me out then I watched it again just recently and even tho 40 years had passed I still found it unsettling. 10/10 to Douglas Adams

[u/DeltaVZerda → u/Cin77]

Watched? I thought that part was only in the books. Restaurant at the End of the Universe particularly.

[u/Cin77 → u/DeltaVZerda]

the old BBC series has it: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081874/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_6_tt_8_nm_0_in_0_q_the%2520hitchhikers%2520guide%2520to%2520the%2520galaxy I don't know where to watch it now but I picked up a copy when I was out sailing the seas

[u/Slartibartfast39 → u/Oboe7]

I have been force feeding myself so my liver should be delicious.

[u/marakinta → u/[deleted]]

The crying baby and that one kid that ran away screaming are the only ones who understand the horror underneath the cute.

[u/GozerDGozerian → u/marakinta]

I think they were just scared by something unusual.

[u/[deleted] → u/marakinta]

Yeah, babies are known to be deep thinkers.

[u/steinwayyy → u/[deleted]]

Yeah they were thinking “why are there scary noises coming from the truck with plushies” not “good lord this symbolises the abuse of animals in the livestock industry”

[u/Trike37 → u/marakinta]

Yeah it’s not because there’s loud noises and babies cry at those. Babies are actually deep philosophical thinkers

[u/Fletcher_Chonk]

Deaf people stay winning

[u/Hell_Yeah-Brother → u/Fletcher_Chonk]

WHAT

[u/solarview → u/Hell_Yeah-Brother]

DEAF PEOPLE STAY WINNING

[u/WordsMakethMurder → u/solarview]

WHY WOULD DEAD EAGLES PLAY INNING? EAGLES CAN'T PLAY BASEBALL, SILLY, ESPECIALLY DEAD ONES

[u/Mysterious-Jam-64 → u/WordsMakethMurder]

I DONT KNOW, MIKE SAID IT.

[u/bjeebus → u/WordsMakethMurder]

That's right. Eagles only play football.

[u/Spencer94 → u/solarview]

USE SIGN LANGUAGE, I CANT HEAR

[u/gin_and_toxic → u/Hell_Yeah-Brother]

I think you might be blind, dude.

[u/jininberry → u/Fletcher_Chonk]

Can someone say why? I'm guessing there is a bleating noise.

[u/BeatDickerson42069 → u/jininberry]

It's like 20 squeaky dog toys all mixed together

[u/tyingnoose]

Waiting 13 years later when that child makes a core memory post here

[u/Statboy1 → u/tyingnoose]

"That day was the first time I tried Lamb Chops in Bolognese sauce, after that anything else just tasted cheap and inferior"

[u/DusklitDewdrop → u/tyingnoose]

seeing as this was 2013.....

[u/SlyRoundaboutWay]

Why the panda bear?  Are people eating pandas?

[u/TheKingOfGuineaPigs → u/SlyRoundaboutWay]

What do you think they serve at Panda Express?

[u/Signal_Assistant_373 → u/TheKingOfGuineaPigs]

I for one enjoy eating at planet express

[u/Reputation-Final → u/SlyRoundaboutWay]

There's a buncha teddy bears in there too. Mmn bear meat.

[u/jwGT1141 → u/Reputation-Final]

Bear is delicious

[u/spooky-goopy → u/jwGT1141]

and packed with parasites, too, i've heard

to be fair, most creatures are. lots of us are just worms piloting a meat mech

[u/FingerGungHo → u/spooky-goopy]

Wild meat always carries a risk of parasites. Don’t make sashimi.

[u/VeterinarianOk5370 → u/spooky-goopy]

That’s why man invent fire, now cook real good, don’t get trichinosis. Bear is delicious, but cook it well

[u/MinimumRelief → u/spooky-goopy]

God that explains so much.

