• Norgur@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    So… if you’re not acknowledging where the meat comes from, that’s bad
    But if you are acknowledging it, it’s bad as well?

    Many people who eat meat do that not while lying to themselves about where it comes from as many vegetarians/vegans assume. They just legitimately do not feel bad for the animals they eat. Just as so many of us don’t feel bad about the clothes they wear or the smartphone batteries they use.

    The world is full of abuse, suffering and other such bullshit. You can’t feel bad about all of it, or you’d go insane because you can’t escape it. Besides, the brain just numbs itself at a certain pöint. So you need to allocate your compassion to a few of the sufferings you know of. Many go with animals for that. Many don’t.

    So the question isn’t why the person eating meat is heartless, the question is what kind of pity the person not eating meat left out for it.

    That’s how my mind processes the whole thing.

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      1 year ago

      See this is one of the reasons I started hunting. I figured if I couldn’t morally deal with personally killing and preparing the creature, no more meat. It’s easy to eat meat when it’s a lump in plastic wrap on a store shelf versus when it’s like standing in front of you. (I leave the actual butchering to professionals though). Wasting food hits different when you saw it alive and you’re the one who unalived it.