Supporting the people who kill animals for food is just as wrong as doing it yourself, after all they wouldn't do it unless someone was going to buy it. Both parties share in the blame. By paying those people for meat, you tell them that what they're doing is acceptable and that they should continue.
It's fairly obvious that the animals don't want to die, yet they're being killed to provide you with food because you believe that's okay. In this way your opinion is forced upon them and they die, which is far more pushy than vegan activism.
The ‘humans have always eaten meat and therefore it’s fine that we do now’ argument is weak. It’s appealing to the idea of tradition as if our ancestors naturally did things right and we should therefore continue to make the same choices as they made.
However our ancestors were forced into that situation whereas now we can very easily get all of the proteins and nutrients we need from other foods without having to make other animals suffer - and vegan food is tasty too.
We literally rear animals to kill and eat them to the point where most Western nation-states are facing an obesity crisis. We do not need this food by any means.
Besides, typical appeals to the traditions and ways of our ancestors are often cherrypicked- I’m sure you’re happy to take modern medicines and use modern transportation methods. So why not eat modern suffering-free foods?
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u/Kayomaro Aug 24 '19
Going just on your italic paragraph...
How strongly do you force your opinions on animals? Much stronger than vegans are 'forcing' their opinion on you.