• raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    I can’t make much sense of your statement. I am flexitarian with a strong leaning towards vegetarian (meat is a rare exception) and a convenient leaning towards veganism (I love cheese, sowwy). But the reason I avoid animal products is because if I can enjoy good food without animals being hurt, then I will prefer that to eating animal products, for which animals get hurt. That’s a very easy decision and doesn’t involve nor require consent of any kind.

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      15 hours ago

      It’s fine if you don’t make much sense of it. It surely wasn’t easy to put in words, so maybe I screwed it up. I’m a person who happens to eat a similar diet than yours. And yeah, I’d prefer food with minimal suffering of animals, if I get to choose. I frequently don’t get to choose, reality does that to many of us.

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        13 hours ago

        fair enough. Eating animals is definitely “natural”, but humans have evolved to a point where we can live vegetarian / vegan without suffering malnutrition, and since we have both the least empathetic as well as the most empathetic living beings among our species, there’s a good argument to be made for eating vegetarian / vegan when given the option.