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Thank you for your response fr. I admire your journey to self educate on the issue - somehow I avoided the PETA train as a young one (probably because I lived too deep in the South?). But I can understand how this happens as someone that also has deep love for all animals
Jun 18, 2024
LOL I can relate to this journey I was heavily PETA pilled too in middle and high school because of their insane youth propaganda campaign. I went full activist about it distributing the materials you could ask them to send to you + I did a project about Ingrid Newkirk and secured an interview with her but chickened out which was probably a good thing in the end
Jun 16, 2024
taterhole I’m thankful to see the nuances and the complicated human aspects of these issues now. I was a vegetarian and vegan for ten years but I eat meat and dairy produced with farming practices that I feel good or at least okay about
Jun 16, 2024
taterhole yes! they are so reductive and that’s exactly it, it’s better to be a mindful omnivore trying to be sustainable than a vegan who assumes all their food is automatically ethical / doesn’t make informed choices
Jun 16, 2024
marxinista ugh yeah this is such a major point of frustration for me because it really does make people feel as though they’re absolved of all responsibility of making ethical choices within the food system and it’s just not that simple :(
Jun 16, 2024
taterhole yes totally! i think it speaks to how manipulative their messaging is that they simplify the issue, and then once you question it/explore you‘re like wait there’s SO much nuance missing here lol. like they never talk about stuff like the harm in almond milk’s crazy use of water, sabra hummus giving $ to the IOF, inhumane working conditions on many fruit and vegetable farms… etc. and then also the fact that many indigenous people, certain religious groups, and small rural farmers consume meat in ways that truly do respect the environment and minimize the pain of the animal, which is also ignored by most hardcore vegans 🫠
Jun 16, 2024
marxinista YES I was thinking about the cultural component of traditional meat eaters who are so respectful and mindful of the ways they consume meat. it really bothers me that this messaging benefits evil corporations and promotes such binary all or nothing thinking selling moral purity as a simple impossible burger purchase lol. It’s easy to manipulate people’s feelings about this because Factory farming is legitimately abhorrent and harmful to the environment but if we start thinking about the ways we could change the scale and practices of our food system to align more closely with regenerative agriculture and also simply consume less it wouldn’t have to be this way 💔
Jun 16, 2024
