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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Did the book inspire you to go vegan?[/quote]

What? No. Why would it?[/quote]

It could be argued that it’s an allegory for the idyllic vision of pasture-raised animals who live a good life and then have “one bad day”…

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No. I don’t think that can be argued at all. You must not have read the book very carefully. [/quote]

Interesting rebuttal.   Lesser beings (the clones) raised for their organs to be harvested by the superior beings (the non clones)… raised in lovely conditions until their parts have grown sufficiently to be useful… there is no chance the superior beings would ever consider the value of the clones lives because their own health/convenience takes precedence…

Am I thinking of the wrong book?[/quote]

Yes, because it's pretty clear in the book that the clones aren't lesser beings. [/quote]

They are *treated* as lesser beings… no wonder you are struggling with this obvious connection to animal agriculture (regardless of what the author may or may not have intended) when you read at such a surface level.[/quote]

NP. Yes they are treated as lesser beings, but[b] I agree with the PP who said that the book shows that the clones aren’t “lesser”[/b]. Or shouldn’t be considered as lesser. They have the same complex feelings, emotions, they can do art… And yeah, I admit I didn’t see any connection to animal agriculture at all. Perhaps it was a surface level read, but I also didn’t like the book (rather slow and tedious, lots of mundane descriptions that didn’t lead anywhere) so I read it quickly to get it over with. Frankly, if the author weren’t a Nobel laureate, it would’ve been a DNF. [/quote]

To be clear, the poster who was so quick to point out “but the clones AREN’T lesser beings, that’s why you’re WRONG!” was also reading the very comment to which they replied at a surface level.
 
With all due respect, no sh!t they weren’t actually lesser beings.  (The “treated as” was implied.  Or perhaps the original comment should have said “lesser beings” and “superior beings” to make it even more obvious…).

This is the same debate ethical vegans have with non-vegans, BTW.  Are cows and pigs and chickens “lesser beings” than us in the first place?  And if they are, does that give us the right to make them suffer for our own desires?[/quote]

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