“Meat” describes wild venison and grass raised cattle as well as factory farmed meat. Factory farmed meat is akin to an animal holocaust, sure, but what happens to deer if we stop eating them is worse than that. First the population explodes, and with increased proximity to each other, diseases such as CWD also explode amongst the deer population. Good grazing land dwindles as deer slowly starve to death while a growing portion of them live as literal zombies due to CWD. The best case scenario is that the wild predators return and torture them all to death by eating them ass-first. There HAS to be a predator to prevent this, and humans are the more humane predator. As a side note, all of those happy grass raised cattle simply disappear without their consumption, because modern cattle cannot survive in the wild.
Most meat eaters are too chicken shit and lazy to slaughter their own food. I certainly don’t have the stomach to, which is why my meat eating is rapidly approaching zero
I have shot, gutted, skinned, butchered and processed more animals that most people have laid eyes on in their lifetimes. I’ve either raised or hunted nearly every bit of meat I’ve eaten in the last 15 years, and given way more of it away to food banks and needy neighbors than I’ve eaten myself.
But I agree, people should be prepared to kill their own meat, it makes them appreciate it more.
I mean, if you wanted to get the largest number of people to stop eating animals, the #1 thing would be donating money to lab-grown meat research, or at least getting other people to, rather than engaging in online arguments in a way that immediately causes people to get defensive and emotional. Sure, it’s not doing anything yet, but the second it becomes less expensive than traditional meat (and that can’t be hard, since you’re only growing the flesh you want, rather than an entire fucking animal, it will be much more efficient given time), that’s almost immediately going to sway a lot of people who do not give a shit about the ethics or morality of it, but do care about their budgets or bottom lines.
But hey at least you’re not rounding up those ticks whose bite makes you allergic to red meat in order to do an eco-terrorism (8chan’s /leftypol/ has just as much brainrot as the rest of that site), since a) that would cause an immense backlash and b) the difference would just be made up in chicken and fish anyway.
“Youre going about it all wrong: this method is how you convince people to stop slitting innocent animals throats. I know this method works because it didnt work on me.” fyi if I could snap my fingers and somehow force everyone to leave animals alone I’d do it in a heartbeat, wouldnt you do the same to end all murder?
I mean, it’s been scientifically shown that antagonistically trying to change someone’s mind only serves to harden their existing views and make them less open to thinking about it. e.g. at this point I’m deliberately avoiding reading your response again, because all it provokes is my anger issues, all that achieves is putting me in a state where you are The Enemy and neither morality or ethics are considerations, and I try to avoid that with people I largely agree with but have one major sticking point against these days.
I’ve been in a similar position with urbanist/FuckCars stuff, where no matter how many arguments you make about how the suburbs are a blight upon the cities they parasitise and we need to densify now, how cars have no right being the #1 method of transportation within cities, or how SUVs should be banned within city limits, the carbrained suburbanite will ignore them all and continue going about their lifestyle without a thought about it. You can’t reason someone out of a position they didn’t reason themselves into.
But you can always tap into the fear that comes with “this will economically ruin you if you keep doing this” and as such, high petrol prices are one hell of a gift for getting people to start catching public transport and/or biking, at least the ones who live in places where such a thing is physically possible. We’re in the middle of a cost of living crisis, where the average person is getting evermore squeezed for what little they have, and you still can’t shift your angle of attack from “you’re a terrible person and you should feel bad” to “meat is the most expensive part of your diet and here are alternative ways to get that flavour/texture that cost far less (and incidentally are 100% plant)” and then work on them from there?
Just saying, the average(/mode) person using any English-language space on the internet a) is used to dishes where the meat, or at least some kind of fancy, dairy-based sauce, is the focal point and b) has no idea what the state of fake meat/meat alternatives is like right now.
at the end of the day no matter what vegans do our existence is a threat to the cognitive dissonance of meat eaters, I have two options: I can be so nonchalant that it seems like I’m actually ok with people killing animals needlesly and therefore theres no reason to question their beliefs or I can actually put a bit of passion into my defense of animals and risk people like you for some reason getting annoyed that my advocacy isnt effective? (Like if you are against veganism why correct me while im making a mistake right clearly theres something else going on here psychologically why you feel the need to correct me) Meanwhile lots of people actually do change their mind on veganism from a no nonsense approach see people like joey carbstrong and earthling ed for examples of how that can be done well
Also disgusting that people think that paying for an innocent animal to die is somehow capitalisms fault
You telling me I should be butchering my own meat? Cuz I’d do it if I was allowed and had access to the tools and space to do it.
no. meat is murder https://watchdominion.org
“Meat” describes wild venison and grass raised cattle as well as factory farmed meat. Factory farmed meat is akin to an animal holocaust, sure, but what happens to deer if we stop eating them is worse than that. First the population explodes, and with increased proximity to each other, diseases such as CWD also explode amongst the deer population. Good grazing land dwindles as deer slowly starve to death while a growing portion of them live as literal zombies due to CWD. The best case scenario is that the wild predators return and torture them all to death by eating them ass-first. There HAS to be a predator to prevent this, and humans are the more humane predator. As a side note, all of those happy grass raised cattle simply disappear without their consumption, because modern cattle cannot survive in the wild.
