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Originally Posted by Dezzy

How does protesting a bank note help anything or anyone?

Animals aren't killed for their fat, they're killed for their meat. The fat used to create Tallow is often a byproduct. Should we just be wasteful with the materials for the sake of faux outrage? What's the point of that? It doesn't help anyone and the same amount of animals will still be killed regardless.

The Native Americans had it right, if an animal must be killed then we must make use of as many parts of it as possible.

I'm not one of the people planning a boycott or whatever because I don't see how on earth that will work but I have to disagree with you here, I don't see what "faux outrage" has to do with anything (and if I'm being honest I think that term has become a much too convenient way of dismissing certain opinions). If someone who genuinely feels very strongly about animal rights is taking issue with this, I think it's clear that their anger is very real. I don't think there's anything anybody can really do about it and as I said, I don't see how a boycott would work (like are people just going to refuse one of these notes if they receive it with their change? I've no time for stuff like that for the sake of making a statement) but I still think people who feel this strongly about this stuff are entitled to voice their grievances with it.

Also, it's not really about people who abstain from using animal products being deluded enough to think that they're stopping animal slaughter. For example I'm under no assumption that me not eating meat has an effect on the amount of animals being killed for food. The point is that people who feel this way about animals simply don't want to be involved in using animal products in their daily life. We can choose to stop eating meat and to not wear materials from skinned animals etc but something like this takes that choice away. Nobody is eating or wearing it but they're being forced to partake in this attitude of animals being treated as not much more than materials for humans to use rather than living creatures (whether they were killed specifically for the fat or not, even being killed just for the meat this is a result of that and therefore the very thing vegetarians / vegans don't wish to be involved in).

But yeah, all of that said, it is what it is unfortunately. There comes a time when you have to just deal with the situation you have and this is one.