monkfish
what are birds? we just don't know.
The 'hot takes' thread has been sidetracked by some posts about veganism and vegetarianism, the topic is quite broad so I thought it's best discussed in its own thread (there will have been many similar threads in the past and will be more in the future).
My own position is that I ate meat for every meal of the day until January 2018, when I tried to go vegan for the whole month. I did it! And while the first three weeks were tough, by the end of the month I found that it actually wasn't... that... bad? Since then I have gone from being 'flexitarian' (trying to cut down on eating animal products) to pretty much full time vegan, or at least ovo-vegetarian.
My moral reasons for not eating meat are twofold:
My own position is that I ate meat for every meal of the day until January 2018, when I tried to go vegan for the whole month. I did it! And while the first three weeks were tough, by the end of the month I found that it actually wasn't... that... bad? Since then I have gone from being 'flexitarian' (trying to cut down on eating animal products) to pretty much full time vegan, or at least ovo-vegetarian.
My moral reasons for not eating meat are twofold:
- I believe the evidence showing that meat production is, in general, more damaging to the environment than the production of an equivalent plant-based diet. It uses more energy, more water, and produces more harmful greenhouse gases. Needless to say I also believe in climatologists' predictions that human-driven climate change is going to be a catastrophic problem in the near future.
- I believe that animals have some form of consciousness, and that the modern factory farming industry is a brutal dystopia. I believe in the theory of evolution, and see no reason to think that human beings are in some way special when it comes to consciousness, since we evolved from the same ancestors as cows and pigs. I expect that in 100 years' time (if civilisation remains intact), the way we currently treat animals will be looked back on with the same disgust as we now look back on the way white westerners treated people of colour.
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