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I’m native and I’m vegetarian, but mostly cause of the horrible, disrespectful way that mass meat production treats the animal’s life and care. I have no problem with eating meat, if I hunted it myself, showed respect to the animal, and used as much of the animal as possible without wasting or returning the rest to the earth. Since I can’t do that I just don’t eat meat.

I love animals, but I know that we’re all part of an ecosystem and eating meat is part of all human culture, not just mine, from long long before any of us. I don’t think it’s wrong to eat meat, it just sucks how easy it is to buy meat and not give a thought to how you got it and what it cost, beyond money.

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cleanprairiedog@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
That’s a strange definition of love if it involves killing the individual you claim to care about. I don’t think a person can love someone and then kill them unnecessarily. I don’t think the length of time something has been happening makes it morally right or wrong. Slavery and colonization have been going on for long periods of time and most people recognize those might makes right practices as unethical. If there was another species that hunts, kills, and consumes humans, would you be OK being the victim if it was a part of their culture and in their same ecosystem?

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- Son_of_dad@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  If a lion ate me I would not be offended no. We’re animals, part of the chain. We can choose to not eat animals. If I wanted beef I’d raise beef cattle but then I’d fall in love with the babies and never eat them, so I avoid meat.
  
  To use a modern, Western, privileged, moral stance on something humans have been doing for millennia is just silly.
  
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  - cleanprairiedog@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    To use a modern, Western, privileged, moral stance on something humans have been doing for millennia is just silly.
    
    You are diseased in understanding and religion.
    
    Come to me, that you may hear something of sound truth.
    
    Do not unjustly eat fish the water has given up,
    
    And do not desire as food the flesh of slaughtered animals,
    
    Or the white milk of mothers who intended its pure draught
    
    for their young, not noble ladies.
    
    And do not grieve the unsuspecting birds by taking eggs;
    
    for injustice is the worst of crimes.
    
    And spare the honey which the bees get industriously
    
    from the flowers of fragrant plants;
    
    For they did not store it that it might belong to others,
    
    Nor did they gather it for bounty and gifts.
    
    I washed my hands of all this; and wish that I
    
    Perceived my way before my hair went gray!
    
    Al-Ma’arri: AD 973 – 1058 A vegan Arab philosopher and poet who lived in what is Syria today
    
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    Son_of_dad@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    You are a modern human. Do you understand that?
    
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