:vegan-v: :soypoint-2: She’s vegan
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The entire premise of the franchise is full of contradictions and any time they try to dissect it they just make it more apparent and worse.
The anime makes it pretty blatant that a pokemon can and will leave or disobey if it wants. See Charmander just choosing to leave his abusive trainer. The games I think intend that dynamic, with some implication that pokemon who battle you are ones that want to fight and capturing is them deciding you are worthwhile, but that is so subtextual.
The anime really is the only one that makes it explicit. We see Ash get the consent of pokemon he battles with the intent of catching
They do seem to be sentient, so milk/eggs willingly given would be vegan. That isn’t to say all milk/eggs in the pokémon world are. They’re also shown eating what appears to be meat sometimes and it isn’t clear if that is pokémon or “normal” animals.
At various times throughout the series it’s stated that they’re eating a Pokemon. Pokemon G&S had the plot about Team Rocket poaching Slowpoke tails, the animated series had Ash worried that Prof Oak would eat his Crabby (turns out Oak was eating Gary’s much larger Crabby), etc.
Then again, the show used to have guns until somebody decided to retcon it and say that everyone in the Pokemon World settles their differences with Pokemon Battles, so :shrug-outta-hecks:
the soviet union resolving its differences with nazi germany by murdering them with charizards
That would depend on their ability to own their own means of production though. Like, are these independent pokemon? Do they own property? Do they have other options in life besides that? Additionally does constantly laying eggs/being pregnant cause health issues like they do for agricultural animals in our world?
egg laying takes like 1000 steps evidently and no one knows how it happens or how the pokemon lay them. So I am gonna guess it is not strenuous since that should be noticeable. That or all the daycare people really are just that dumb
The sandwich minigame in Scarlet/Violet is coy about wether or not the animal products involved animal death. Most of the fish comes from Veluza, a species which sheds excess strips of flesh to become faster and more deadly. The imitation crab is stated to only be flavored with shed Klawf shells… the “pork” is never given any excuse, but I’m assuming it’s like the Garden of Eden gag from The Simpsons where a pig offers Homer strips of bacon right off of his belly.
Carnist logic at work folks. They made the conscious decision to depict every animal in the Pokémon universe as having human-like intelligence so that even meat-eaters can truly empathize with them. Then, instead of having humans just eat vegetables or use the fictional excuse of “oh we have food replicators, so no killing necessary for this delicious tauros flesh!” they instead take cognitive dissonance to the extreme. It’s our right to eat animals god damn it! But Pokémon are so cute… Oh what if we just ate their dandruff? It’s practically an egg! It’s not surprising. This is the same company that brought you the liberal games “Black and White” whose storytelling is considered the finest in the entire franchise. And what is the storytelling? Well, when you think about it, Pokémon battling is kind of bad, so don’t think about it! Only super evil VILLAIN teams think about it. Besides, who’s to say “maybe we shouldn’t enslave pokémon” is a truthful or idealistic statement? Well it doesn’t matter; Ghetsis was behind the whole thing! So let’s enslave Pokémon. Liberal ideology at work. It’s impossible to critique the current system. :very-intelligent:
You got to appreciate the honesty of the early series where they just flat out say we are eating pokemon. I think the most fucked up one was Farfetch which they say tastes good boiled with leak (which the Farfetch convieniently carrys around with him), I think people overhunting them is used to explain their rarity.
I am going to eat arceus. It’s vegan in the same way eating the rich is vegan. I will eat God
If pokemons are so smart why zubats keep running to my flamethrower charizard? Checkmate liberals
She’s not vegan if she captures Pokemon and enslaves them to fight for her
Well lots of Pokémon are vegans presumably? At least the non-mammalian ones
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