• BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee
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    10 days ago

    I was at my dad’s birthday last year and the meal was: sauerkraut, potatoes and an ABSURD amount of different meats. Like it was bizzare, even for someone who is used to people eat a lot of meat. It wasn’t even good (i guess) because it was all greasy and just too much. It wasn’t good looking or anything, it was just a lot and like half of it they threw away. At some point one of his alcoholic friends said loud: thank god there are no vegans here har har har. Are you so absorbed in your meat religion that… No, i still don’t know what the point was. But everyone found it very funny, so i guess it is.

    • MilitantVegan@lemmy.world
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      10 days ago

      One of the things that really changed my perception was learning that a single burger patty might contain some ground up flesh of a few, or possibly even a hundred or more animals.

      Our food system does a really good job of hiding it’s brutality behind heavy processing, and clever packaging and advertising. But once we open our eyes to what really goes on, it can’t be unlearned. We have a responsibility to at least make ourselves aware when our actions are responsible for awful things happening.