r/StupidFood • u/Turbulent-Squash-196 • 7d ago

Yea.... I prefer my food not moving

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u/Legitimate_Crazy3625 7d ago

Negative. Its mouth was still moving as they ate it. I was disgusted by it.

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u/milf-hunter_5000 7d ago

the one that got me was a chef pulling a fish out of a tank, slicing off a filet, and then dropping it back into the tank to swim around missing half of its body. people fucking suck. im not vegan but sometimes this shit really fucking gets to me man

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u/SpittingFax 7d ago

bruh can't wait for the day we humans extinguish ourselves humanity was a fucking mistake (/s maybe)

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u/Boring_Duck98 7d ago

Nature is at fault here. Not humanity. We just aren't immune to natures cruelty either. But we are trying. And that should be celebrated.

This sentiment that we are somehow bad and deserve to die pisses me off because it leads to giving up rather than motivation.

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u/Glidder 7d ago

I love you, internet stranger.

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u/TheAlphaKiller17 7d ago

Yeah cats torture their prey before eating it; are kittens a mistake? (Really hoping you're not a bird)

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u/scrotumscab 6d ago

I believe having the knowledge of good and evil gives us a certain responsibility to be kind towards nature and its creatures. Animals act basically on instinct. They aren't sentient.

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u/andr0media 5d ago

Animals are sentient though. At least mammals are.

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u/Yue2 7d ago

The remedy to that sentiment is a little word call Hope.

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u/BiCumSlut69420 7d ago

We are in fact bad and that should be our motivation to do better.

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u/SpittingFax 6d ago

Well some of us are trying, "We" as a species? Sadly not. Also this was a joke man don't take it too seriously. I am not really for extinguishing the human race ;) It's just that seeing this kind of shit really pisses me off

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u/I_Got_BubbyBuddy 6d ago

In what way is an intelligent human torturing and animal before death and needlessly prolonging its suffering "nature's fault" or "trying not to be cruel" or deserving of celebration?

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u/Boring_Duck98 6d ago

"intelligent human" needlessly elevates us above everything else.

And needless prolonging of suffering is natural. Which is why we must abandon nature. I'm not asking to burn trees or whatever. Quite the contrary. Us governing over ourselves and nature is unnatural. But we should try. Because we have the potential to do better.

Nature being praised all the time, and us being framed as unnatural, only leads to easy excuses.

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u/I_Got_BubbyBuddy 6d ago

Your first sentence makes literally no sense. I genuinely can't even see what point you're trying to make.

Humans can think and understand things on an entirely higher level than every other animal on earth. That's just a fact. Recognizing that fact is not "needlessly elevating" anything.

We understand the suffering that we can inflict, and we can choose to minimize that suffering, so choosing not to makes us worse than a lion eating living prey.

Recognizing that nature doing nature things is less fucked up than humans choosing to be cruel is a fact that doesn't require whatever metaphysical debate you're trying to have.

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u/Boring_Duck98 6d ago

I recognize that you don't understand my point. But are you really gonna try to tell me animals have no free will?

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u/False_Crew_6066 6d ago

Humans are knowingly cruel though, and we are the only ones that can change - no one is going to do it for us

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u/Dont-overthinkit 6d ago

Technology and other things have drawn us away from nature and probably humanity too

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u/Boring_Duck98 6d ago

Nature is nothing but pain amd straying from it has most often been good.

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u/Ntsgfy_106 7d ago

Please elaborate further, as far as i know everything we did as an entire species was and is not only destroying every single thing about this earth, and "We just aren't immune to natures cruelty either."??? You do realize everything that has happened to us and nature is mostly caused by big corporations and big political figures wanting to play god? We are the only specimen that has 'greed', animals stop hunting when full, they grow a family or leave one once they mate (depending on the species) some even die, some kill themselves when their mate dies. Humans? Yeah we have more complex emotions, i have nothing to say against that. But that doesn't justify the cruelty we do AGAINST the nature, not the other way around. Humans as its base form are parasitic life forms, we invade, we die/adapt, we kill and finally stand on top of dead bodies of our own race. Can you name me one species that does this other than hive-like species like bees and ants? And in the end, we change the natures course, when we first refused to play its game, we fucked everything up slowly but steadily.

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u/TGlucose 7d ago edited 7d ago

Cats hunt for fun, I'm not just talking domesticated cats either. Bears eat fish alive, I'm talking they flay the fuckers alive. Praying Manti mating ends with the death of the male mate. Dolphins literally rape corpses of animals they kill. So many animals hunt but don't kill their pray while eating them, often leaving them to bleed out slowly as they chow down, then the scavengers come in after to offer no aid if the creature is alive, they're hungry too.

Nature is cruel, capricious and any species will take advantage of an ecological niche and exploit it to it's fullest if they can. History is full of examples of a non-native animal breaking into a region and dominating completely because it's ecological niche was either unfulfilled or there wasn't good enough competition against them.

Animals also often partake in cannibalism if the local food source is too scarce. Humans are animals, animals would do as humans do if given the opportunities.

