#eating meat

[alpaca-clouds]

The Moral Complexity of a Meat Consumption

I said it before and I will say it again: There definitely is a subsection of the Solarpunk movement, who keeps going on about the future having to be "all vegan". In any Solarpunk space you will find some of this sort. Heck. You will also find folks in anarchist spaces, who will go: "Oh, you are an anarchist and still eat meat? So you do believe in hierarchies! Because you see yourself as higher as an animal!"

These days I am mostly ignoring those people, because I know that you really just cannot win those arguments with them.

Outside of chicken I do not really like meat. I do not like the taste or texture. But if I completely cut it out of my diet, I will get sick. Tried it several times. It did not work out. So, I cut it down to two days a week, which keeps my body in a somewhat sustainable equilibrium.

For me the issue is in how my body metabolizes certain aspects of food. But a lot of chronically ill and disabled people will have to eat meat and cannot cut it out of their diet. Maybe they cannot eat a lot of other proteins due to their allergies. Maybe there is stuff in plants that they cannot metabolize. And maybe they are autistic and literally can only eat like five different things. There are plenty of reasons people might just not get around it.

However... I also look at a lot of folks in the modern world eating cheap meat every single day, and I am shaking my head. Sure, some of them might need to eat meat daily, but let's be honest: Most people actually do not. Most people would be perfectly fine to cut down on the meat and only eat meat once or twice a week.

I personally absolutely do not see anything wrong with killing and eating animals per se. Because that is just how the world works. Some animals kill, other animals are eaten. Humans are just another animal.

What I do find issue with, however, is the industrial meat industry. The thing that makes it possible in the first place for folks to eat meat every day. Big plants where hundreds, if not thousands of animals are being kept, with only ridiculous amounts of antibiotics keeping the animals from getting too sick. With slaughtering plants that process hundreds or thousands of animals each day. That is just... Not how it should go.

I personally... since I cut down the meat in my diet, I can afford to actually just eat the free range animals that got to frolick out on the pasture for their entire life. Because frankly, yeah, it is double the price of the alternative, but... So what? For two times a week it works fine. (Also, frankly, there is less water in the meat and the meat actually has better taste and texture.)

So, you know, for me it would be totally fine if there just was no cheap meat at all and all meat was pasture frolicking animals. But even here it gets complicated of course.

Because... Well, there are poor people, who also need to eat meat for health reasons. And what are they gonna do? After all being poor makes you more likely to be disabled - and hence require stuff like that.

And it is exactly the big issue. And frankly... I honestly do not think there is any proper solution to this under capitalism. Because more than anything... capitalism sucks.

#meat consumption #eating meat #animal farming #animal husbandry #vegetarianism #veganism #solarpunk #lunarpunk #anti capitalism

[vegandude72]

#eating meat #eating animals #veganism #go vegan #vegan

[firewolf-pyro]

I hate guesstimation recipes. But the marinade for this skirt steak was just a whole bunch of guessing. It was delicious and I’m angry because I’ll never be able to replicate it again.

#skirt steak #steak #meat #eating meat #food #cooking #furry #anthro

[queen-shiba]

Shiba has words for you

Vegans.

The food you eat does feel pain.

Scientists did a study on a tobacco plant and learned that plants do, in fact, get stressed. They make a noise at frequencies so high that humans can not hear it, so the Scientists used a device to hear said sounds. When plants are bitten into or harmed in general, they even release chemicals to ease pain. When plants lack in nutrients, they'll make higher pitched sounds. Some of em do knocking shit. In conclusion

Plants are fucking needy

So yeah.

Plants feel shit, too. That will not stop me from biting the shit outta that lettuce, tho. That shit slaps harder than my mom.

Also, another reason for me not to give a damn about whether or not I eat meat and a reason for the vegans who force their ideals on people to leave people alone:

Homosapiens used to be nomadic carnivors who followed their food to hunt it. This went on during the Paleolithic era. As we entered the Neolithic era, we discovered that we could selectively breed the plants that were too unsafe to eat so that they'd be edible for us. This began the agricultural revolution, in which homosapiens began to farm and settle in one place because we discovered that we didn't have to follow our food anymore. You're welcome.

And our way of hunting back then wasn't really much better than how we do now.

