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We evolved to eat meats and vegetables. I won't stop eating meat because of people spamming these vegan bs. I feel the best when my diet includes a lot of animal products and will therefore continue to do so.
Not a vegan but since when is posting vegan content to a vegan community “spamming”?
Why are you even in here!?
Are you lost? Fuck off.
People eat way more meat than humans "evolved to eat" and more than is healthy. Stop pretending it's about biology. It's not. Humans are omnivores and are perfectly fine without animal products.
Eat meat if you want to, but please be honest to yourself. You don't need it, you want it. And you support unfathomable cruelty doing so. That is not "vegan bs", but reality.
I'm not vegan myself, not even strictly vegetarian. Still I can acknowledge OPs point wholeheartedly.
Brave of you to comment this in the vegan community 😅
I’m also not vegan but I absolutely support ending factory farming, cutting down on meat in general (even free range), and having a veg-first diet. I think we can be better, even if we don’t go vegan. For me personally, the environmental impact (methane) is more significant than any moral directive.
OP, the cognitive dissonance you point out is totally valid. I honestly think it almost entirely boils down to how far removed we (the general population) are from the process that ends with ingredients in the fridge.
If you took me to a chicken coop, gave me a butcher knife, and told me I had to prepare dinner with one of the little fellas I’d probably make a run for it. Which is quite hypocritical of me as a chicken enjoyer.
Perhaps another small part of it is the boundary of what people can/cannot empathise with. To be completely honest I feel far less for things like shrimp and oysters than I do about cows and chickens. I don’t know if that’s backed by the science (they don’t “feel”/comprehend as much) or just my narrow mindedness about how other life forms work.
But think of the kids!