the most pressing problem with the meat/dairy industries is the extreme amount of suffering that animals go through in their lives, and the sheer scale of it (that 56 billion land animals die per year, most of them being tortured in horrible factory farm conditions)
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if you invoke the problem of other minds and have no answer for it, then sure, but that's just as relevant as invoking the problem of other minds to defend an industry that tortures human-beings
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which is to say, it isn't relevant. putting aside the problem of other minds, we have every reason to believe animals are sentient just like us, but no reason to believe that plants are
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okay
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