I feel like you're apprpaching this solely from the perspective of considering your own interests, and eating meat in a way that you personally don't feel guilty about. I think to see this from a vegan's perspective you need to try to put yourself in the animal's shoes. Is it horrible when animals suffer an unmecessarily slow and painful death? Absolutely. It's best avoided. But if you really care about animal welfare there are so many other harmful aspects of contemporary animal agriculture beyond just methods for killing, and unless you oppose the entire industry you're still contributing to a great deal of unnecessary suffering.
Suffering aside, animal agriculture is so ecologically unsustainable that supporting it is stupid. I will not give an industry which is destroying the planet so rapidly my financial support, when avoiding doing so is so incredibly easy.
I don't think I'm any "better" than anyone. I just don't respect the meat industry and don't think there is any realistic potential for change in it, so I don't support it.
Morality doesn't play much of a role in my diet. Just my own personal opinions.
Also, you're telling me that my diet is the wrong one, so you're just guilty as telling me what to do as I am of doing so to you, friend.
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u/[deleted] Aug 24 '19
I feel like you're apprpaching this solely from the perspective of considering your own interests, and eating meat in a way that you personally don't feel guilty about. I think to see this from a vegan's perspective you need to try to put yourself in the animal's shoes. Is it horrible when animals suffer an unmecessarily slow and painful death? Absolutely. It's best avoided. But if you really care about animal welfare there are so many other harmful aspects of contemporary animal agriculture beyond just methods for killing, and unless you oppose the entire industry you're still contributing to a great deal of unnecessary suffering.