If you’re at all aware of what goes in farming in Australia you know it’s a massive horror show. From chicken macerators to pig gas chambers animals suffer massively to end up on your plate.
Every Australian I’ve ever spoken to describes themselves as loving animals, and is horrified at things such as whaling. Most of us even find activities like puppy milling or hunting upsetting.
In light of this; and the knowledge that a few decades ago whaling was a-ok, monkeys didn’t matter, and elephants certainly didn’t feel pain; what makes you confident that what you were raised to consider beneath consideration actually is?
Eating animals is neither necessary nor nice, so why do it?
I’m eating a mostly carnivore diet which includes fruit, milk, eggs, and honey. Animal meat and organs are abundant in nutrients which are not as readily available in plant matter.
I would have to eat a large amount of vegetables to even get half the amount of nutrients I’d get from meat, and I’d also get terribly bloated as a result. Furthermore, plant seeds, leafs, roots, and basically everything else except fruit have defense chemicals in them that makes animals and insects not want to eat them, and consuming these over time these cause a low level of inflammation in the human body. So no thanks, vegan life isn’t for me.
Sucks that animals have to die for me to enjoy this diet, but even when I lived on a farm and had to sacrifice animals I liked for meals I did it anyway. I can’t compromise my nutrition and overall health because I feel bad about the animals.