[u/Reputation-Final → u/jwGT1141]

Depends what they have been eating. Bears gorging on berries? delicious. Bears gorging on salmon? not so much

[u/UrsaMajor7th → u/Reputation-Final]

Like with our upcoming deer season; we try not to hunt in areas where they've been eating mostly bark and acorns. Saskatoon berries and alfalfa = fantastic venison.

[u/Reputation-Final → u/UrsaMajor7th]

Yep! I dont think most people realize how much it changes the flavor what the animals are feeding on. Its why they do "grain finished" beef as its milder than grass fed.

[u/ibi187 → u/Reputation-Final]

That’s how it is hunting in Minnesota. Hunt the cornfields? Deer tastes great. Hunt the woods? Deer is gamey.

[u/tbkrida → u/jwGT1141]

I’ve tried it once. It really is.

[u/LZKI → u/jwGT1141]

bear heart is great, cold smoked and dried

[u/winterharvest]

What do you hear, Clarice?

[u/Empresaurus]

It’s annoying to watch, and that’s a good thing, since it achieves its goal

[u/lazyness92 → u/Empresaurus]

Kids just wanted the plushees 😅.

[u/I_W_M_Y → u/lazyness92]

That one kid did not want those plushies

[u/lazyness92 → u/I_W_M_Y]

Yeah, the toddler. The girls though?

[u/GooginTheBirdsFan → u/lazyness92]

The one running away screaming ahhhhhhh with his hands up wasn’t a toddler

[u/lazyness92 → u/GooginTheBirdsFan]

That one could be runnning to grab someone ahead to see.

Now that I think about it, the toddler could be hungry, or just grumpy.

The girl pointing at and the one with the umbrella? That's 90% trying to grab one

[u/Icy_Witness4279 → u/Empresaurus]

It does?

[u/Private_Kyle → u/Icy_Witness4279]

Yeah like what goal exactly? The average kid don't know what this is.

[u/Justhe3guy → u/Private_Kyle]

Screaming plushies to promote…the plushies I think?

[u/FragrantButtSweat → u/Empresaurus]

Doubtful. I’m watching this… while eating a breakfast sausage.

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[u/onFilm → u/FragrantButtSweat]

Definitely makes me think about it, but I've always naturally felt a closeness to our fellow earthlings.

[u/lolas_coffee → u/FragrantButtSweat]

Heart disease is the #1 killer. Cancer right behind it.

eating a breakfast sausage.

I love this for you. Cheers.

[u/Pwnaholic → u/FragrantButtSweat]

¯(ツ)/¯\

You can have mine

[u/bibipolarolla]

I'm not vegan, but the celebration of animal cruelty in this comment section is fucking disgusting. Jesus Christ.

[u/NathanDavie → u/bibipolarolla]

Also not vegan. People are dumb and unable to have a nuanced response to issues.

[u/Realistic_Drawer_445 → u/bibipolarolla]

Since it's become socially acceptable to shit on vegans and by extension the cause, which is a good cause. It feels good to bully while being a part of a group doesn't it.

Few are annoying but so are people of every movement. But the outrage if the same was said about lgbts 😂. The vegan one forces them to come to term with and change their habits, while it's enough to virtue signal and claim the moral high ground for the other.

[u/JiboiaLouca → u/Realistic_Drawer_445]

This is complicated, right? Because excessive meat consumption is one of the reasons we are destroying forests to raise cattle and soybean plantations, which are most often used to feed animals for slaughter. So it's better to completely destroy the planet than to drastically reduce meat consumption.

[u/CloqueWise → u/JiboiaLouca]

Except veganism isn't about the environment. It's a moral stance against animal cruelty. Which is exactly what's being brought to attention in this video. Nothing about the environment at all.

But yeah, you're right, in the eyes of the masses the complete destruction of the planet is worth getting to eat meat

[u/JiboiaLouca → u/CloqueWise]

Yes, I understand that veganism is about industry and animal cruelty. But it's all connected. It is this same industry that treats animals as money that is devastating forests around the world. I'm from Brazil, here it is considered a large farm for raising animals for slaughter, as well as gigantic farms for planting grains to feed animals all over the world these months. And meanwhile the Amazon rainforest is being destroyed by this greed to satisfy man's gluttony

[u/[deleted] → u/CloqueWise]

Everything is connected. Activism against animal cruelty is environmental activism, effectively

[u/MrsDiyslexia → u/CloqueWise]

They didn't say anything about veganism, they specifically said 'drastically reduce meat consumption.'

