Memes

Animal welfare would actively harm the vegan cause by making meat-eating less vulnerable to criticism.

(Successful regulation of animal welfare would ideally make them unable to film farm-animal abuse, as they wouldn't find any. They'd lose their most impactful recruitment tool.)

I have talked to vegans several times about this and they're very clear about one line of thinking: "As long as the animal is captive it doesn't matter how you treat the animals, what they're fed, or how much room they have. They're still captive. Vegans have one goal only, and that is to stop exploitation of animals."

And with that cleared up they move on to shift the animal welfare conversation from stricter regulation and unannounced checkups, over to arguing the bad ethics of playing Pokemon.