Do you think that choosing a diet in life is relative?
As in relative to what has happened to a particular individual in life? Some people are abusive, often times they were abused.
Some people are nice and often times have nice parents.
So, if a person sees nothing wrong with taking the life of an animal for food when its unnessesary, is it probable that the same person had a life where he/ she was in some way desensatized to it??
In other words, people are quick to grab for a hamburger without questioning it. But if as a society, we only ate plant based foods, it would be very strange and probably horrifying to see somebody eating and killing animals…
Just makes you wonder where people’s arguments are coming from on this topic..
Interesting concept.
Undoubtedly environment plays a huge part…if a child were taken to a slaughterhouse, I’d say 98% of them would bawl at what they saw. As adults, we have become so desensitized that that number goes down to about 15%.
May 23rd, 2010 at 1:55 pm
if you are religious or not you will know god put animals on the earth for us to eat (to a certain extent)
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May 23rd, 2010 at 2:14 pm
i dont know what you mean but i was never hit as a child my parents didnt belive in hitting children and i grew up to be completely peaceful and non-bullying.
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May 23rd, 2010 at 2:25 pm
I was in a loving family. I was never abused. We lived in a nice neighborhood and I had a great childhood. I think you are reading into someones diet a little to much. There are billions of omnivores with all different types of backgrounds.
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May 23rd, 2010 at 2:40 pm
Interesting concept.
Undoubtedly environment plays a huge part…if a child were taken to a slaughterhouse, I’d say 98% of them would bawl at what they saw. As adults, we have become so desensitized that that number goes down to about 15%.
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May 23rd, 2010 at 3:14 pm
Sure, environment can always contribute to a diet choice but assuming we are not religious and our own autonmous moral agents, we are capable of making our own moral decisions as we become less ignorant. Omnivores choose not to look into what type of companies that they are supporting.
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May 23rd, 2010 at 3:29 pm
Maybe. I think a major part of why we eat the way we do is that we don’t actually see the process of making our food. This goes for everything from corn to meat to milk to eggs to processed fake meat products. I don’t think we’re desensitized, especially, so much as we are unaware.
Some people do know and don’t care. Others do know but like meat/cheese/whatever too much to give it up. Others might have found a way to include it that is okay for them (for example, maybe they’re icked out by factory farming, but don’t have a problem eating eggs from their backyard flock, or a deer that they killed with a clean shot).
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May 23rd, 2010 at 3:46 pm
I don’t know about that. Maybe being raised in a family that eats animals, will continue the cycle of being desensitized to the truth, but I was raised by a family who ate animals and since I was little, I always was forced to eat them and it was a big issue with us, since I refused. Then I moved out and just became a vegan. So my background was not the reason.
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May 23rd, 2010 at 4:22 pm
Yes I would say that your affinity to carrots and cucumbers is symbolic of the multiple phallic objects which were an integral part of your boyhood and you are sentimental towards cabbages because it evokes fond memories of that little boy in you that people constantly referred to as cabbage head
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Your bestial instincts extended itself beyond sexual intimacy with animals and has moved to encompass every detail of your life.. Eating an animal would be synonymous with eating a lover.and so on
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Animals, then and now, are the only friends you ever have
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Your lack of personal accomplishment has forced you to find an imaginary cause wherein you become some sort of hero of the oppressed and choosing non communicative and passive animals removes that possibility of being verbally and psychically rejected yet again
I could go on and on and on.
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