what a great post man. thanks for sharing that.
I plan to check out some of those docs. Earthlings sounds pretty intense, but I imagine it should be. "We" are shielded from the truths of it, which so easily allows us to simply skate through without thinking about what's going on behind the scenes. I often think about what's going on behind the scenes before I order at some random restaurant, which makes me want to order something with less or no animal products. Just always pops in my head. It's at least helped me reduce my intake considerably.
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Exactly man! That's why Veganism is growing so fast. All it takes is for people to see and acknowledge the truth and the conditioning/programming slowly starts eroding. A big obstacle is that most people simply do not want to even acknowledge it, due to a variety of reasons such as social pressures/fitting in with others. Others simply react negatively due to 'cognitive dissonance' where new evidence and rational/logical reasonings completely go against everything we have always believed and this creates a 'defense mechanism' in the mind. Everyone's been there, all vegans have at one point, but this just goes to show, truth is more powerful than anything, as it always eventually wins out.
No amount of cultural programming can prevent us from knowing that when we see a peaceful sentient being suffer for unnecessary reasons, it is wrong. No amount of conditioning can completely dissolve our inner empathy towards the suffering of all beings.
this was a good quick read, talks about some of the stuff you mentioned: https://veganbiologist.com/2016/01/04/humans-are-not-herbivores/
Interesting read. There is a lot of conflicting information, regarding the exact science I agree. That source makes some good points, and as you look in the comment section, there are many who disagree, just as there are also many other credible sources with intelligent claims/evidence to support the herbivore argument. I am obviously biased, but I do think we are herbivores from what I see, but sure, I may be wrong. I never claim to be a scientific expert, but one thing everyone at least agrees with is we can be just as fine as vegans (including athletically).
This is why vegans who quit are the ones who did it for dietary reasons. They were not vegans, they were just "plant based dieters". When looked at as a diet, it is difficult as diet implies restriction. When looked at as an ethical situation, it is not restriction, but the thing we WANT to do. No one wants to give up tasty things, but no one wants to conflict harm on others neither, so it's about perspective, and that's why vast majority of vegans are doing it for ethical reasons and do so easily.
As you mentioned earlier about humans being a wreck. A lot of anti-vegans want to claim that we have superior intelligence so we have the right to do whatever to them. Humans are only a wreck in this planet cause a substantial increase in intelligence without an equal increase in empathy/morality/ethics is dangerous. The Earth is an organism with all the different ecosystems and species doing their parts to keep the whole functioning optimally (just like the organs and cells of a human body), while humans are literally acting like cancer cells (destroying everything in sight, while killing its very host that gives it life). It is sad, but we can still fix it.
Thanks for being such an open-minded person Andrew. Trust me, I get plenty of people during activism, who walk by screaming "MMMM BACON!" lolll
