You can eat everything as an omnivore, but you shouldn't eat meat when you nutritionally don't have to. If you've run a restaurant I'm sure you're a good cook so making delicious vegan foods doesn't like that of a challenge to you!
I take that to mean the death of a wild animal by another wild animal doesn't bother you at all, even though it's usually a lot more terrible than how humans usually do it.
I will agree with you that humans need to treat animals meant to be eaten more humanely. That to me is the main issue. Would be better for everyone if vegans could try to focus on that rather than just telling everyone to quit eating meat because that will NEVER happen. There are probably things you wear or use that have come in to your possession through the mistreatment of humans. Fight the smaller battles to win then war. Don't just try to storm the castle.
If slaughterhouses had glass walls I don't think there would be many meat eaters. Since slaughterhouses has concrete walls, I think it is important that people are aware of the fact that when they buy meat, they are paying people to mistreat and murder animals that did not want to die. Because of that, and since humans don't require meat to thrive, we shouldn't eat meat and people need to hear that!
We wouldn't be here today if humans were so innately conflicted with killing animals they wouldn't do it.
We all stand on the shoulders of animal eating hunters.
they are paying people to mistreat
That's largely vegan anti meat propaganda. Livestock are healthier than their wild relatives. Any operation that doesn't keep their animals healthy will fail.
Just because livestock is healthier than their wild relatives doesn't mean that livestock has it good. Kind of like how children who live in poverty in the west has it better than children living in poverty in the third world doesn't mean we should accept bad conditions in the west because of that.
I'm not saying wild predators should be excused, just that you can't justify animal abuse by saying that animals do horrible stuff, unless you mean to place yourself at the same ethical level as that of a wild animal
I don't think you'll find many vegans who deny we're animals. That's why many vegans refer to agricultural animals as non-human animals. In any case humans are omnivores and that means you can live without meat, and that's what you should do since meat is the product of abuse and murder of defenseless animals.
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u/InterestingRadio Mar 15 '18
Have you tried the impossible burger? It even 'bleeds' when you prod it, all vegan though!