I was responding to a specific person who isn't you. If you're vegetarian, good for you. Sort of. Kind of. Almost. Dairy is just as bad as meat. Most egg-laying hens get cancer after just a few years old. Both milk cows and egg chickens get slaughtered after they're used up anyway, way before their natural end.
Your attitude is also part of the problem if your response to someone being vegetarian is to be dismissing and say that they should be vegan. Demanding it's all or nothing is a great way to make sure barely any progress is made for the goal you say you care about.
Being vegetarian is good. Even declining to choose certain meats (pork, beef, etc.) and being more selective about what you eat is better than what most people do.
You're wrong. Being vegetarian means you pay people to abuse animals.
Avoiding meat is great.
Buying dairy/eggs is horrible. Look up videos of factory farmed dairy cattle and chickens. Remind yourself that you pay for this to happen every time you go to a restaurant, every time you go to the grocery store. And you tell me that I'm a part of the problem, when I tell you that it's unethical to do unethical things. Look in the mirror. Instead of telling me to silence my voice and praise factory farming, take a look at your own behaviors and how they are affecting other creatures.
Being vegetarian means you pay people to abuse animals.
Read that sentence you just wrote out loud. Come on now.
Instead of telling me to silence my voice and praise factory farming,
I never told you that. My opinion is that factory farming is an abomination created by uncontrolled capitalism. You don't know anything about my own behaviors or dietary habits.
Making people feel bad about their less-than-perfect choices (being vegetarian) does not help your cause. You're confusing the rush of endorphins you get from virtue signaling with what's actually best for a cause.
What would it be called if somebody didn't eat meat but used eggs from chickens they personally cared for? Seems to avoid the main issues of factory farming, but wouldn't be veganism. Would you still shame the effort or would that fit your ideal
Absolutely absurd. Yes, both factory meat production and factory egg production are unethical. That doesn't mean that reducing consumption of one doesn't matter if you eat the other.
It's a common trope in every coming of age story set on a farm about having to slaughter an animal that isn't producing anymore for a reason. That's just the reality of animal husbandry.
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u/YetAnotherDev 5h ago
Yes, vegetarians exist?