Indeed, Abrahamic characters need a #metoo

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At the same time, however, I very much agree with vegans that the average person consumes more meat than what is necessary for them (in some cases even more than is healthy for them) and this demand results in just really disgusting practices in the industry – brutal treatment of animals, feeding chickens growth hormones and then oftentimes filling the dead meat with water so that it looks bigger, keeping the animals in small cages/pens where they barely have enough space to breathe... All that, or at least most of it, I think could be solved if the demand was lower, if people realized that eating meat once or twice a week is not only enough, it is also healthier than having meat every day.
But again I'm being an idealist, as long as the demand exists, capitalism will match it with supply because some people would rather please the consumer and fill their pockets than treat others (by that I mean the animals as well as their employees) with some decency. (2/2)

@porch_light Thank you for the words of encouragement ^^ basically the reason why I'm not a vegan and why I don't like it when vegans preach to other people and try to guilt trip other people is because I don't think that it would be sustainable for everyone. Meat is, even from an evolutionary standpoint, a more efficient source of nutrients, because it packs more in a smaller volume, and most animals used for meat mostly eat grass. I think that for vegans to be able to enjoy their lifestyle, they must be in a minority because all the stuff they eat to substitute the nutrients in meat is quite difficult to grow and requires very specific conditions – y'know like all those superfoods that you can only find on like one patch of dirt somewhere in South America. And even regular vegetables need lots of land. Or they take supplements which, again, need a lot of energy in the process. (1/2)

@guest I googled it and you're right, it's almost the other way around, wow. I thought the meat consumption was a lot higher. I have to re-evaluate my view. I guess I was projecting my own lifestyle on my worldview – I try not to buy stuff in plastic packaging, most of my clothes are second-hand, I eat meat about once a week and I own a few leather items that I've had for a long time, and I'm very much against fast fashion because I find it incredibly wasteful. I guess I foolishly assumed that people who buy leather stuff actually own it for a long time and don't just discard it when it becomes unfashionable.
I guess if everyone bought leather stuff to last instead of throwing it away a year after buying it, the industry would look a lot different and be a lot more sustainable. But that's just me being idealistic I guess. I'd love if you shared what you know ^^

Yeah I know Im just trying to respond to guest and all the people who keep saying that "gender equals chromosomes and you can't refute me because something something science" and then proceed to get the science wrong.

I get your point however what I meant was that imposing totally arbitrary gender categories on a kid sucks, and the fact that everybody else does it too doesn't make it right. I completely agree that sometimes parents pushing "progressive" stuff on their kids might make the kids feel ostracized from the group. But it isn't really the parent who doesn't burden their kid with gender roles who's in the wrong, it's all the other parents who do. It's like, when everybody else is in the wrong, should I be in the wrong as well just to belong?

And then also, even the fact that intersex people exist and they're still usually referred to as he/she kind of proves that most people will refer to you by what you look like, not rush you to a lab and look at your chromosomes upon meeting you or something.

There are many more chromosomal combinations than XY and XX and they're not THAT rare (about 1 in 100 are something else than XY or XX which, considering the number of living people in the world, is a pretty high number) and in most cases you can't tell because they don't look that different from what society considers male and female. Case in point, Superman syndrome (XYY) men just look like tall men and have learning problems, but tall men with learning problems aren't always XYY, they can have ADHD and tall parents or something, so how do you tell? Or women with Swyer's syndrome who technically have XY chromosomes but grew female external sexual organs because the SRY gene didn't activate when they were in the womb. That's the thing, trying to determine "gender" from chromosomes has such a shaky foundation that it's not a reliable method and people who claim it's correct because "something something science" are... just factually wrong.

Not to mention gender is a pretty arbitrary category. Even now in my adulthood, I recognize that I am a woman but I genuinely don't see how this should change anything about who I am or what I do. I realize that it does change things because people are biased in certain things towards me, and in others against me, but I just don't see how this arbitrary characteristic should impact my life.
And no I don't want to put any extra labels on myself like"graygender" or "neutrois" or something like that because I just think these labels are pointless.
Imagine how confused kids must feel when we tell them "you must wear pink and play with dolls" and so on. Like, just let them be kids, let them wear and play with whatever they want, I'd say it's more confusing for them to push them into these gender roles than not, the only confusion might stem from the fact that most people do push their kids into gender roles and the kid might feel like an outcast. But that's an issue of society as a whole.

He wears a ski jacket with like 8 million pockets but they're all too small to fit what my purse can fit :/

I understood that reference.
And I love you for making it.

The question is do they name all their pets after things they grow? Because that sounds like a beautiful place.
I'd like a pig called Sweet Pea.