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I’m amazed how in fantasy settings with houndreds of humanized species, all being like horse, oxes, cows, pigs, parrots and what not… but acts like humans and have similar social status as humans… still, meat is being pushed as the core diet in these worlds. It’s so importantt to push this narrative that not even fantasy worlds are safe, even though it just gets weird (and prob really dark) with how that world otherwise works.

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ysjet@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
… Buddy, you do realize that meat-eating is sort of a core concept for most things on earth, right?

About 63% are carnivores, only 32% of species are herbivores. It’s literally just a small subsect of humans that think eating meat is weird or some kind of ‘narrative.’

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- godrik@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  It’s not so much that, but the presence of fables of species that humans usually exploit for their bodies. If these fables walk around and have citizenship etc, in many settings you can start wonder who are people of the show eating.
  
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UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

still, meat is being pushed as the core diet in these worlds

The natural tension between herbavoires and carnavoires is a major plot point of Beastars. It’s primarily used as a metaphor for the tension between age cohorts and genders, but vegans and anprims ahem eat it up, regardless.

Similarly, Attack On Titan is all about humans turning into giant cannibal monsters, then justifying it to themselves.

Also, a very popular trope in Vampire / Werewolf / Zombie settings. “How does cannibalism become socially appropriate?” has become a popular subject of modern fiction, particularly in the horror genre.

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- godrik@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Yea there’s are a few shows playing on the subject, but I promise you this is the case in the wast majority of fable indulgent isekais.
  
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driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Just like Capitalism Realism, authors can’t even imagine societies with other economic system than capitalism.

I know they are exceptions of that. If you like to mention your favorite one please do it.

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- godrik@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Yea, so much for fantasy and imagionation hehe. I think another reason why some ideas or concept are transferred as is, is even considering alternative methods means acknowledging their are alternatives, which can be a reminder about the negative and injust properties of the current implementation. Something like that.
  
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