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[–] [email protected] 52 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Yup. And if you tell someone you don’t eat meat online, there’s always people that will say “Just for that, I’m gonna eat DOUBLE meat tonight!”

[–] [email protected] 23 points 8 months ago

Only if their mom brings them more tendies into their basement.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Maybe if you understand why people react like that, you can be more than just frustrated about it. Most people know that it's morally questionable to eat meat, but they do it so often they'd have to consider themself evil to accept that. The alternative is to just double down on it and exclaim that the non-meat eater is the baddie for pushing their beliefs on people. You can notice it when you just subtly bring it up and the way people overreact.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I don’t know if it goes that deep. Lately in the US it seems like yet another anti-woke playbook thing for the far right.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I feel like I'm somewhere in between. I wish I could eat less meat, and I try really hard to eat more green "ruffage", but also I'm simply not bougie enough to have a fridge constantly stocked with produce, nor the time to prepare it into something fulfilling before it goes bad, and I'm already struggling with keeping weight and muscle for my height and age.

I also refuse to eat substitutes that are "It's like a thing you ate, but instead it's molded flavored soy!" Even still, industrial soy and palm oil farming have also been destroying the environment, by the way.

I'd be much more okay with respectfully eating something I hunted, that would feed my family for weeks or months, but I live in a bizarre place in the middle of the desert that by all rights shouldn't even exist.

So the cognitive dissonance is a source of stress, but I also would like to survive so......?