• thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    I came here for people’s group chat incidents

    What I actually got is a flame war against vegans and a flame war against non vegans and they both hate vegetarians

    Please reply with your group chat incidents

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      Got drunk and sent a picture of my dick wrapped in a fur blanket with a face drawn on it and the caption “winter is cumming”

      Was pretty funny all in all, was an incredibly rowdy group chat

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      The only incidents we have is my mother’s husband keeps making new group chats. All the same people, somehow new groups.

      All the same content though, just us sharing cat photos.

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      Do you really expect anything less from an anonymous public message board? It’s practically a Law of the Internet that invoking any version of the words “vegan” or “vegetarian” is bound to spark outrage from one side or the other.

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        Disclosure: Am Vegan. Don’t hate vegetarians.

        I think it’s because many Vegans perceive Vegetarians as going half the way and then stopping dead.

        From a vegan perspective meat eaters are doing something morally wrong. But many have grown up that way and are conditioned into normalizing meat consumption. Many haven’t questioned it ever, or reflexively defend it, because it is perceived as normal.

        Vegetarians on the other hand seem to understand the problem of animals suffering. Many of them made an ethical decision not to eat meat… and then continue to contribute to animal suffering by consuming other animal products. Understanding that murder is bad and then deciding to commit it just a bit less directly, is a position many Vegans take as deeply harmful.

        Personally i am grateful for every single animal saved. Reducing meat or going vegetarian are steps in a direcion i see as good and positive. In my ideal world we would all be Vegans, but i am grateful for every little step in that direction.

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          Even just reducing our global meat consumption would make me so happy. Let it’s insane to me that there is what amounts to my eyes as a wall of tortured flesh in every grocery store, and my tofus and veggie dogs take up like half of two shelves next to the fresh vegetables.

          I can’t wrap my head around eating meat every day, but there are people who eat meat at every meal.

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        Not quite. Vegans don’t eat any animal products of any kind. Vegetarians don’t eat products that necessitate killing an animal to produce, but allow others. Note that these other products are usually from animals that will be killed for food, and that the animals that won’t be murdered still also suffer.

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          Vegetarians don’t eat meat. Hence vegans are vegetarian.

          Ovo-lacto-vegetarians allow eggs and milk. This is the common type of vegetarian in the West.

          Lacto-vegetarians allow milk, but not eggs. This is the common type of vegetarian in India.

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    Just got one going on now.

    An extended family group chat that was 99% baby photos until one person posted photos of their kids at a protest this weekend and then the chuddy trad-wife sov-cits in the family threw a fit.

    They all left the chat and said they’ll only be reachable on Facebook.

    Oh darn. All the shucks.

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      Now that is what i call an efficient way to filter out the trash from your group chat.

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    Honestly that seems pretty thoughtful of them. Most people I know would give zero shits and just post all that on a chat with vegans and vegetarians. Some of them going out of their way to post them on that chat specifically.

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    1 month ago

    Ahhh the WhatsApp Paradox

    For every chat group you’re in, there is a separate group that exists without you in it

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    aaand that’s why I’m in no group chat. Not even in the family group chat. They kept adding me and I kept leaving immediately. Everybody got angry with me. A couple of months ago something hapened and the grouo is over. I don’t know what happened because I was not there. Nobody is angry with me and I’m not angry with anyone. say NO to group chats

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      I’m the admin of our group chat and I have a “no social media shares or political talks” or muted.

      family photos and announcements only

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    I would not be surprised if my old coworker-friends started a separate group chat without me after the nth, “Maybe you should come to one of these protests” and “Please at least read the wikipedia summary on this historical topic before you start going off about it” message from me.

    They’re fine people but they’re also kind of very… apolitical.

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    My friend had someone in our discord, he was the only one who was on in the video chat, the dude popped in and said, “you wanna see a murder”

    “No?”

    Then he just vigorously started cutting himself with a knife. He was ultimately kicked out because of his drug problem

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    I would be vegan if all the food i like wouldn’t have an animal product in it, also i don’t really feel enough empathy toward animals so i don’t have that emotional push :(

    I hate that the industry of meat do bad things and polute but also i don’t want to stop eating 80% of the things i like, i try to eat meat bought from local stores, also, cheer to all vegans that did the “transition”

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      Hey at least you’re being honest, not telling us how much you love animals while you’re eating them. Do you like impossible burgers?

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        I never tried one because where i live they don’t sell many vegan alternatives to meat, if i get the hands on one i will try it! Maybe it can be a good replacement? I mean, if it taste the same who care.

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      I was able to switch myself and my family to vegetarian thanks to how good plant based meat alternatives have gotten. If you haven’t yet, I highly recommend trying out Impossible meat products. Their burgers put in an air fryer are indistinguishable from real meat for me, same with their ground beef.

      I’ve been able to cook all of my family’s favorite meat based recipes with impossible meat with no changes to the recipe, and all of them, who are life-long meat eaters, tell me they can’t tell a difference.

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      It’s certainly an inconvenient hurdle to clear to become vegetarian, let alone vegan.

      All starts with being convinced that there is something wrong with eating meat, and usually the conscience takes it from there.

      It also doesn’t help that our governments subsidize the meat and dairy industries to the point where they are some of the cheapest for people. Remove those subsidies, and people will start to see a reason to make the switch.

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          Their comment wasn’t making judgements of others, it was just a statement of personal feelings. On a memes community no less.

          I get frustrated on Lemmy seeing stuff like this. Downvoting a completely innocent comment cause they have a different belief only makes their beliefs look dumb.

          Have a conversation and let that conversation rise to the top of the comments.

          I see this and think whoever is downvoting has such a fragile world view that it will break if they see a comment that offers a different take.

          Because many of the readers here see it as an ethical issue.

          I just want to point out that the “pro lifers” and trans phobes also think their position is an “ethical” one, and all their decisions are driven by that. Doesn’t make them right just cause they think they’re doing the ethical thing.

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            Look I’m not a vegan, I was just trying to answer your question, but you’re begging the question really hard.

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              In what way am I begging the question? I was using your answer as a basis for my comment.

              I would love to know why that comment got so many downvotes. I can’t think of a good reason why.

              Edit:

              Btw, I recognize you were just giving a theory and not necessarily downvoting for that reason. But it seemed like the correct reason as well.

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                Because it’s only a completely innocent comment if you accept the premise that consuming meat is not harmful.

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      It’s the meat heads obsessed with the topic. The only reason most vegans would mention their food preference is because food is part of most peoples life’s 3 times a day. But when discovered the questioning is relentless.

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        And people always forget. “Why do vegans go on and on about it?” Because we want to be able to eat? For my stag do, my brother forgot THREE times to get me vegan products. THREE. And then complained because I “mention it too much”…I just wanna eat!

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            I respect animals but I want to keep eating meat, so I tried looking for, you know, more ethical farms.

            The best I could find is a chicken that lives a year before it’s slaughtered (compared to 60 days or less for factory farming), roams and isn’t caged.

            It costs 8-12 times more than the cruelty chicken.

            God damn.

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              Have you tried impossible type meats or even lab grown meat? I’m not sure how easily you can get the lab grown stuff or if it’s inexpensive enough for decent folks.

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                My previous comment should suggest that I look for healthy, natural products.

                Impossible burgers is Ultra Processed Foods. Famously even South Park made an episode about it.

                Lab grown meat will be the same (because it has to be cheaper than meat to be produced on scale, and because even if it starts healthy it’s quality will inevitably go down to make as cheap to produce as possible)