True enough, but I’m struggling to see where the trauma is at here at all, secondary or otherwise. I mean yes, animal abuse is awful, and factory farming goes well beyond abuse, but there’s a gulf between “posting pictures of factory farming” and “posting pictures of a brisket.” I’m genuinely not trying to say that anyone’s trauma is invalid, I just struggle to see where “a picture of meat” is genuinely traumatic to anyone. Uncomfortable? Absolutely. Disgusting? I can definitely understand. But traumatic? It’s a big word that has real weight behind it and I think it’s important to keep it that way. We aren’t talking about people here, we’re talking about animals. Do I think animals should have rights? Yeah definitely. Do I think it’s appropriate to anthropomorphize them and equate animal struggles to human struggles? No chance, and I think that equating the two as if they’re the same is harmful to all of the humans who are struggling too. So I think my main point is that I don’t see how a well-removed-from-the-process picture of an animal that may or may not have struggled at all is going to be traumatic and triggering to a human. I’m not seeing the connection; humans are not factory farmed anywhere in the world, and humans and animals are not the same.

If this is something that IS traumatic to you, sorry that I’m not understanding, and please note that I have no expectation that you relive it just to try to help me understand either. Not trying to debate bro you either, I think it’s an interesting topic and I’m happy to learn something from the process.