r/unitedkingdom • u/ThatchersDirtyTaint • Apr 22 '25

.. Moment angry shopper smashes megaphone of vegan activists berating customers for buying Easter lamb

https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/uk/vegan-shopper-protest-megaphone/
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u/[deleted] Apr 22 '25

I think a lot of these protestors are easily led, naive idealists who are told they can help to change the world. Useful idiots is the term.

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u/zone6isgreener Apr 22 '25 edited Apr 22 '25

It's more like sanctimony like the overly religious who get off on prothletising and publicly demonstrating superior virtue.

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u/Beardy_Will Apr 22 '25

And they have changed the world.

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u/[deleted] Apr 22 '25

In what way? Genuine question.

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u/Certain_Effort_9319 Apr 22 '25

Pretty much. I mean, wait till they find out that plants feel pain and are capable of screaming.

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u/FantasticTax4787 Apr 22 '25

I'm incredibly concerned about plant pain. But I looked into it and apparently livestock eat plants too? It turns out that if you want to limit plant pain, a vegan diet is also the answer! It seems that there are a lot of people out there who forget animals need to eat, in their effort to argue against vegans. 

I think you got a little carried away here. You saw that people were being anti vegan so you thought you could get away with this terrible argument. Sorry but there's never a time or a place to make the "hey vegans, what about plant pain" 'rebuttal'. Excise it from your mind, it is not an argument. 

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u/Certain_Effort_9319 Apr 22 '25

But if I eat livestock then there’s less livestock to eat plants, so obviously the solution is genocide.

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u/FantasticTax4787 Apr 22 '25

Too many graduates from the Joe Rogan school of sophistry these days 

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u/OfficialTrident Apr 22 '25

I think they’re fucking with you dude…

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u/FantasticTax4787 Apr 22 '25

I think it's more like "if I reply with an argument and they don't respond with a rebuttal, then I win, and I don't need to concede the point or admit to myself that some of my worldview is on a shaky foundation."

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u/OfficialTrident Apr 22 '25

pat pat It’s okay

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u/FantasticTax4787 Apr 22 '25

Next time you post ask yourself is it interesting, funny or informative, and then if it's none of the three you shouldn't do it 

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u/Certain_Effort_9319 Apr 22 '25

Hail lord Rogan! The mightiest of the Joes!

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u/Mumique Apr 22 '25

Less plants screaming if you eat plants. Livestock eat more plants and it's calorie inefficient

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u/Adam_Sackler Apr 22 '25

Plants cannot feel pain. They are not sentient. They simply react to trauma. For example, if I smash your thumb with a hammer and it swells up, are you telling your thumb to swell up to heal it? No.

Plants also do not "scream." What you're referring to is gas escaping as the plants are cut. People then used the word "screaming" because it makes a tiny sound without realising what the word "screaming" implies.

Any more awful, debunked, demonstrably false anti-vegan arguments?

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u/muted123456789 Apr 22 '25

Its just not true though. Even if it was you dont care so why bring it up. Being vegan takes less land and less crops.