This seems to be subtle jab at people who buy dead animals which led lives of misery, in order to eat them and their products.
As one of those people (occasionally), I agree with you. It’s way too easy to blame the evil companies. They only exist because we voluntarily pay them to do what they do. We are all responsible.
We don’t know if was easy for them. It takes some time to get new recipes, learn about different potential new foods and read ingredients. And maybe you get to a point where you have to buy something non-food and consider what is made from.
Nobody has the same problems in a world where animal products are so abundant but those who do face them getting more and it is now easy in most parts of the world.
I dunno, you can’t really levy the blame against everyone. More and more, people are given less choice to buy better quality food over cheap factory produced food. The supermarkets present you with a choice between cheap factory food and slightly more expensive factory food.
This is a classic question of intuition. Personally I see your argument as a cop-out. By definition the supermarkets are just selling us what we want. That’s what supermarkets do, they’re not charities. If you want (somewhat) cruelty-free meat, it’s available in the organic shop across the road and it costs four times as much. Suddenly you don’t care so much about the chickens, right? Not blaming you or anyone in particular. This is who we are as humans. We want it tasty, we want it cheap, and the rest is something of an abstraction.
This seems to be subtle jab at people who buy dead animals which led lives of misery, in order to eat them and their products.
As one of those people (occasionally), I agree with you. It’s way too easy to blame the evil companies. They only exist because we voluntarily pay them to do what they do. We are all responsible.
I mean, I am not. I just… stopped doing that. Pretty fucking easy solution.
For a lot of people it’s not that easy, apparently. But well done.
We don’t know if was easy for them. It takes some time to get new recipes, learn about different potential new foods and read ingredients. And maybe you get to a point where you have to buy something non-food and consider what is made from.
Nobody has the same problems in a world where animal products are so abundant but those who do face them getting more and it is now easy in most parts of the world.
I dunno, you can’t really levy the blame against everyone. More and more, people are given less choice to buy better quality food over cheap factory produced food. The supermarkets present you with a choice between cheap factory food and slightly more expensive factory food.
The poorest eat the least meat, lentils, chickpeas, beans and rice are cheaper everywhere. Ask me how I know.
This is a classic question of intuition. Personally I see your argument as a cop-out. By definition the supermarkets are just selling us what we want. That’s what supermarkets do, they’re not charities. If you want (somewhat) cruelty-free meat, it’s available in the organic shop across the road and it costs four times as much. Suddenly you don’t care so much about the chickens, right? Not blaming you or anyone in particular. This is who we are as humans. We want it tasty, we want it cheap, and the rest is something of an abstraction.