#only for this food yo be thrown out en masse

[drake-the-incubus]

I think this post is tone deaf on why a lot of vegans and vegetarians ended up that way.

They did, in fact, think about it hard enough, and were unable to come to terms with it because they felt so much guilt over eating the food that they turned to means which harms children and people who work in other countries with less labour protections that sometimes end up dead for their food.

Like, the way this speaks sounds thinly veiled as a talking point I heard from militant vegans/vegetarians.

And honestly by emphasizing meat rather than just like, “be aware of how your food ends up on your table” is wild to me.

Those plants have been produced through someone’s hard labour, sometimes someone died during the harvest of them.

Your meat isn’t just the animal, but efforts of the workers that either raised and killed or captured and killed the animal.

Who processes it, butchers it?

Your food comes from the labour and often times exploitation of other humans. It is a shame to divorce it from it and make it about appreciating the animal’s sacrifice.

Because it isn’t a sacrifice. We kill to eat and survive, and when we don’t, we have others do it in our stead, and sometimes ignore the suffering they go through to do it.