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slowtrain33@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
I have a dog, and have seen him experience suffering. It breaks my heart to see it happen, and I would never do anything to intentionally cause him to suffer.
Yet by eating beef, pork, and chicken I supported an industry that causes similarly intelligent animals extreme suffering for their entire lives.
I’m a pescatarian for this very reason. And even as a pescatarian, I strive to eat only wild caught fish when I do eat them. I also only eat certified humane eggs, and only buy oat milk or almond milk.
I’m still guilty of eating cheese, but if there was a certified humane cheese option, I would absolutely pay extra for it.
We don’t have to cause all this unnecessary suffering for animals. We can get all of our food from other sources, or take it from animals in a humane way.
but if there was a certified humane cheese option
“Lab grown” dairy already exists and is commercially available for a few specific products. It uses precision fermentation (as opposed to cell cultivation). I’ve had ice cream and sour cream made via this process, though I am not aware of any cheeses produced this way nor am I sure if it is possible with this process because it only creates certain components of dairy.
altphoto@lemmy.today 3 days ago
The world certainly pulls and pushes us in different ways. I don’t eat meat for many reasons including the torture and suffering part. I’m alive and totally fine, but I think there’s definitely a learning curve about the nutrition supplements needed to stay healthy. Anyway I still have some leather belts and shoes. I like art and have unflavored gelatine used in the carbon transfer process. There are a huge number of items in our every day that used to be sentient beings.
I used to have a default Costco chicken and tortillas diet. But one day this idea clicked for me…could I go one week without meat? Nothing about the whole moral thing. Just trying. So did it and I just kept doing it. The first week is definitely the hardest. If most people stopped eating meat, things would be better for everyone… The meat industry, the planet, the animals and you.