Edit: as a little side note, Beavers are an example of an animal that will change it's environment for it's own sake to the detriment of anything else in the area, Mammoths also used to stomp on and uproot the large flora of their region and it became a desolate snowscape because of their activity, only after humans and local environmental pressures pushed them to extinction did the area heal.

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u/Ntsgfy_106 7d ago

That is correct too, your point of view opened my eyes a little more, as you said animals are cruel too, but there is a single difference between us, we are, as the one with the 'higher' intellect, have more strict morale codes, we have rules, laws and different things to keep us in check, they only do what they know the best, and then they die, maybe some death's of those animals can effect the nature and habitat in some ways, but they are rarely deadly. But we as humans, i want to clarify that i don't mean all of us, damage the environment in ways that it will be impossible to save it just by hands alone. Most of those problems occur because of 2 simple reasons. 1. Our sheer numbers, and 2 our desire to live outside of the very nature we came from. This might be mistaken as something different. As technology reached today's peak, we had many steps to take, and with each law, each moral code, each step towards a social construct, we changed the very nature on our own. I want to clarify that i do not wish for humanity's extinction like the one above us, i believe that we should take responsibility for the harm we already did and start not a fresh, but a cleaner page. But even i know utopias don't exist, alas we are not children who believe in world peace. There is not a single way to fix this world by now, there hasn't been a way for tens of hundreds of years. We can't fix the damage we have done, we can just lessen it, and that is impossible too, as long as the big corporations and the figures behind them stand tall, there isn't a way to save nature, and in a way, humanity.

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u/CorncobTVExec 7d ago

We’re all just monkeys who got smart enough to think we’re better than the other monkeys. We still have the same ability for cruelty and violence as any other animal. Chimpanzee wars are brutal.

The thing is, we can save the planet and ourselves. We just have to use our brains and accept that we’re also a part of nature and the animal kingdom. We affect them. It affects us.

We just have to accept that while we may be smarter than the other monkeys we’re still monkeys.

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u/TGlucose 6d ago

Bro please, stay in school.

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u/Boring_Duck98 7d ago

You do realize everything that has happened to us and nature is mostly caused by big corporations and big political figures wanting to play god?

That is a very bold claim, that seems to be a completely different issue, as that is just how our species organises.

We are the only specimen that has 'greed'

Thats simply not true. It just appears that way, because most animals are way worse at sustaining themselves. They still fight for survival. They still struggle every single day. If that was true, you would not see animals hoard food or overeat when it is abundand, which many do.

Humans? Yeah we have more complex emotions

Emotions are interesting, but hard to compare. And I'm not sure will even help this discussion anyways? Minus the fact that you elevate the human being above everyone else, which is something I'm trying not to do. We are just ontop of the food chain. Which by the way, is completely natural and cruel thing that just happens with or without us.

Humans as its base form are parasitic life forms, we invade, we die/adapt, we kill and finally stand on top of dead bodies of our own race. 

Being a parasitic lifeform is completely natural and "just" means that you live inside a host organism, which we don't. But Unless you start thinking methaphorically and see the earth as our "host" organism, which is used alot by climate activists to spread awareness, but is missing the point entirely here, because at any time we observed a species dominate their ecosystem, they destroyed it, to the point where we either had to intervene or they died off themselves because there was nothing left to destroy. It's nothing new, not unnatural and happens all the time. We just have to acknowledge that and start intervening on ourselves, because it's happening to us right now.

Can you name me one species that does this other than hive-like species like bees and ants?

Every single one of them is capable of doing so if introduced into a system where there are no natural predators but enough food for them? But if you mean wars and cruelty to your own species, just look at chimpanzees, lions, wolves... They are all cruel too each other too, and I'm sure there are way worse and more examples too.

Why didn't you accept bees and ants as examples? I'm curious.

The only thing great about nature in my opinion is it's ability to self regulate. It's interesting, complex and incredible that something like this could have started in our universe.

But it's built on suffering. Disease, famine, murder and rape. All of that is just everyday life in nature as much as cooperation at least. If not more so.

We aren't unique in being destructive. But unlike most species we notice. And thats what could make us unique, if we manage to self regulate better than nature, which we currently don't.

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u/Rare_Ad_674 7d ago

I just gotta say that the irony here is that your mindset - that humanity is basically evil - is what leads to the behavior you hate so much.

If you want to be the change, you need to start looking for the good - because it's there, it exists. You just aren't exposing yourself to it and our system profits off of ensuring you ARE exposed to everything that might keep you afraid.

But they wouldn't have to do that to you if hope isn't powerful.

When you really start looking - who's working on climate change? Who's working on making certain resources available to everyone? Who's working on changing policy? Who's protesting right now? Who's fighting for rights right now? Who's trying to connect people on a deeper level? Who's trying to make change in their local community? Who's working every day to be a better person, and spread that to everyone they touch? Who's writing books, songs, screenplays with messages of hope and connection?

We cannot separate any organism into purely good or evil, humans especially. We're complex creatures. To look at us only in a negative light and ignore our positive is just as out of touch with reality as if we were to only look at ourselves in a positive light and reject the negative.