Tasty, tasty murder.
That reminds me, I should take out a moose roast for dinner.
“it gives me pleasure” is the logic of a rapist
https://imgur.com/svLUsrQ.png
Most meat eaters are too chicken shit and lazy to slaughter their own food. I certainly don’t have the stomach to, which is why my meat eating is rapidly approaching zero
I have shot, gutted, skinned, butchered and processed more animals that most people have laid eyes on in their lifetimes. I’ve either raised or hunted nearly every bit of meat I’ve eaten in the last 15 years, and given way more of it away to food banks and needy neighbors than I’ve eaten myself.
But I agree, people should be prepared to kill their own meat, it makes them appreciate it more.
I mean, if you wanted to get the largest number of people to stop eating animals, the #1 thing would be donating money to lab-grown meat research, or at least getting other people to, rather than engaging in online arguments in a way that immediately causes people to get defensive and emotional. Sure, it’s not doing anything yet, but the second it becomes less expensive than traditional meat (and that can’t be hard, since you’re only growing the flesh you want, rather than an entire fucking animal, it will be much more efficient given time), that’s almost immediately going to sway a lot of people who do not give a shit about the ethics or morality of it, but do care about their budgets or bottom lines.
But hey at least you’re not rounding up those ticks whose bite makes you allergic to red meat in order to do an eco-terrorism (8chan’s /leftypol/ has just as much brainrot as the rest of that site), since a) that would cause an immense backlash and b) the difference would just be made up in chicken and fish anyway.
“Youre going about it all wrong: this method is how you convince people to stop slitting innocent animals throats. I know this method works because it didnt work on me.” fyi if I could snap my fingers and somehow force everyone to leave animals alone I’d do it in a heartbeat, wouldnt you do the same to end all murder?
I mean, it’s been scientifically shown that antagonistically trying to change someone’s mind only serves to harden their existing views and make them less open to thinking about it. e.g. at this point I’m deliberately avoiding reading your response again, because all it provokes is my anger issues, all that achieves is putting me in a state where you are The Enemy and neither morality or ethics are considerations, and I try to avoid that with people I largely agree with but have one major sticking point against these days.
I’ve been in a similar position with urbanist/FuckCars stuff, where no matter how many arguments you make about how the suburbs are a blight upon the cities they parasitise and we need to densify now, how cars have no right being the #1 method of transportation within cities, or how SUVs should be banned within city limits, the carbrained suburbanite will ignore them all and continue going about their lifestyle without a thought about it. You can’t reason someone out of a position they didn’t reason themselves into.
But you can always tap into the fear that comes with “this will economically ruin you if you keep doing this” and as such, high petrol prices are one hell of a gift for getting people to start catching public transport and/or biking, at least the ones who live in places where such a thing is physically possible. We’re in the middle of a cost of living crisis, where the average person is getting evermore squeezed for what little they have, and you still can’t shift your angle of attack from “you’re a terrible person and you should feel bad” to “meat is the most expensive part of your diet and here are alternative ways to get that flavour/texture that cost far less (and incidentally are 100% plant)” and then work on them from there?
Just saying, the average(/mode) person using any English-language space on the internet a) is used to dishes where the meat, or at least some kind of fancy, dairy-based sauce, is the focal point and b) has no idea what the state of fake meat/meat alternatives is like right now.
most vegan cuisine has nothing to do with fake meat thats only been a thing for a couple of decades at most
That’s all you have to say?
at the end of the day no matter what vegans do our existence is a threat to the cognitive dissonance of meat eaters, I have two options: I can be so nonchalant that it seems like I’m actually ok with people killing animals needlesly and therefore theres no reason to question their beliefs or I can actually put a bit of passion into my defense of animals and risk people like you for some reason getting annoyed that my advocacy isnt effective? (Like if you are against veganism why correct me while im making a mistake right clearly theres something else going on here psychologically why you feel the need to correct me) Meanwhile lots of people actually do change their mind on veganism from a no nonsense approach see people like joey carbstrong and earthling ed for examples of how that can be done well