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[–] LaBellaLotta@hexbear.net 23 points 1 month ago

Honestly at a certain point the apologizing for eating meat around me becomes more annoying.

Like, you know my feeling on the subject, I don’t like having to listen as people endlessly unfurl there own psychic terrain and hang ups around what they eat and why they think they can’t give up meat.

At the end of the day I tend to see it all through the lens of addiction. A holier than thou attitude is generally counter productive but it doesn’t make it any less tiresome to hear the same excuses over and over and over again.

Eventually you start to appreciate the rare unapologetic carnist who isn’t also a chauvinist making jokes about my diet. That’s a rare type of person though. Weirdly enough I’ve met more full on carnivore diet types like this than anyone else.

I think something about it being a health focused diet choice and the fact that even within carnism they’re kinda fringe and weird makes them one of the least annoying carnists in my anecdotal experience. Of course that doesn’t apply to the influencer style types who are very publiclly advocating a carnivore diet.

Obviously I think they’re completely wrong and just experiencing the transient positive effects being more mindful about what you put in your body. Hard to persuade that! I’m just gonna have to trust they learn there lesson the hard way when they’re in the early stages of kidney failure within the next decade.

[–] Ithorian@hexbear.net 21 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Meat is everywhere, you never get a chance to be sensitized to it. Even living in a completely meat free house for over a decade it's still always in your face when you go out. And it's honestly not worth your breath to argue with people. I've moved a handful of people significantly left but only ever managed to budge one on meat. And even then she went back to meat vas soon as she thought being vegetarian was effecting her health instead of putting any effort into figuring it out.

[–] Robert_Kennedy_Jr@hexbear.net 16 points 1 month ago

I lost the urge to debate it years ago because people become automatically defensive even when they're the ones who figure out what I eat and I'm then grilled on why yes, chicken and fish count because they are also animals. If I want to shut it down immediately I just start rattling off the immense suffering of whatever they're asking likely experienced and they shut up fairly quick.

[–] AdmiralDoohickey@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago

I just feel silent contempt for them. Especially when they talk about animals getting killed for their enjoyment with pure glee on their faces

[–] woodenghost@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

You just imagine them like a younger version of yourself. Like they might one day stop eating meat on their own. All the information is out there and they likely know about it already. It's not your job to educate people all the time or push them on it. But if you have the energy and time for it and feel like it, or they ask you to help them, go for it.

[–] varmint@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago

Dunno guess I'm just chill like that shrug-outta-hecks

[–] abc@hexbear.net 5 points 1 month ago