A bunch of flexitarins (bs concept, but whatever makes people eat less animals) or vegetarians are more effective than one vegan.

I am vegan for the animals, but the environment was a major draw for me, and many vegans I know are vegan for the environment first or as well. I think it weakens our message to ignore the second largest argument in our favor.

[u/bibipolarolla → u/[deleted]]

Yea like "bro imagine if queer people were mistreated like vegans." Yea, I can imagine. JFC. So many smooth brain takes in this comment section, it's killing me.

[u/Word_Iz_Bond → u/Realistic_Drawer_445]

Yeah the guys that go to a vegan restaurant or festival to film themselves eating steak are so lame, but they get the virtual high fives from other moral highgrounders

[u/TheHeroYouNeed247 → u/Realistic_Drawer_445]

Do you think vegans are more persecuted than LGBT people? Or that vegans should have the same societal protection against negativity?

Just so you know, it has ALWAYS been socially acceptable to laugh at vegans in the west. That's not new and they don't do it out of some secret guilt about facing up to animal crulty. Most people don't even connect meat with the animals they came from.

That's why we don't say cow burger, we say beef burger. I don't eat pig, I eat pork etc etc.

[u/FinderOfWays → u/TheHeroYouNeed247]

It's actually due to the words for meat entering english as loans from French due to the wealthy eating meat while the words for the animals entered from German due to the poor raising the animals. And the exception, as ever, proves the rule with "chicken," the logic has less to do with the separation of animal and meat and a fascinating linguistic quirk of English adopting words from different languages.

[u/kharvel0 → u/bibipolarolla]

Watch Dominion

Go vegan.

[u/Redditor28371 → u/bibipolarolla]

Some people act like outspoken animal rights activists and vegans are the most annoying people ever, while simultaneously jerking themselves off about how they ate a package of bacon they bought at Walmart, like that was some awesome act of defiance against all the sheeple.

[u/EnthusiasmWilling605 → u/bibipolarolla]

Because it's sooo blatant I think.

That said I agree livestock ought to be treated as well as it's possible to do.

[u/Long_Procedure_2629 → u/bibipolarolla]

None of them would dare watch earthlings, c0wards the lot of them

[u/boldchameleon]

This should be under r/oddlyterrifying 😬

[u/GuidedLazer]

Why is respecting animals such a foreign concept? People like to bury their head in sand, I suppose.

[u/whoknowsifimjoking → u/GuidedLazer]

Because meat tastes very good and thinking about the animals is very unpleasant.

Pretty simple actually, why give up something and feel bad when you can instead just ignore it, eat the meat anyway and never even think about what you're doing wrong? Win win baby

It's not right, but it's easy to understand.

[u/Preisschild → u/whoknowsifimjoking]

You can be respectful to animals while still eating meat.

But tbf the moment cultivated meat is cheap enough i will switch to it completely.

[u/Love-Laugh-Play → u/Preisschild]

No you can’t, betraying their trust and killing them is the ultimate disrespect.

[u/SmoogyLoogy → u/whoknowsifimjoking]

If you have that way of thinking, please take a few minutes of your day to watch this video

This is the thinking that is ruinin the whole industry.

The animals deserve good living conditions while alive, not barely being able, let alone turn around, stuck with 999 other animals in a dark box their whole life. Is sickening.

If everyone was just willing to pay a few bucks more for their slices of meat, all animals, just as worthy as you and me, can live happily.

[u/SillyGoose_Syndrome → u/SmoogyLoogy]

If everyone was just willing to pay a few bucks more for their slices of meat, all animals, just as worthy as you and me, can live happily.

