It’s always so depressingly funny to me that the default response by meat eaters to being presented with the unfathomable cruelty of factory farming is some combination of denouncing it while still:
saying they don’t participate in it but failing to explain how – despite how incredibly difficult and meticulous that would be (arguably somehow moreso than a plant-based diet)
saying they try not to participate but never explaining what “trying” means or making any indication of concrete goals
or elaborating only to show through regurgitating industry buzzwords that they live in a fantasy land born from a cocktail of wishful thinking and corporate astroturfing.
… And then, as you point out, after all that, the amount of meat in the US not produced via factory farming is functionally a rounding error. Someone’s lying to someone here, and my hot take (as someone who used to say these same things) is that it’s carnists to themselves.
Your first point is literally why I went vegetarian.
I tried getting meat out of sources that I could ethically comply with but gave up after a while.
If you live in a city it is practically impossible.
I say vegetarian, because I eat the occasional egg if I personally know the chickens and their living conditions.
I think most of them know on some level that their arguments don’t make sense, but sometimes their cognitive dissonance requires them to type out some self platitude.
I personally think this is part of a growth process. I certainly remember writing things I thought that maybe I was wrong about, but leaving it to someone else to tell me exactly why.
It’s always so depressingly funny to me that the default response by meat eaters to being presented with the unfathomable cruelty of factory farming is some combination of denouncing it while still:
… And then, as you point out, after all that, the amount of meat in the US not produced via factory farming is functionally a rounding error. Someone’s lying to someone here, and my hot take (as someone who used to say these same things) is that it’s carnists to themselves.
Your first point is literally why I went vegetarian. I tried getting meat out of sources that I could ethically comply with but gave up after a while. If you live in a city it is practically impossible.
I say vegetarian, because I eat the occasional egg if I personally know the chickens and their living conditions.
I think most of them know on some level that their arguments don’t make sense, but sometimes their cognitive dissonance requires them to type out some self platitude.
I personally think this is part of a growth process. I certainly remember writing things I thought that maybe I was wrong about, but leaving it to someone else to tell me exactly why.