[ SECRET POST #4509 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4509 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[The Murders]


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[Shadowhunters]


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[Saved By the Bell]


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[art by echeverita]


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06.
[Hyperbole and a Half]


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[Peter Mayhew (who played Chewbacca) and Carrie Fisher]

















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Comments

How many of you are vegetarian/vegan and why?

[(Anonymous)]

Just curious.

Re: How many of you are vegetarian/vegan and why?

[(Anonymous)]

I'll answer all the questions I usually get asked because I'm bored.

I never wanted to eat meat as a kid. I hate the idea of eating animals (I'm that kid who cried when I accidentally stepped on bugs) and the texture and taste has always bothered me, and I have problems with my gut so digesting it is so exhausting I would feel gross for hours after eating it.

I got to my teenage years and realised there was nothing anyone could really do about it if I didn't want to eat it because I was very independent by that stage. Haven't had any in 14 years. I sometimes forget that there's a word for not eating meat. I don't feel like I would be able to influence anyone else not to eat it, but I do wish we'd move on from unsustainable and environmentally harmful food production as a society.

I'm not vegan. I eat eggs sometimes, but I know the chickens supplying them and they taste a lot better than store bought anyway because those ladies get a varied diet. I'm lactose intolerant so I don't drink real milk. Some poor farmer milks some almonds for me somehow.

I think peta are crazypants. No, I don't think I miss anything other than some "chicken" flavoured things... some of which turned out to not contain any chicken at all so I still get my MSG fix lol.

Re: How many of you are vegetarian/vegan and why?

[(Anonymous)]

There is something deeply, painfully ironic about anyone complaining about unsustainable and environmentally harmful food production in the same comment as they talk about drinking almond milk.

Re: How many of you are vegetarian/vegan and why?

[(Anonymous)]

Seriously. Almonds are horrid for the environment.

Re: How many of you are vegetarian/vegan and why?

[(Anonymous)]

NAYRT—not really. It’s more that, much like current large-scale cow milk production, large scale almond (milk and otherwise) production is all about $$ at the expense of the environment because it’s concentrated in parts of California where there’s not enough water to sustain thousands of hectares of almond (or any other tree nut/stone fruit) trees, or cattle, or honestly, anything that requires lots of water.

Re: How many of you are vegetarian/vegan and why?

[(Anonymous)]

Which does, in fact, mean that almonds - particularly in milk form - are horrible for the environment. The possibility of a hypothetical sustainable model being dreamt up in the future is irrelevant to current reality.

And given the climate requirements for almond trees to thrive, it's unlikely that almond milk could be sustainably produced for large portions of the world - the fuel requirements to ship it in bulk from places where almond trees are actually meant to grow would be as bad as the water waste.

Re: How many of you are vegetarian/vegan and why?

[(Anonymous)]

I'm reducitarian, I guess?

I hardly ever eat meat, but I don't make myself a rule of "don't eat meat ever" because I have a history of disordered eating, and don't want to risk falling back into old, orthorexic patterns.

Re: How many of you are vegetarian/vegan and why?

[philstar22]

I'm not, but I've thought about becoming vegetarian when I can actually afford it and am living on my own. Ethical reasons in terms of how animals are treated.

Re: How many of you are vegetarian/vegan and why?

[rosehiptea]

I'm vegetarian because I always thought it was preferable since I didn't really have to eat animals to live. For a long time I figured I could never get used to not having meat but one day I realized I hardly ever ate it and I just stopped. I don't really like meat anyway. I miss fish sometimes but I don't really miss meat.

Re: How many of you are vegetarian/vegan and why?

[(Anonymous)]

I'm vegetarian + milk/dairy because I didn't eat much meat before anyway, I hate seafood, and it was an easy and convenient moral decision. I don't really like the idea that an animal died so I could eat it, so I did something about that.

"But but you eat eggs and milk!" someone will cry, and I will say yeah, sure, but one chicken by itself produces like 1000+ eggs in its lifetime, and one chicken by itself produces exactly one meat chicken in its lifetime, so it's not really comparable at all. Then just extend that rationale to other animal products that aren't meat.

Re: How many of you are vegetarian/vegan and why?

[type_wild]

I like meat, but I never buy and prepare it myself any more because all of it is somehow destroying the environment to larger or smaller extent. Also, the ethical questions of industry farming and animal-friendly meat is not available to me. Also, it makes all of us fat and cancerous and whatnot.

I don't consider myself a vegetarian and certainly not a vegan, but I try to eat as little meat as possible because that's better for all parties involved.

Re: How many of you are vegetarian/vegan and why?

[(Anonymous)]

I’m vegetarian. My parents were old former-farmer hippies who ate (organic free range back when it was hard to find) meat only rarely. I never much liked the texture of red meat, and when I was ten or so my dad brought home some baby chicks to raise into laying hens.

Thanks to my upbringing, at ten I already knew factory farming was awful (and I used to gross my friends out at cookouts by describing what exactly went into hotdogs) but it got really difficult to justify eating chickens when I had some who’d follow me around, peeping and squawking and hoping for treats and skritches.

I stopped eating chicken, followed shortly by beef, which I’d never much liked and also I had dim memories of feeding my parents’ cows ears of corn as a toddler. Then I stopped eating fish, bacon (I’d never had any other kind of pork) and meat in general. I miss bacon, crab, lobster, and smoked salmon, but not enough to kill for meat.

Re: How many of you are vegetarian/vegan and why?

[(Anonymous)]

I'm vegetarian. I started in high school after learning about the environmental impact of the meat industry, and the horrible conditions of factory farming. My dad is a hunter/fisher and I realized, much to his disappointment, I couldn't kill animals (don't even slap flies). He told me if you eat meat, you're still killing the animal, you're just paying someone else to do it. I realized he was right.

I am not morally opposed to eating meat, to be clear. It's natural and normal. But animals need to be treated humanely and we need to take better care of our planet.

On the other hand, I was more fired up about it when I started. It's been like 12 years now, and so it's mostly just habit. If I accidentally eat something with meat, I get queasy and feel sick.