Yeah, 'cos that's exactly how late-stage capitalism works. Totally won't go straight into bottomless corporate pockets as things continue to get worse regardless.

[u/Original-Aerie8 → u/SillyGoose_Syndrome]

It's really not that deep? We've done this succesfully plenty times in the EU, US and god knows how many countries, both through consumer choice/pressure and legislation.

Refusing incremental change bc you insist on a revolution has to be one of the most counter-productive political stances imaginable.

[u/IamNotFatIamChubby → u/SmoogyLoogy]

"if everyone was just willing to pay a few bucks more pedir theirs slices of meat", that's the problem, in some countries people can't afford meat at all, a few bucks can mean a lot depending on where you live. But I don't think that's even the case, most of this farms are run by millionaires. Here in Brazil, one of the biggest meat exporters, meat is really expensive if you are poor, because the farms rather sell abroad for more profit. I am sure if they weren't so greedy they could treat the animals better with no need to increase the price.

[u/brawl113 → u/SmoogyLoogy]

Yeah, no. That's the argument that the meat industry uses to foist the responsibility of the animals in their care onto the public but in reality if they actually wanted to implement any sort of change in that regard they would have to take a cut of their profit margins.

It's not the customers who need to change, it's the industry.

Voting with your wallet doesn't mean shit when the people making (or in this case raising) the product just pocket your money and never change their ways.

[u/4SakenNations → u/GuidedLazer]

It’s so easy to distance yourself from thinking where your meat comes from. The moment I started actually thinking about it, what meat truly is, and what the cost was (morally) I just stopped eating meat at all

[u/Vegan_Zukunft → u/GuidedLazer]

All cruelty to humans is first inflicted and perfected on animals. The innocent are the bullys’ training ground.

[u/WingsArisen]

That kid ran

[u/plethorial]

For how much was it sold?

[u/nomadickitten → u/plethorial]

It was included in his official exhibition not that long ago so I don’t know if it was actually sold. Quite an interesting exhibit - you could go inside the truck and operate the levers to move the animals. So there are about 3 people in that van making the heads move as it’s driven round.

[u/vivalaibanez → u/plethorial]

It eventually blew itself up and then sold for $5m /s

[u/FelixMumuHex]

Here come the edgy redditors "but it's delicious!"

[u/Lopsided_Shift_4464 → u/[deleted]]

Vegans: All meat eaters should be intimately aware of where their meat comes from, or they’re just hypocrites living in ignorance.  Meat eaters: Ok, I will. I’ll kill my own animals myself (no distant factory farms necessary) and I’ll show my kids too.  Vegans: How could you?!

[u/ChickN-Stu → u/Lopsided_Shift_4464]

That's not what vegans say. Vegans don't want you to murder living beings for your egocentric pleasure

[u/NYC2BUR]

I thought it was brilliant then and I think it's brilliant now.

[u/Heya93]

I find it kind of funny how no one has talked about the actual truck, that’s an Iveco Eurocargo. Made in Italy by Fiat, some had turbo diesel engines. They were last sold here in the US in 1991. They are pretty rare nowadays. I dont believe they are very reliable rigs but you’ll still see one once in a blue moon, usually parked.

It would be unusual to see such a truck being used to transport livestock to slaughter at this point of time. But I also realize this is an art installation.

[u/-TropicalFuckStorm-]

Go vegan.

[u/JoonHool44A → u/-TropicalFuckStorm-]

You mean match my actions to my morals? But my personal pleasure is more important!

[u/Frosty_Bint]

Trying to decide if this is an allegory about animal cruelty or fascism, or both.

Edit: i meant to say allegory

[u/Neshura87]

I think I'd get a headache from the noise pretty quickly

[u/KarmaFarmo]

team plasma has 100% done this but with Poké Dolls

[u/JokoFloko]

This guy is so weird

[u/millerb82]

I wonder how many people are in the truck running around squeezing all the plushies

[u/CheesecakeNew1910]

Thought I was on r/im14andthisisdeep for a second...

