About half a week ago, I became self aware of my state as a piece of shit regarding the animal populations of Earth and their wellbeing. It was sparked by a video of animal abuse I saw online that I refuse to describe beyond serial-killer-level psychological torture to a poor, defenseless being.
I realize, there’s a set, and a mic, and props. This ain’t the first time, this has fucking followers and people will mimic it. We’re this shit as a species?! Where is the bottom? Is there one?!
I generally consider myself a fairly strong willed person, and my former diet wasn’t too dissimilar from dishes I could make vegan, so, I figure, why not? I saw Blue Planet 3. I know we’re fucking up. I had a few holdout food items but, pizza is my favorite food, and I believe replicating it will be fun. There’s apparently a few vegan roux recipes with some ways to mimic cheese flavor for mac and cheese. I’m into it.
Anyway, do share any tips with me that you wish you’d known when you started out. What’s a good brownie recipe?
I’m happy with letting my cat be a cat and letting me be a human. I can optionally omit meat, I’m not sure it would be too healthy for one of nature’s carnivores.
Yeah, I get the argument. I understand that the meat industry has ties to the cat food I buy, but I also know Nessa herself can’t make the decision to be vegan, and I don’t intend to force or decide for her.
Ok, it goes a bit deeper, but she’s safe, healthy, cared for and gets tons of love. If thrown outside to hunt rats seems more appropriate and I’m somehow seen as imprisoning her, I can deal with the internal turmoil knowing she’ll have a long life purring and playing despite her “suffering”.
Humans are very good at convincing ourselves and finding excuses. I’m convincing myself that my cat would be out there destroying the ecosystem and making more cats, but now it mostly chills home, castrated, but well treated. And vegan pet foods are not possible for my circumstances so we’ll have to buy the food we think will better support him.
Still, it’s all a point of contention, and you can understand why.