Leftist is when vegan
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Damn leftist, they ruined leftism!
I'm a species-specific eater. I don't eat beef or pork because I like pigs and cows they are adorable and I wish them all the best.
I do eat lamb, because sheep are idiots and I got kicked by one as a child. For similar reason, I would also eat horse if it was commercially available.
Chickens would eat me if our sizes were reversed so they are fair game too. If you didn't want to get farmed you shoulda stayed T-Rex sized.
I eat mushrooms, but I am a little apprehensive about it because I know they are smarter than humans
I was about to disagree with you, but then I realized that some humans are certainly dumber than a mushroom
Some? Around a third I would say.
I've heard goats are like mushrooms 👍
horse is good eating. good for the climate too, since horses require so much maintenance. if we eat'em, they're gone.
There's an awkward open secret in the UK.
The new forest has a significant 'wild' pony population. More than the forest can support over winter. The excess is gathered up and sold. While some are brought as riders, most are sold to france. On a completely unrelated note. France has no problem eating horse.
I tried. It's ok. I prefer pork or beef.
How about gooses or ducks? Or deer? Or rabbits? I'm strangely intrigued.
I have no quarrel with these animals
You have never been close to a goose than.
Never been close to a tiger either.
Valid comparison.
Nothing worse to people on Lemmy than another person with a SLIGHTLY different world view.
The only thing worse than a heathen is a heretic!
The People's Front Of Judea
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Not just Lemmy sadly
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To be clear, I believe vegan/vegetarian is the morally correct position even though I do eat meat. My point is that if we worked together we could cause more good in the world than we do by fighting.
The vegan communities, in my experience, are pretty spiky. Even amongst vegans there's a huge rift, like they're competing on whose version is most ethical. It's turned me off actually interacting with them as I find my own balance of reducing suffering into this world.
I think it's a general issue of any community that's organized around a belief and/or got ousted by society for too long I guess. Of course there'll always be people who are like this from the beginning, perhaps due to trauma, bad upbringing, bad education or whatever.
Gotta imagine a militant vegan bible-belt Linux FOSS-Bro… oh my god…
Getting the average omnivore down to the recommended 6-8 ounces of meat per day would make a tremendous difference on its own. I really didn’t know how much excess protein I was consuming until I made some vegan and vegetarian friends.
Woah 200g of meat a day is well sufficient... That is basically my max amount since I pretty much only have meat at dinner and that's more than a chicken breast which is the most amount of meat I'd consume at one time. I do consume quite a bit of dairy though (used to be cheese, but now for dieting reasons it's quark yogurts, milk, etc) and a few eggs, need that protein.
But the rest is all legumes, veggies, nuts, cereals, good carbs, etc. I'd struggle to eat more meat than that even when I didn't give a shit about my diet I think, but now that I do I also cut out all the non lean stuff so that does play a role.
Isn’t the recommended amount a lot lower than 6-8 ounces? It’s like 500g or 5 ounces per week.
Same. People literally can not comprehend that I accept whole heartedly that I believe many of the things that I do and continue to do to be immoral.
Yeah, maybe I love meat too much and I'm too weak. That has absolutely nothing to do with how I establish my moral compass.
I'd like to be a truely good person, but I'll be goddamned if the way I do that is lowering the bar to where I already stand.
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“Our adversaries are the people on the other side of the aisle. Our enemies are right here”
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The rich don't even have to lift a finger to divide the left.
That's called activism purism, I call it activism puritanism. It's, again, a very conservative way of being an activist but somehow appears in leftist groups. But I can't shake the fact that there's limits, anything that feels like a personal choice but impact hugely others, like vaccination.
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And then, to perfectly demonstrate your point: 90% of this comments section!
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