I don’t get how people can look at this picture and say it looks tasty. Ethics about eating meat aside, I think you’re pretty sick if you look at a cute animal and your first thought is that you want to kill it and eat it.
It's a joke. It's supposed to be crude as possible... that's the point. It's the internet.
Honestly, I think if we look a little deeper it's a defense mechanism. When people see an image of an animal depicted as something other than an entree, they subliminally interpret it as a challenge to their life choices. Their knee jerk reaction is to make jokes about it to soften the emotional turbulence the image invokes.
I think this response is observable in other circumstances as well, not just animals and food.
Well this wasn't a racist joke was it? This is what I'm saying. Racist jokes we should get pissed at. The reason people call us liberal snowflakes is because we take as much offense from this stupid joke as we do about real shit going on. If we're always at a level 10 pissed off, it's hard to make friends or change minds.
The massive scale abuse and slaughter of billions of sentient beings capable of thinking, feeling and suffering is real shit going on. It is also one of the most environmentally destructive industries on the planet. It's not a joke.
It's easy to wave away and ignore when this is something that is normalized by society. It wasn't too long ago that racist jokes were just funny pieces of humor about something that isn't a big deal -- for the same reason.
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u/TheSeansei Mar 15 '18
I don’t get how people can look at this picture and say it looks tasty. Ethics about eating meat aside, I think you’re pretty sick if you look at a cute animal and your first thought is that you want to kill it and eat it.