I respect your opinion and admire your passion. But when you say eating meat is no longer relevant and a thing of the past I hope you are presenting your view of the way things could/should be, your goal, your utopia. Because the reality is that meat is still the norm, the standard, the convention. It is still quite relevant and perceived to be necessary.
I am personally conflicted because I am an animal lover. The videos of slaughter houses break my heart. But I eat meat and I don't plan on stopping anytime soon. I believe that it is a natural thing to eat meat. For as long as humans have existed they have eaten meat. Let's not forget- we are animals (albeit evolved ones).
I think we could all make a difference if we spent our resources promoting the humane treatment and killing (yes- I see the irony/oxymoron here) of cows, pigs, chickens, etc. because the practice of eating meat isn't going anywhere anytime soon. I'd imagine it'll take another century, if not more.
Two cents, G
Thanks for replying on that thread. you gave me some interesting things to contemplate!
When I say that eating meat is no longer relevant and a thing of the past i mean that the majority of us do not need meat as life sustaining food, unless you may have some medical reasons. I understand what your saying about humans eating meat as long as there has been civilization but now it is much easier for us to acquire food, we go down to the grocery store and we have many choices. It is the norm for us to eat meat, this is how we are raised, most of us. We are human animals, but there are other animals who live on vegetation alone. You are so right about putting our time and energy into reducing the cruelty in these factories, this is very important. And also to look into where you are purchasing your meat from so that possibly we have more humaine choices. I have found even at Publix that if we ask for a particular product sometimes they can get it, but we still have to be aware that sometime organic does not mean cruelty free.
There are a lot of things throughout are lifetime as human beings that have fallen away due to awareness of our ignorance, we now know
that smoking is a health hazard, something most of us were not aware of 60 years ago. But even though so many of us know that we continue to do it. I smoked 2 packs of cigarettes a day for 20 years, i knew it was bad for me, I knew it was not setting a good example for my kids , why did I do it, because smoking even today is still socially acceptable, and also I was addicted, phisically, mentally and emotionally.
I think a lot of us are the same way with meat, and just food in general. We use it to temporarly make us feel better, and most of the time do so with the knowledge that we are only creating more addiction in ourselves and families.
You are right, in a utopia it would be completely irrelevant and probably against the law to consume other living beings, especially by the torcherous ends they meet. It may never happen.
When we are lost in the forest we use the north star to guide us out. We are not trying to get to the north star, we are only moving in that direction.
The deeper we pennitrate this topic the more awareness we bring to ourselves and our society.
I can tell that this is something you are looking into deeply, and I can tell that it has brought you a lot of awareness.
It would be wonderful if like you, like me, and many others, more people we able to open their heart to this topic.
The main word I really liked that you used in your comment was "perceived"
It is our perception as a society that eating meat is normal, and valid.
The question is where did these perceptions come from, when were these perception passed on to us,do we want to allow the perceptions of our ancestors to continue dictating how we live our life in our modern era, why do we consider these perceptions still relevant, everything is moving, everything is changing, our perceptions must go in the direction of movement as well,and lastly we need to ask ourselves are these the the perceptions that we ourselves, we as our society want to put our signiture on.
