pining for PETA
My purpose is not exactly to vent hatred. But goddammit PETA needs to settle the fuck down. It's like a bunch of people watched Bambi and get the idea that it gives some real insight. I think it is real easy for people to forget that it was written by humans and does not actually represent forest animals' thoughts and feelings. This might be especially true for the many people disconnected to and lacking any real relationship with nature.
I do think it is a great thing that there is such a fierce group of people dedicated to ending cruelty to animals. I think standard farming practices are deplorable and should be illegal as should cruel animal testing and some baby pet-raising facilities.
However, to claim that eating no animal products is healthy in any respect is a bit much. Eating soy does not actually preserve more animal life than eating pasture-raised animals (which is how they are meant to live.) It is just a myth that is easily believed by people who rarely see an actual soybean field. There is a great cost to animal life, including humans, in the mono culture farming of soy and wheat and corn.
And, after all, it is the consumption of animal products that brought every one of us humans here today. If all of our ancestors had gone against their preference for the nutrient-dense animal products they revered, they would have weakened and died and we would have never been born.....perhaps that sounds good to some. Sometimes it sounds good to me, too. But we are not as in control as we imagine we are and we flow along with the will of this planet just like everything else does. There are no successful human vegan cultures that I know of on this planet. By successful, I mean they have abstained from any non-plant foods for generations and still produce strong offspring. It's amazing to me that our species has become so disconnected with nature that we have made up an unattainable fictitious diet completely out of touch with our needs and the needs of the rest of the living planet. WE ARE PART OF THE FOOD CHAIN. Like my friend Jaime says..."If you do not feel you deserve to take responsibility for your rightful place in the circle of life on this earth, then please die and give your carbon to something else that does."
I do think it is a great thing that there is such a fierce group of people dedicated to ending cruelty to animals. I think standard farming practices are deplorable and should be illegal as should cruel animal testing and some baby pet-raising facilities.
However, to claim that eating no animal products is healthy in any respect is a bit much. Eating soy does not actually preserve more animal life than eating pasture-raised animals (which is how they are meant to live.) It is just a myth that is easily believed by people who rarely see an actual soybean field. There is a great cost to animal life, including humans, in the mono culture farming of soy and wheat and corn.
And, after all, it is the consumption of animal products that brought every one of us humans here today. If all of our ancestors had gone against their preference for the nutrient-dense animal products they revered, they would have weakened and died and we would have never been born.....perhaps that sounds good to some. Sometimes it sounds good to me, too. But we are not as in control as we imagine we are and we flow along with the will of this planet just like everything else does. There are no successful human vegan cultures that I know of on this planet. By successful, I mean they have abstained from any non-plant foods for generations and still produce strong offspring. It's amazing to me that our species has become so disconnected with nature that we have made up an unattainable fictitious diet completely out of touch with our needs and the needs of the rest of the living planet. WE ARE PART OF THE FOOD CHAIN. Like my friend Jaime says..."If you do not feel you deserve to take responsibility for your rightful place in the circle of life on this earth, then please die and give your carbon to something else that does."
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