rant time, copied from this comment:
as someone who recently switched back to eating meat after eleven years and fucking hates it, i can tell you one absolute downside of making sane, ethical dietary choices for that long: you end up despairing at the state of western culture even more than you did before.
it eats a fucking pit in your heart hearing "i eat it because i like it, fuck you for judging me" and "i'm at the top of the food chain! nevermind the science, i have an opinion! rarrrr!" every goddamn day.
you go out to dinner with people you like and respect and have to bite your tongue at seeing them do something that isn't just your opinion, it's not just some wacky tangent at the fringe of society, no. it's something that is, by the numbers, thrashing the fucking planet just like almost everything else we do. just another blind, unthinking way for us to march closer to eventual doom and they have the gall to say "well i do it because i like it" like it's a matter of fucking convenience instead of a big picture problem that causes widespread deforestation, pollution, and waste -- not to mention the needless torture, because we can't even be bothered to kill an animal cleanly anymore.
but no, you're preachy if you bring that up. you're sanctimonious not for telling people to be perfect but just to think about it a little, to try to make the world better when they can. christ, all it is is that you're pissed off at people being stupid, so sorry if it sounds a bit angry or bitter from time to time -- it's a lot of stress to stay polite most of the time. nobody's perfect.
but hey, that's just my opinion. part of me is glad to just be able to shut up and eat what's on the menu now -- finally getting it all off my chest and not having to fight that battle anymore is probably going to add years back onto my life. life's funny like that.
as someone who recently switched back to eating meat after eleven years and fucking hates it, i can tell you one absolute downside of making sane, ethical dietary choices for that long: you end up despairing at the state of western culture even more than you did before.
it eats a fucking pit in your heart hearing "i eat it because i like it, fuck you for judging me" and "i'm at the top of the food chain! nevermind the science, i have an opinion! rarrrr!" every goddamn day.
you go out to dinner with people you like and respect and have to bite your tongue at seeing them do something that isn't just your opinion, it's not just some wacky tangent at the fringe of society, no. it's something that is, by the numbers, thrashing the fucking planet just like almost everything else we do. just another blind, unthinking way for us to march closer to eventual doom and they have the gall to say "well i do it because i like it" like it's a matter of fucking convenience instead of a big picture problem that causes widespread deforestation, pollution, and waste -- not to mention the needless torture, because we can't even be bothered to kill an animal cleanly anymore.
but no, you're preachy if you bring that up. you're sanctimonious not for telling people to be perfect but just to think about it a little, to try to make the world better when they can. christ, all it is is that you're pissed off at people being stupid, so sorry if it sounds a bit angry or bitter from time to time -- it's a lot of stress to stay polite most of the time. nobody's perfect.
but hey, that's just my opinion. part of me is glad to just be able to shut up and eat what's on the menu now -- finally getting it all off my chest and not having to fight that battle anymore is probably going to add years back onto my life. life's funny like that.
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morrigan:
I'm always respectful to my vegan and vegetarian friends, questioning a diet like that is like questioning and ridiculing someones religion.-
freakpirate:
I have the code for it saved in a text document on my desktop and just paste it in. It's just become a habit now.
