is Charlotte's Web vegan propaganda?

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No it isn't.

In fact there's a small bit inside where the ethics of killing another animal for food is discussed by Charlotte and Wilbur after Wilbur sees Charlotte catch a fly in her web. Wilbur is shocked that she will kill and eat it, but she says that it's necessary for her to do so in order to live. Despite understanding that it's something that must be done, he's still unnerved by it, and Charlotte promises that she won't kill bugs in front of him.

Good books for kids are often much heavier than we give them credit for.
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I don't think so. It's really a classic story and devoid of the typical woke agenda you see in modern tales. It seems to simply be about a highly empathetic girl that saves a pig runt from being killed. I say this because at no point do they address the general act of slaughtering livestock for food, just the culling of this newborn piglet for being a runt. The father is still portrayed positively, he is not a bad man but just a man of pragmatics and tradition. Even he comes around towards ultimately supporting his daughter's interest. I feel like if Disney made an adaptation now they'd villainize him and make it about all these agendas.
 
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No it isn't.

In fact there's a small bit inside where the ethics of killing another animal for food is discussed by Charlotte and Wilbur after Wilbur sees Charlotte catch a fly in her web. Wilbur is shocked that she will kill and eat it, but she says that it's necessary for her to do so in order to live. Despite understanding that it's something that must be done, he's still unnerved by it, and Charlotte promises that she won't kill bugs in front of him.

Good books for kids are often much heavier than we give them credit for.
 
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theshitposter said:
that's THE LITERAL plot, saving the pig from becoming christmas dinner
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As I remember, Wilbur was a runt and was going to be killed because he was seen as worthless to everyone but a kind-hearted girl. E.B. White doesn't seem to have any strong political bias, though he may have been influenced by some more or less liberal ideas having gone to Cornell and having written for the New Yorker. The most his works seem to say is "treat everyone nicely" and "give everyone a chance", which are good morals for children's books.
 
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