Veganism

Minor RebuttalsDirect quotation(R3):"On B12 deficiency: Yes many vegans are deficient, so are many meat eaters."But a higher percent of vegans have b12 defficiancy, which was my point. This quote does nothing.Direct quotation(R3):"They imply that animals are inferior to us...So what?"Pro concedes to the fact that humans are superior to animals, please keep this in mind. On the "so what?" part, I typed up that argument to prove that animals don't deserve the same rights as us.Direct quotation(R3):"All animals are sentient, so there is no excuse to abuse them, any more than a Nazi had an excuse for the holocaust."I will reiterate what I said in R1, Jews are superior to animals because they are human, so yes the Nazi's had no excuse. It is also time to stop comparing killing animals to eat and killing people just cause. Direct quotation(R3):"It doesn't matter if it involves a dog, cow, rat, ant, or whale. Animal abuse is animal abuse. Just because it involves bacon, doesn't change that."Pro doesn't seem to understand that it does matter a lot. Killing animals because someone wants to is not the same as killing an animal for food. 20 point I cannot justifyPro presented 20 points on how we abuse animals, and most of these points are completely irrelevant in the context of this debate. I will now proceed to justify or refute every one of these points. Also note that PRO cites a grand total of 0 sources for these points.We brand cows without painkiller.Branding is only commonly used in small farms, when the threat of your livestock being stolen if a reality. In large companies, who produce most of the meat, branding is usually dropped for ear tags. Furthermore, branding only hurts for a second at most, then the end of the nerves are burnt(they come back) off, so you cannot feel pain. This information comes from humans who have been branded.We rape them with bull semen.Rape is defined as "unlawfulsexualintercourseor ..."(the rest is irrelevant)(1). This is not against the law, so it cannot be rape.We clip their ears without painkiller.Ear clipping is not used now, ear tags are much more common because they can provide much more information than a clipping.We often keep them in horrible living conditions.They are animals, we owe nothing to them.We milk them to exhaustion.If we didn't milk them their udders would swell, I understand this is because we take away their calves, but we need to Milk them.We hang them upside down and slash their throats till they bleed out in a slaughterhouse.They are unconscious during this process and do not feel anything.We cut the teeth off of baby pigs, so they don't bite each other.We do not cut off the entire tooth, and this helps prevent injuries. Cutting the tooth is now dying and is not being used except when the mother is not giving milk well, causing the piglets to fight, which may lead to death.We also rip off their testicles.They cannot feel anything during this process, we also do this to our pets, ect. There isn't anything wrong with this.We kill pigs with a bolt gun. (yes, a fast death, but would you want that to happen to you?)This is sure better then getting killed by a tiger.We cut the beaks off of chicks.This is to prevent fights and cannibalism. This helps save other chicken's lives.We shred the male chicks alive into dog food.The chicks die instantly.We decapitate chickens on a conveyor belt.The chickens, again, die instantly.Other times we gas the animals we want to kill.We do this to paralyze the animals, this is similar to taking laughing gas which, as you all know, does not hurt.We go hunting, shoot innocent animals, and take pictures with their corpse as if it is something to be proud of.If you have a good enough shot to kill an animal, then that is something to be proud of. Anyways the animals that are hunting are being eaten. If they aren't then it's hunting for sport, which is irrelevant in this debate about veganism.Animals are handled with cattle prods.If the animal's don't listen, then we have to do something. And we are not sure if it hurts, because cow skin is more that 2 times thicker then ours.Circus animals are slaves, as are dairy cows.This debate is about Veganism, so circus animals are irrelevant. As for cows, they do not need to work, so they are not slaves.Minks are other animals have their necks snapped to be made into fur coats.This debate is about Veganism, so this point is irrelevant.We test harmful products on animals.This debate is about Veganism, so this point is irrelevant.We skin cows for leather.The cows are already dead, also this debate is about Veganism, so this point is irrelevant.We catch fish with painful hooks, drown them in the air and beat them against rocks.Wow such an amazing point! One flaw though, fish can't feel pain or suffer.(2)For these reasons, I urge you to vote Pro.Citation1.http://www.dictionary.com...2.https://www.sciencedaily.com...