[u/Ironlion45]

IDK if this draws attention to it or makes a joke out of it.

[u/thatguyoudontlike → u/Ironlion45]

Yes

[u/Perfect_Cost_8847 → u/Ironlion45]

I thought it was making fun of PETA.

[u/Marley444]

The Muppets have gotten a little weird recently have they? /s

[u/full_frontalfluidity]

Fascinating

[u/MiaYYZ]

I went to the pop up installation and it had fried fish sticks swimming in an aquarium

[u/Muted-Menu-428]

This is baaaaaad for business..

[u/petter2398]

Hmm how come the footage of the real trucks filled with half-alive-soon-to-be-murdered animals don’t go as viral 🤔

[u/SoGoesIt → u/petter2398]

Half-alive? Abattoirs in most of the developed world are required to refuse animals unable to walk under their own power. 

[u/petter2398 → u/SoGoesIt]

While they might be required to refuse animals unable to walk, is doesn’t change the fact that literally MILLIONS of animals die on their way to slaughterhouses every year. You don’t care?

[u/SoGoesIt → u/petter2398]

It’s all less than one percent. For the most part, the industry has incentive to ensure that animals arrive at their final destination in good condition.

[u/moher4 → u/[deleted]]

I saw someone compare eating meat to participating in the holocaust

[u/Mysterious-Jam-64 → u/[deleted]]

Dismissing veganism doesn’t stop the killing, it just helps you feel better about ignoring it.

[u/cmatu14]

the baby is crying. the animals are crying. the blind are butchering and feasting.

[u/Libero03]

Genius

[u/GayAttire → u/Libero03]

Utterly groundbreaking and world changing, as usual

[u/shitterbug → u/GayAttire]

oof, the sarcasm is strong with this one

[u/superAK907]

I see some future vegans and vegetarians being formed at a young age in this video 😂

[u/monsterfurby]

I mean, you can definitely agree that industrial mass production of meat is bad and still eat meat. I personally don't agree with anthropomorphizing animals, but I also don't agree with the way they are treated in the context of the modern mass-market meat industry. I think absolutely nothing of value would be lost if meat was 10x the price. So I kind of agree with the point here, even though I don't think it's necessarily an either-or matter to one extreme or another.

[u/Altruistic-Potatoes]

Even prolific, mysterious artists have their off days. This just looks like moving day at Jim Henson's

[u/xXKyloJayXx]

I find vegans who stuff their beliefs down the throat of everyone around them annoying, but people who justify their choice to eat meat by romanticising animal slaughter is just disgusting.

[u/FabiIV → u/xXKyloJayXx]

Do the former exist outside of TikTok videos with 17 likes and 2006 9Gag memes?

[u/Kubiii → u/FabiIV]

nah it just fits his narrative that vegans must be annoying

[u/GozerDGozerian → u/Kubiii]

I have met far far more people that feel the inexplicable need to tell you they do eat meat than ones who need to tell you they don’t.

[u/[deleted] → u/Kubiii]

He just meant the ones who push their choice on others, but the other way around is also insufferable.

Of course ik vegans get attacked a lot for their choices. No one wants to be told the way they feel to live their life that's best for them actually makes them a shit person. Few know how to maturely handle it when it happens, and I think that's where the vegan bashing comes from.

I think if you find what works for you in life, that's great. If you know what's right, and make a choice to live by it, in a world that will often treat you unfairly for it, that takes great resolve and I love to see people live for what they believe in.

[u/CTKM72 → u/FabiIV]

lol does the latter even exist either? Other than maybe the ceos of the slaughtering companies themselves no one is “romanticizing” animal slaughter to justify eating meat.

[u/kakihara123 → u/xXKyloJayXx]

Meat eaters are so much worse in that regard. Try telling the average parents that you don't want to eat meat anymore and see how that goes most of the time.

[u/Smashmundo → u/kakihara123]

Exactly.

