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The Pnictogen Wing

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plural system in Seattle, WA (b. 1974)
lots of fictives from lots of media, some horses, some dragons, I dunno. the Pnictogen Wing is poorly mapped.

host: Mx. Kris Dreemurr (they/them)

chief messenger and usual front: Mx. Chara or Χαρά (they/them)

other members:
Mx. Frisk, historian (they/them)
Monophylos Fortikos, unicorn (he/him)
Kel the Purple, smol derg (xe/xem)
Pim the Dragon, Kel's sister (she/her)

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exerian
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exerian
@exerian

this kind of shit is why i laugh when i hear someone is vegan because of the way animals are tortured in the process of extracting their goods. what? and we don't torture our plants? lmao

pnictogen-wing
@pnictogen-wing

reminded of one of my favorite diagrams

it's from a 1948 paper about corn steep liquor for microbiology (https://journals.asm.org/doi/pdf/10.1128/br.12.4.297-311.1948) but it's a superb summary of the industrial processing of corn: it's scarcely a food crop and more like an industrial feedstock, torn to bits in order to get every possible useful substance out of it, even the process water (which become the "corn steep liquor" used for growing bacteria &c.) ~Χαρά

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Krake
@Krake

RIGHT? Like, no mistake the meat industry is fucked and animals deserve to be treated better, but vegans are out here being like "oh no those poor cows, good thing plants exist only to be food and provide oxygen, surely there's no evidence plants and fungi are equally alive as other creatures. 🤡"

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exerian
@exerian

i mean, i was vegan for like 2 weeks when i was 5 and realized what meat is. but then i took a hard look at what a tree is and immediately concluded they are every bit as alive and feeling. and i mean, consider mycelium. plants have had the internet for millennia. lmao

i think the take away is that moral superiority is cop behavior.

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Krake
@Krake

It's the unfortunate consequence of being such as we are, animals that must consume others to survive. We're all just trying to exist, and I wish we could go throughout our lives without harming another being, but mother nature just isn't here for that.

On the topic of moral superiority though I gotta say it's really funny how some people (typically of a conservative bend) demonstrate the same sense of superiority often ascribed to vegans for eating meat.

Anyways yes, #acab

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