We, as humans, are supposed to have a LOT of stamina. We could run up to 50 miles a day, and the added factor of quick cool downs thanks to sweat glands damn near everywhere. plus, lack of extra fur made moving that often much easier. We are very intelligent and recourseful, unlike most other species that have more natural weapons on their bodies than we do.

We lack in fangs and claws. Yes, our teeth can tear into human skin, but you're not gonna look at me and tell me you're gonna fight a lion with those pathetic ass teeth.

SO! In order to make up for that, we made weapons like spears and bows and arrows. These are our fangs and claws.

Now, how do these play into the human way of hunting?

We would run our prey down until we caught it or until it suffered a heat stroke. As we got more advanced and realized we really didn't have to do all that, nor did we need to follow the food, we started to selectively breed the plants in order for them to he safe to put in our mouths.

This was the start of the agricultural revolution.

This is when villages were settled down, and everyone started storing food for winter instead of being nomadic.

We also started to selectively breed animals and keep them for food. They probably had more purposes than this, but you get the idea.

Humans opened their eyes and said, "Yo, y'all realize we ain't gotta do this shit, right?"

"Oh shit. You right. Let's try those plants instead. We'll breed em to be safe to eat! And we'll settle here and set up a village!"

So, with all this knowledge, I can say that whatever I choose to put in my mouth, I don't have to feel bad for it.

I just need to respect what I eat. I'll get my food from farms that don't mistreat the animals before killing them.

Mom already told me how to tell if an animal was harmed beforehand. We don't eat harmed food.

#vegans #veganism #vegan #vegan tumblr #Youtube #eating meat #eating meat is perfectly fine #you just gotta do it right #be nice to your food

[ungojirasapiente]

AND ANOTHER ROCMA DRAWING, this time of our favourite polar bear eating a piece of meat. ------ Y OTRO DIBUJO DE ROCMA, esta vez de nuestra osa polar favorita comiendo un trozo de carne. ---  Ice Scream (and Rocma) by Funamusea

#funamusea #okegom #deep sea prisoner #my art #funamuseart #ice scream #rocma okegom #rocma #rocma funamusea #rocma ice scream #eating meat #eating #meat on bone

[adhd-hippie]

Intersectional Veganism

There are vegans out there who say veganism has to be tackled as a purely animal rights issue but I have to disagree. I got into veganism for my health and then for the environment and finally when my mind had been opened to the atrocities of animal agriculture I realized I wanted NOTHING to do with it ever again as far as I could manage.

I had a blood draw a few weeks back and found that my cholesterol was a little high so I decided to scrap vegan convenience foods and focus on eating more plants. As I've been re-focusing on my health I re-watched a bunch of my favorite plant based inspiration movies in particular "Plant Pure Nation" and "What The Health".

Something that both these movies do a good job of showcasing is the economic and health impacts that the modern American Diet has had on black people and communities in particular.

From exposing poor black people in rural communities to unhealthy water and toxins to removing access to fresh food from urban communities to being employed by slaughterhouses in far greater numbers than white people, people of color bear the brunt of the cost when it comes to America's dependence on meat. And that's not even starting to talk about how large scale Animal Agriculture impacts indigenous communities world wide.

When it comes to veganism there's really no good faith argument against it on behalf of people of color because people of color are the people most impacted by animal agriculture.

#Vegan #Veganism #Eating meat #Human rights

[barefootbaltimore]

Hmm yeah that meat you bought wrapped in plastic from the supermarket so like what ancestors did, so primal to buy from Walmart

Listen just because you lack the ability to revel in the small joys of existence doesn't mean that you get to suck it away from me.

If my ancestors could go to the grocery store to get a couple pounds of cow they absolutely would because at some point they invented grocery stores.

Humans are fucking amazing. Even with all my modern conveniences I can see glimpse connections with humans who lived and died in places I will never know. Isn't that beautiful?