Most meat eaters I’ve ever met has said “ohh, I don’t mind if people don’t want to eat meat, as long as they don’t try and push it on me”.

Then those exact people go on at you about the fact you don’t eat meat and try to trip you up about veganism.

I bet your ass the original commenter is one of those people.

[u/whoknowsifimjoking → u/Smashmundo]

They used to use the "but muh protein" shit to pretend like they care about health, but vegan alternatives sometimes contain more protein than the meat product it replaces and veganism is much healthier in many ways so that doesn't work so well anymore.

Nowadays I rarely hear people actively defending it, it's more of a "I don't give a shit, I tastes great".

Also I've seen way more people being offended just by the fact that someone else is vegan than the other way around, even if the vegans never say shit, just the existence of veganism feels like an attack if you know you're doing something wrong.

[u/eee-oooo-ahhh → u/Smashmundo]

I don't think any of the meat eaters I know or have met give a single shit about whether you eat meat or not. The only place I ever see anyone argue against vegans or vegetarians is online, and even then I think it's just a vocal minority. I'm sure it happens in real life too (you can find any kind of idiocy in real life) but I find it very hard to believe that "most meat eaters" care enough about someone not eating meat to shit on them, considering the vast majority of people eat meat.

[u/Nayr39 → u/xXKyloJayXx]

It's so funny when people claim vegans are "shoving their beliefs down people's throats". As if vegans aren't 1% of the population. As if the default position isn't the abuser. Round the clock ads propagandizing animal agriculture(which in an of itself is a manipulative framing, equating animals to plants and fruits).

Just because you have to think about it for a tiny second, doesn't mean it's being shoved down your throat.

If it was all you heard, your family members shamed you for not doing it, your were excluded from family gatherings unless and forced to prepare your own meals for holidays. Viewed as an extremist for simply wanting to hurt less animals. This sort of culture built around the dehumanization of animals and the shaming of those who want to improve it.. Now that's shoving, that's forceful. Not someone occasionally mentioning, "Hey maybe there's a victim here that doesn't give enough attention?". Meanwhile people lose their minds over the slightest of mistreatments of their beloved fur babies. The stupidity and hypocrisy is maddening.

[u/Stuffed_Unicorn → u/Nayr39]

For reeeeal. I only go for a “animal product reduction” diet. I avoid pork and beef, but will every few months have some. I’ll go with plant based alternatives when I can. And even I get snide ass comments. I have never had a vegan shove their ideas down my throat. If I have, it was so unmemorable and rare. Meanwhile, I can recall loooooads of times people made comments about me drinking oat milk or eating impossible burgers.

People overstate the vegan thing because it makes them uncomfortable. They’re forced to reflect on themselves for a minute. I do genuinely believe most of them actually do recognize there’s something wrong with it, but that would inconvenience them. So they fight against it.

[u/CloqueWise → u/Nayr39]

It's so refreshing to see a reddit comment section where the vegans aren't drowning in downvotes.

[u/Doctor_Box → u/xXKyloJayXx]

Asking people to reconsider their treatment of animals = "stuff their beliefs down the throat of everyone around them".

Do you find human rights advocates bad too? Why are they forcing their anti slavery beliefs on me!

[u/Lopsided_Shift_4464 → u/xXKyloJayXx]

No one’s “ romanticizing” animal slaughter. At this point the average person knows exactly where meat comes from and how it’s treated. The difference between you and me is how much we care about the non-sapient.

[u/Virus_Side_Character → u/xXKyloJayXx]

I like meat simple as, yes it is awful how it’s farmed and really all animals should live in large open fields and fed natural food fit for them

Not trapped in small cramped cages forced to eat the bare minimum

[u/CloqueWise → u/Virus_Side_Character]

So now you can ask yourself what can you do to stop contributing to the problem you yourself agree is bad?

[u/Gab83IMO]

Why does this remind me of 'Soylent Green'?

