[split] "Some people eat animals, some don't."

[Monica]

So the difference is in awareness essentially?

I just question the logic of indifference making you guilty by extension.  I hit that area.  By that logic, everyone who buys GMO products, plastic based product, and doesn't take action (react/respond) are responsible and depolarizing.

Just.  Its a slippery slope.  Why is buying and eating meat depolarizing but not buying and discarding an endangered wooden desk? Or any ol' wooden desk?  Or a Seedless watermelon, or GMO lettuce?

Why are animals so special but everything else including people are exempt?

WTF? I never said people were exempt.

Yes, we have responsibility for all our choices, whether that's knowingly supporting the killing of a human or animal, knowingly supporting the poisoning of our foods with GMOs, knowingly buying endangered wood, whatever.

We can't control the consequences of all our actions. The offenses to the planet are too insidious. But we CAN at least quit knowingly supporting a HOLOCAUST that is going on right now, right under our noses, to the tune of fucking BILLIONS of sentient beings every single year!

We CAN quit supporting that, quite easily. It's such a ridiculously SIMPLE thing to do! Ridiculously EASY. and the rewards are great: to our younger other-selves, to the planet, to ourselves, and yes, even to the plants.

But nah...why bother? when bacon tastes so good...

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