Usdk wrote:
Oh please.
I'm saying veganism is not as harmless to animals as everyone likes to tout, and you're bringing in some existential bullshit?
I haven't had to compete for food with anything, ever, so yes I am at the top of the food chain. So yes, you're wrong.
Existential? Yes.
Bullshit? No.
Just because I have empathy for the animals that I now currently eat does not mean it is bullshit just because you lack empathy for the animals you choose to eat.
This does not exclude the possibility of you changing your mind at any given time in the near or far future so the door is open for you to step through when you're ready to walk through this "existential bullshit".
I could be wrong, though I am your kind of wrong. Did you watch the video I posted? Have you ever owned a pet animal? Do you care about your environment? I have a good feeling for about half if not all of the answers to these questions I ask you. I ask you, and the viewers of the board, because our society has for so long neglected the impacts we make.
Had someone been above us on the food chain and treated you in a similar fashion to the video posted above, I would be shocked if you still felt the same way. Just because a threat currently isn't there doesn't mean there won't be one down the road. It may or may not be in our lifetimes, who knows? Either way, it doesn't matter. What matters is the survival of our species, right? If that's the case, shouldn't we take any and all precautions to do that?
Existential "bullshit" in my opinion will further that cause. That's what has set many people's heads in a spinning fashion when the global weather was being accounted for along with the ozone layer and the rainforest and so many things we bring destruction to and neglect to consider until the aftermath has hit us.