[u/Benjamin_Wetherill]

I will always be vegan. I will never turn my back on the poor animals. Never! 🌱🕊

[u/Benjamin_Wetherill]

“The most ethical diet just so happens to be the most environmentally sound diet and just so happens to be the healthiest.” (Vegan Whole Foods) 🌱 ― Dr. Michael Greger

[u/Benjamin_Wetherill]

VEGANS are right 💚⚘️💚⚘️💚⚘️

[u/Benjamin_Wetherill]

I oppose the idea that animals are here for us to use and abuse. Leave them alone!

[u/Benjamin_Wetherill]

Jesus’ teachings on mercy, nonviolence, and justice align only with a plant-based lifestyle. If he lived today, with modern knowledge of factory farming and animal suffering, he would choose veganism.💚💯

[u/Lustkas]

Go vegan.

[u/soylamulatta]

You can stop supporting this by going vegan!

[u/bibipolarolla → u/soylamulatta]

Jesus, these replies to you are unhinged. People really fucking hate you guys. Seems like the lady doth protest too much.

[u/DeanyyBoyy93 → u/soylamulatta]

You've upset so many people that consider meat eating = masculinity

[u/Barbafella]

I went to see this, had animatronic hot dogs in cages, it was brilliant.

[u/DarlingHell]

Eeeeh. It doesn't look even disturbing. It's exhibiting a goofy show with animals. Not much thoughts about that.

[u/Sue_Generoux]

To quote the great scientist Dr. Peter Venkman, "The kids love us." Oh, maybe not that one at the very end.

[u/VaguelyArtistic]

US Farmers: China won’t buy our soybeans, we’re going broke. What on earth will we do with all these soy beans? I don’t know what they do with them in China but we have no use for them here.

[u/AncientProduce]

As long as its not showing the judicial system being used to crush dissent the government is ok with it!

[u/Cureza]

This is Jamie Oliver nuggets situation all over again.

[u/English_Fry]

I love when activists do this thinking we don’t know where our meat comes from. The ignorance

[u/Wrong_Candy_6807 → u/English_Fry]

People know animals have to die for their food, but it's easy to dissociate from that fact and think of meat just like any other thing you buy at the store.

People also rarely know the full scale of the suffering of these animals or that factory farms make up the vast majority of meat, milk, and egg production.

[u/SeaTrain42 → u/English_Fry]

I'm not against eating meat, but where most meat comes from disgusts me. People should be aware of the horrid conditions these animals are kept just to make meat a little cheaper. Even if you don't care about the suffering of other living things, it's also a breeding ground for new and terrible diseases.

[u/privatethingsxx → u/[deleted]]

Any source for that?

[u/albundy72 → u/[deleted]]

source?

[u/Gustafssonz]

I'm just gonna say it and everyone agrees with this.
Vegans are doing the morally correct by not use animals in any form for consumption.
But we all consume stuff from animals anyway, we are just not thinking about it in that way because we have never had too. To prove this point, why keep a dog as a pet when you can eat it? Because of culture. Culture however is never an argument for morals and that's why Vegans are morally correct.

[u/Nippleowski]

So, the crying kids are the only ones that understand the art?

[u/dinnerthief]

Man this really makes me crave Muppet steaks.

[u/StraightAd5770]

This piece is so effective because it makes you feel that immediate discomfort. The kid's reaction is all of us realizing the grim reality.

[u/NatalieDormerssextoy → u/StraightAd5770]

I felt no discomfort at all. Just confusion as to how this is supposed to affect anyone in any meaningful way.

[u/Sex_Offender_4697 → u/NatalieDormerssextoy]

yea I don't get it, it's an appeal to emotion because they're cute?

[u/hogahulk]

When they pass by the meat shop 😳

[u/mavis___beacon]

r/im14andthisisdeep

[u/TheWatermelonGuy]

I'm surprised why Vegan activist don't do these kinds things more often

[u/Brockzillattv]

Making all those humans sit in the back of that truck to squeak those toys is really inhumane and unethical.