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RE: QOTW: Why do you think there is so much hate and anger toward Vegans, and why are those who eat meat and dairy so threatened by the notion of giving it up?
My comment about fruitarians was a sarcastic response to bring told we should be breatharians or that we should not even eat vegetables! .. if u read it again in context u may get that..
I feed myself well and have grown a lot of food btw!
I am glad you are not bedeviled by the Breatharian fantasy.
Buying starts or seeds from a nursery, bags of dirt, and lumber to make beds isn't feeding yourself. It's purchasing the corpses of living creatures from men that have killed them to make those products for you. Soil is nothing more than dung and corpses.
Living in the forest in Alaska, I learned some hard truths about who and what we are, and hunters is part of the answer. The growing season is short there. Veganism in the wild is a death sentence. In cities vegans are blissfully unaware of how their food costs the ecosystems.
When I hunt, I look what I eat in the eye before I kill it. I do so because I love it, and respect it, and because it is merciful to not only that creature, but all the creatures I spare by my hunting. Creatures of every kind and stripe, not only animals.
The forest is a war. Every plant is battling constantly for space and the resources it needs. They kill and eat their competitors too, though it can take centuries. Fungi are like buzzards for plants. It's an amazing system, life, and every living thing kills to eat before dying to feed others.
Pretending to be merciful while looking the other way and hiring out your killing to the agro-industrial complex is not manly. It's not humane. It's cowardice and conceit. Acknowledging that the celery you have for lunch has displaced the vast herds of bison is rational. It's not morally superior to eat the celery than to eat the bison.
When you forage in the wild for food you join in the war of life, and do so directly rather than hiring Monsanto to do it for you. I'm not saying humanity should all become grunting savages, but we should make no pretense that when we eat we do not kill beautiful living breathing animals, because we do kill them when we eat celery grown on the prairies where bison used to roam.
We just hire thugs with hammers to whack our food for us when we buy celery, or the fixings to grow our own from industry.
Wow.’ U sound an little bit fanatical, and slightly misinformed,, but each to our own!
I live in the remote jungles of south india mountains.. my vegetables grow without any harm to the local bison whome I meet eye to eye as they migrate.
Two of my friends are bretharians.. they are doing just fine! Most of my friends are vegetarian and likewise are healthy beings!
Anyways, enjoy your world and i will mine!