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The problem with pushing veganism... |
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I was thinking about this the other day, but when it comes to the discussion between veganism and the average diet, I don't think its understood why there is no such thing as a closer common ground than what we have today. While I don't believe it is bad to take on a vegan diet for yourself, I do believe its bad to push on other people and animals as if to vilify them. Vegan and vegetarianism is a preference, while carnivore/omnivore diets are nature built instinct and life cycle design.
It is admirable to see a person actively change their lifestyle for things they believe is right, and I think its good on the vegans and vegetarians to do so for that reason. They are taking themselves out of the equation when it comes to food supply. However, its when they take it to a much larger extreme that it becomes concerning, because there is no such world as a total meatless one, nature simply can't work this way and it would actually be more harmful to the environment if we all shifted to a meatless diet. I don't think the two sides can find a common ground any closer than what we have currently.
When it comes to farming, farmers cannot use the same plots of land intensely because it will eventually wear down the soil to the point that its unusable. If we were to transition most of our population onto a plant-only based diet, this would cause large amounts of damage to the plant and cause a lot of farming land to quietly become unusable because of the constant demand for food. Meat is a secondary options that counterbalances with agriculture, it takes off the demand stress.
And while it can be argued that meat is useless or unhealthy, that's not the case. A lot of vegan activist studies are basis in this way and push this idea, when really is a matter of the amount and frequency of meat consumed. Because, its obviously bad to have far too much too often. Veganism can be just as hazardous to health because of its nature, most people who do take it on end up giving it up, or claim that the long term effects weren't healthy. Its a person to person situation on finding what diet works for them, because we're not all built to handle the same diets.
I think the only common ground we can achieve is pushing for more good care animal handling. There are plenty who do genuinely care for their livestock and give them good access to food, water and open shelter. And those are the ones who we need to focus on as where to get meat products from, because in a free market system such as the USA, when a business drops too much in their sales, they are then forced to either change practices to regain sales or close business due to inability to do so. This is why I think the best approach is researching where the product comes from and how well cared for are the livestock, and promoting them over other competitors. Even if you don't eat meat yourself.
I think if this was better understood, that no person can force another out of their diet requirements, that things in this subject's discussion can actually lift a lot of bad rep off of vegans and make it easier to co-exist. A lot of the time, I see vegans fave the animal over other humans, and I think that's strange since its disregarding both nature's food chain and the population's need for food supply. Any time I eat meat, I feel shameful if I can't finish it all because I know it was living, and I quietly thank them when I do eat meat. I think we can appreciate both animal, human and nature at once, instead of believing a false ideology of a possible Utopian world where the concept of consuming meat doesn't exist, because there is no such thing as a perfect solution to any large conflict of ideas.
 Roswald · Fri Mar 06, 2020 @ 04:27pm · 0 Comments |
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