Anonymous Sep 11, 2018 at 7:52 pm

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Hey y'all, your defense mechanisms are showing. Veganism isn't about you.

When you step on a dog's paw or tail, how do you feel? Wouldn't you feel the same if you did that to a farm animal? Think about your instinct when you've been around any animals. I usually just want to pet them and make funny noises with them. I don't ever want to slit their throats and eat their insides.

Anyway, since you're concerned about slave labor, this is what paying the meat industry funds: https://www.revealnews.org/article/they-thought-they-were-going-to-rehab-they-ended-up-in-chicken-plants/

Also, side bonus: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/may/31/avoiding-meat-and-dairy-is-single-biggest-way-to-reduce-your-impact-on-earth

Thanks for giving me the chance to prosetylize about my favorite subject!

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^^ We are all a bunch a fucking losers, guys, because not only are we debating the merits of personal diets, but we are doing it anonymously. If anyone had a real complaint, they'd stop being a passive loser and deal with that shit in person. But oh no, some dipshit obnoxiously posts about veganism? No wonder you came here to complain, because this isn't even a first world issue; this is a non-issue.

I'm a fucking loser, but i admit this shit.
Settle down, cry babies.

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"I think they’ll continue to eat meat and way to deflect from the fact that YOU are an asshole hypocrite too as you used a smartphone to respond. πŸ–•πŸ»"

Hi Tilted, I'm happy to help you with whatever activism you're up to regarding people using smartphones. I assume the issue is important to you considering you're so passionate about insulting people over it.

Can you be specific on why you're hectoring people over owning technology, something you clearly participate in as well? At least vegans have chosen an issue they care about and walk the walk.

Anyway, since I have another chance to spread vegan propaganda, here you go: https://news.cornell.edu/stories/1997/08/us-could-feed-800-million-people-grain-livestock-eat

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Nah, not missing the point. I'm just pointing out that losing your shit over nothing is pretty easy when you can remain anonymous.
And yeah, you're still a cry baby.

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veganism is an artifact of extreme affluence and absurd amounts of free time. there are no vegans where famine exists. when you proclaim your veganism all you are really doing is announcing that you have the extraordinary privilege of being picky about what you eat.

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Yeah I don't police what people eat and I don't want people policing what I eat. And the only friends I have problem with this are rich white people and vegans (most of the time they are both).

I had a friend who lived in Seattle, who was wealthy because of her husband's job, and would preach all about being a vegetarian and eating organic food and how if you weren't supporting specific food systems, then you were "part of the problem."

My rebuttal was we need to first be concerned that everyone in the world has access to food, first, and then maybe we can discuss dictating terms of how that food is sourced. It's easy to sit on a high horse when your "household" brings in six figures, you live in a place in the country where there is a nothing but organic, locally sourced food, and you can pretend that you didn't come from abject poverty and your parents live on junk food, soda pop, and cigarettes. Oh and did I mention she would also eat at Arby's when she wanted to secretly eat fast food? Now I don't eat at Arby's so I can't actually verify that what they serve is meat, but I'm fairly certain whatever she was eating wasn't vegetarian.

Later, she would return to eating meat (meat she insisted was only ethically source and humanely slaughtered > what?). She insisted that anyone eating meat that wasn't sourced the way the meat she ate was, again, "part of the problem."

She then went on to go to a scam school in Italy to learn all about food and gastronomy, which she paid for with the funds from her divorce from her wealthy husband (but before she divorced him she enjoyed an extravagant vacation in Japan with him, that he paid for, of course).

The point I am trying to make is that being an insufferable asshole about anything (what you eat, how you are better than other people because you or you don't _) does nothing to convince people that they should also do what you are doing (or not doing). All it does is make people hate you.

Everyone cares about different things. Vegans want to live in a world where everyone is vegan.
I want to live in a world where people don't starve to death, people have good, nutritious food to eat, people (including children) aren't going hungry anywhere in any way, children aren't having food taken from them and thrown in a garbage can because their parents owe a school system money, and where most food made in the western world was't processed, toxic waste crap created to make people addicts and make corporations wealthy. I want to live in world where wealthy white people don't get everything at the expense of everyone else and then have the nerve to preach like self righteous assholes to the rest of the world. But that's just me (and that's just the tip of the iceberg of the kind of world I would like to live in...)

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Christina Rae, I appreciate how much you care about world hunger and access to food! I think you're overlooking the root of the problem, though.

We know 800 million people will be starving tonight, but the 70 billion land animals we kill every year for food never have trouble getting enough crops and water to fatten them up to slaughter size.

While I understand your concerns with about your fake vegan friend's tone, my concern is that you want change but aren't open to ideas that could be the solutions.


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