#eating meat #imagine getting on Tumblr and being so upset by a stranger you send them a message about it. couldnt be me #anon ask #very not vegan friendly

[what-marsha-eats]

#gordon ramsay #celebrity chef gossip #eating meat

[arpitverma]

परमात्मा के विधानुसार जो किसी जीव का गला काटते है ! अगर ala

उन्हें अगले जन्म में अपना गला कटवाना पड़ता है।

- जगतगुरु तत्वदर्शी संत रामपाल जी महाराज

#meat #sotp #eating meat #stopeatingmeat #santrampaljiquotes #santrampalji is trueguru #santrampaljimaharaj #kabirprakatdiwas #kabir is supremegod

[teaboot]

I'm aware that this is a pretty big blog, so I try to avoid putting people on blast- mostly cause I don't want anyone tracking folks down and dogpiling on them for the unforgivable sin of "being wrong about a thing",

Because we are all hilariously, ridiculously and unabashedly incorrect about things at times, and that doesn't deserve the embarrassment of a thousand jeering, judging strangers with their careless mockery and casual insults,

That being said

BITCH THAT SHIT DO KILLS PEOPLE

#Witness protection post #PSA #DO NOT EAT ROTTEN MEAT

[tenth-sentence]

I'm not saying you have to eat meat; I covered the ethics of that in my book On Eating Meat, and you can make your own mind up about how to best frame your diet.

"Soil: The incredible story of what keeps the earth, and us, healthy" - Matthew Evans

#book quote #soil #matthew evans #nonfiction #on eating meat #eating meat #ethics #make up your mind #dietary choices

[vegandude72]

#bacon #animal cruelty #veganism #go vegan #eating animals #animal suffering #animal slaughter #animal rights #meat is murder #vegan #eating meat

[rebuildingrob]

Feeling Denis Leary

What are your feelings about eating meat? Eating meat is a complicated issue for me. Yes, raising animals solely for human consumption is wrong. It is true that studies of human teeth and the human digestive track indicate that humans were never intended to eat animal flesh. Eating animal flesh is immoral and unethical…but it’s really, really good! My favorite foods are meats: steak, chicken,…

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#dailyprompt #dailyprompt-2139 #Denis Leary #eating meat #masculine #masculinity #meat #vegan #vegetarian

[firewolf-pyro]

Sirloin steak, it was well marbled and even still it was tough. I like my meat’s bloody and for a first time cook it turned out decent. I only wish I had seared it properly.

#steak #sirloin steak #meat #eating meat #cooking #furry #anthro #sticker #food sticker

[troythecatfish]

Here’s my personal recommendation of a YouTube video to check out:

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[nerdpoe]

Danny needs a few...odd things. A few dietary and emotional requirements unique to his physiology. Meat is one of them.

But like, raw meat. He doesn't have to eat it often, maybe twice a month, but it does need to be completely raw.

He also needs to eat non-sentient blob ghosts, which are very different from sentient ones. Same amount, maybe twice a month.

He's weak to hot temperatures, where most humans require some sort of positive contact he needs to fight, if he gets too much sunlight his dopamine levels drop, and oddly enough as he got older milk or products with a lot of milk started to affect him like alcohol affects humans.

Now that he's made it to college, hiding most of these things is easy enough.

He chose Gotham, because of minimal sunny days and naturally cold weather. He regularly goes for walks at night, to fill his need for fighting. He says he has a milk allergy, and avoids milk products.

The blobs and the raw meat are a little uh. Those are a little hard.

He's taken to ducking into a bathroom stall to just swallow the blobs whole. But the meat...

He decides to sear the outside and leave the inside entirely raw. Does this detract from the nutrients by cooking them off? Yes. Does it mean he needs to eat raw meat four times a month instead of twice? Yes. Does it mostly hide that he's doing this in front of humans? Kind of.

Until he got a vegan roommate.

Said roommate is far too sharp-eyed for his own good, and now the guy is being weird.

Or: Damian's roommate is a meta who clearly has dietary restrictions outside the norm. It's fine; Damian understands that like animals in the wild, people have different diets. But the cuts of meat Fenton is eating are...subpar. Damian isn't sure how to be...civil, or appear polite, or not be a "snob" if he suggests Fenton allow him to procure farm fresh cuts of steak from cows raised in an open pasture and were well taken care of.

#dpxdc #dcxdp #dp x dc #dc x dp #phanfic #story prompt #affect vs effect #i still have problems telling the difference #damians breaking point is when danny uses a toaster to lightly toast the outside of the meat and can't understand what's wrong #goes and calls jon and just #“have your parents recently hosted a slaughter? have any of their neighbors? jon please” #cuz the meat is like offbrand gotham walmart meat #kinda grayish and def not healthy for fenton #he has taken care of many animals and he can force fenton to eat healthy #in the realms frostbite feels a surge of satisfaction #he has no idea where it came from