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Absolutely correct, except for confusing expert knowledge with tradition.

Science has been and can be cruel. But a layman watching a youtube clip about farm practices is hardly the person I trust to make a judgement on preferred practices, anymore than a I trust a layman to comment on engineering or medicine.

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An expert in farming has a conflict of interest in determining whether using animals for humans is ethical.

Sure, I'd trust a farmer on the most "effective" way to artificially inseminate a cow, but I don't need to study farming to say the instrument known as the "rape rack" is immoral.

I argue they're standing too close to see the big picture.

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