In regards to eating meat

[kia]

3D I resonate with most of the stuff you say in here. I eat mostly what my body/mind asks me to and what my pocket can pay for and I´m just grateful for that everyday. In my country being a complete vegetarian is very expensive. Very. In my city for example, everyone lives in flats, no way to grow veggies, and there are about 300.000 people and only 2 vegetarian shops and no restaurants. Sometimes we forget about how privileged we are that we can choose. There is so many people out there as much awake as everyone in here that don’t have a choice.

Are you saying that rice, beans, wheat, corn, lettuce, carrots, apples, bananas, etc. cost more than meat?

That is strange, being that meat production require far more space and resources than feeding the crops directly to humans.

Here in the US, we can buy a bag of pinto beans for very cheap, and it will cook lots of pots of beans.

Most people who eat animals, also eat some fruits and veggies, so the cost for the fruits and veggies is the same (unless you go raw vegan, in which case you'd be eating more fruits and veggies).

The meat is just replace by rice, beans and other grains and legumes, which are much cheaper than meat.

It costs a lot to feed those cows. I'm puzzled as to how rice, beans, etc. would be more expensive than meat.

Yes, basically I said that. The veggies and fruits that you have named are very commonly seen is supermarkets and they slighter cheaper. However, we have not as much variety of veggies, fruits... as you guys have like avocados, pumpkin, asparagus, pineapples, mangos, grapes, black and red beans, whole-grain bread, aubergines, yellow peppers, broccoli….among others like seeds (very important) are sometimes difficult and very expensive to get. In Spain we have also a very high economic crisis, which leads almost 30% unemployment. For families, living as I said in flats (anywhere) it will be very expensive to have a healthy vegetarian diet in terms of money and facilities (find the shop that has it).My point wasn´t talking about Spain really, it was only a situational/geographical example. Other time I lived in Morocco for 6 months and no way you could be just a vegetarian, they live on tuna mostly, eggs, meat, salad and the best oranges in the world But they only have oranges Seriously if you go to the supermarkets it’s really hard to find any veggie or fruit that looks healthy…still every one of them blesses their food. Or at least that was my impression. They´re very grateful people. Anyway, another example
I know is wrong killing. I try my best not to eat any meat myself. Except from when I´m sick and my mum (old school) convinced me always to have a steak. And other times in which I feel I bit down of energy and my body asks me to…but I do try not to. I do eat fish every now and then. Nowadays, I even find it hard to go to supermarkets, I never go through the meat section because sometimes that smell just puts me off and I want to get out of there ASAP. So when that happens and I think about my time in Morocco I do feel sad