I agree, those things would be desirable.
I wouldn't say that I premise exploitation on consent. Afterall I'm being exploited at a minimum wage job, and that is something that I more or less consented to.
But in the case of animals, consent has to play a significant role, because a core part of their oppression is the complete absence of their bodily autonomy. There is a great deal of intersectionality between women's rights and non-human animal's rights.
https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Sexual_Politics_of_Meat.html?id=aU28CgAAQBAJ
What is this technology?
When someone is intoxicated to the point that they can't make informed consent to have relations with another person, does that give the other person the right to just declare that consent plays no role and is absurd? No, the correct response to someone being unable to consent, is that it's an automatic no. The same should apply for non-human animals.
A chicken can't consent to their eggs being taken, so they should be left alone. A cow can't consent to being artificially inseminated, so they shouldn't be forcibly impregnated just so their milk can be stolen (another thing they can't consent to).
Oh and btw, I'm reticent to even mention this because it was only an appeal to authority in the first place, but the Vegan Society has materials on their site where they talk about why raising animals for their products is unethical - and the animals being unable to consent is part of that discussion.
Would you care to elaborate on these "strict buddhists"? Provide sources please.
The myth of people needing animal proteins has been so thoroughly debunked for so long now that anyone still making that claim should not be providing dietary advice without getting properly informed.
Sounds like a good way to incentivise touching some grass.
If our ability to modify ourselves reaches sci fi levels, allowing us to photosynthesize and fix amino acids from nitrogen in the atmosphere (or if there's any hope of making that happen), then that likely will be the new vegan position.
You don't need to know what a chicken believes to recognize that their behaviours indicate they do not want others to steal their eggs.
Can you demonstrate an example of animal exploitation where consent does not play a role?
This is the thing that really bothers me about the cauliflower substitutions - that it's being used as a substitute for foods that are meant to offer macronutrients. Cauliflower on it's own has extremely low calories. It's meant to be eaten for it's micronutrients and unique plant compounds. It does not provide enough macros to sustain a person, so if someone were eating a lot of cauliflower in place of their macro-sources they would be putting themselves into a starvation state.
However if any forms of fat and oil are used in it's preparation, then it might no longer even have the weight loss benefit that might come from that.
What?
I Adventist health studies are amazing.