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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I also eat cake, red meat, smoked meat, vegetables high in oxalates, various fried foods, and occasionally drink alcohol. Life should not be about eliminating every risky behavior, it should be about fulfillment and weighing risk against probability and payoff. We all die eventually and I want to eat tasty food before I get there.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

I recently saw an infographic that showed the risk of death for getting out of bed at 90 years old is the same as the risk of hang gliding. To me, this means you should take up hang gliding when you're 90.

More seriously, you should take risks to have a full and rewarding life. Those risks can be mitigated. I've ridden motorcycles, but I also wear a helmet and safety gear while doing it.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

False dichotomy. I can eat all kinds of delicious foods, even having my health and eating my cake, and the best part is I don't have to perform any mental gymnastics to ignore any guilt or shame about the suffering my diet causes. There's something poetic about the best possible things for me, being the best possible things for all other beings out there. In reality, you just don't know what you're missing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

No mental gymnastics because I don't have orthorexia nervosa. There's no guilt or shame. (None that aren't universal to all consumption under capitalism, anyway)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 23 hours ago

Also, if we're going to start shifting blame to capitalism, please tell me how your ideal system of governance would manage to get the current 98-95% of individuals who are consuming harmful and unethical foods to change? Corporations have a lot of blame for the toxic food environment and food deserts to be sure. But also in the case of the food industry, their harmful practices are driven by consumer demand for the most addictive, hyperpalatable foods. Nothing can change without enough individuals choosing to do better.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 23 hours ago

Dude, orthorexia nervosa Isn't real. You just have your head in the sand.