Post #1135501

2026-04-10 07:27 UTC

It fascinates me that people who very much eat meat are often various levels of uncomfortable or weirded out by animal products not made of meat, like tripe or what goes into a sausage or whatever. My friend, you already eat chunks of a carcass. You already gave up on the notion of avoiding the ickiness. How is a leg inherently less upsetting to eat than a stomach. If you eat dairy, you eat basically spoilt milk. And milk itself comes from modified sweat glands. If you want to go vegetarian or vegan, good! Eating meat is unethical and has its own health issues, and also it&#39;s bad for the environment. If you don&#39;t, fine. Get off your high horse and enjoy the horse meat. I consciously try to reduce meat in my diet and am considering going vegetarian. But because of ethical and environmental concerns, not because of arbitrary, cultural notions of what is gross.

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@oddtail@meow.social 2026-04-10 07:33

And also, as one Dan Olson video pointed out, if you already consume animal products, processing and eating as much of an animal as possible (using the whole buffalo, if you will) is the MORE ethical option. You waste less and that is good, in the context of industrial meat production. (or at least less bad)

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@Mycroft@meow.social 2026-04-10 08:23

@oddtail I've got my own weird hangups, not specifically about *what* I eat, but how. Chicken nuggets from pink slime? Fine. Sausage? Love it. Chicken leg? That's where I run into problems, gnawing meat off a bone. It makes no logical difference whether someone else pulls the meat off the bone first or if I do it myself, but it's still psychological. Gets me too close to my food, reminding me that this thing I'm holding was once alive. Another thing I've tried for recently is to reduce (as much as I passively can) my egg/milk intake. Meat is murder, it's harming/killing animals, sure. But if done right it's only killing them once, and eating meat is a natural process that went on for millions of years before humans arrived, which is how I justify it to myself. But how the vast majority of consumer milk/eggs are harvested, that's practically torture, ongoing suffering of animals for their entire lives. But that's just me, I'm definitely not going to talk anyone else into or out of what they feel comfortable with.

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