[ SECRET POST #4930 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4930 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

I'm vegetarian, and media had an influence on that, but it wasn't some gory or bloody scene that made me stop out of disgust. It was watching documentaries about how smart and emotional animals are or can be, and thinking about how every time I ate meat, an animal had to die. So it was more of the opposite thing for me.

That might be what some other people who say media influenced them mean, too.

No gore or horror has ever otherwise affected my appetite or anything.

[(Anonymous)]

I was coming here to say exactly this. It was a book that made me a vegetarian and it was all about the inner emotional lives of animals. I just didn't want to be responsible for another living thing's suffering and death. It has nothing to do with the visuals. I am also happy to munch away at my dinner while watching surgery shows or gore.

[tei]

Yeah, I'm habitually vegetarian solely because I'm aware of the environmental effects of the meat production industry, and can't justify buying into it as a matter of habit when it's just as easy for me not to. Which I guess is in response to a media object-- I know about the environmental carnage of that particular supply chain because of documentaries and newspaper articles-- but I don't think that's really what OP is referring to.

The kind of argument that goes along the lines of "oh but animals are so smart/emotional," that underpins a lot of vegetarian/vegan apologia-- eh, that doesn't really do it for me. I'm completely OK with being just another animal on the food chain, and all animals that eat other animals produce suffering in their food. I'm fine with that on the small scale of "this animal suffered and died so I could eat it," just not on the larger scale of "the habit of eating meat is contributing to the destruction of the planet that I live on too." It's inherently a pretty self-centred motivation, I suppose.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah. I’m not vegetarian, but I deliberately don’t eat very much meat, and will probably cut back even further as times goes on. My reasons for doing so are, in this order:

1.Sustainability/environmental impact.
2.Meat is expensive where I live.
3.Ethical consideration for the animals.

Grossness doesn’t really factor in.

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[(Anonymous)]

I respect your experiences, but that's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about people who specifically cite fictional media as they reason they no longer eat meat. I'm sorry if that wasn't clear.

Re: op

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

Oh, I see. The secret only said "media" so I didn't assume it was fiction only.

I can't speak to that part, because I haven't ever run into anyone who claimed fictional media made them vegetarian.