If we agree that we shouldn't show graphic footage to children, shouldn't we also let them make an informed choice about whether or not to participate when they're old enough? Because if the footage is that disturbing, it's clearly worth thinking about.

Was just reading a particularly infuriating thread on Reddit and I felt the need to rant.

If what happens to animals is *not* brutal and disturbing, why is street activism showing footage of it not okay? If it *is* brutal, why are you mad at the fact that you're viewing it, and not mad at the fact that it's happening?

If graphic footage from the animal industries is something we should keep away from our children (and I agree with this), isn't that an implicit admission that you think you do think it is traumatizing and on some level, wrong? If the true cost of the choice to eat meat is something we need to shield children from, why are we making them participate by proxy in this violence against animals without them being fully aware of what they're doing? Isn't that something they should make an informed choice about when they're old enough to understand?

And yet, having your children be vegan is forcing your views on them, but making them eat meat isn't.