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Hi, I was wondering about what fellow communists think about animal rights/ vegan ideology. I'm not vegan myself but I feel like I get the idea behind basing an ideology around the fact that factory farming/fishing is inhumane to animals. However I feel like vegans, despite criticizing carnists for justifying animal exploitation with the "there is no ethical consumption under capitalism" excuse, kind of use the same logic when it gets pointed out that avoiding meat means just paying for more exploitation and animal death in other areas because these are fundamental requirements for capitalism to continue functioning. PETA also get pretty close to a radical critique of capitalism when they point out how inhumane it is to support factory farming but then like, there are also humans being exploited and treated like animals and going vegan won't help them, so even though the ideology makes sense I don't think it's effective if not paired with radical communism. Thoughts?

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