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True, actions speak. So I do what I can. You probably don't but that's an assumption I admit.
You've got a lot of assumptions, but that's OK. Like people choosing to eat meat. I don't think that, as I say, you're fine to believe the assumptions you make are fact. Even if they're anecdotal. Like people don't need to be educated. I disagree. And it's proven by the rhetoric used in discussing PETA.
Your "most vegans" argument is moot when as a vegan, the discussions surrounding rewilding are far more common than your slice of a piece of what I've talked about with them. As I reinstate, it's simply anti vegan rhetoric that you're so on board with, your world view is rocked, and can't see the forest from the trees.
For clarity, I don't think you're an idiot or uneducated, just misguided and have been misinformed for so long, your very core is against the idea, and you're smart enough to justify why you feel like that.
At the end of the day, you are against veganism, that's cool imo, but I do hope one day people like yourself can see the fight against oppression doesn't stop at humans.
And this right here is the problem. But you know that and I'm not sure you care.
I'm not the one judging the supermajority of people as "unworthy" and "uneducated". I make very few assumptions, and even fewer judgements. Look in the mirror.
People don't need to be propagandized. I'm all about education. I encourage education. For most problems, education is the way out. Listening to someone take their morals and convince you of some hokey pseudo-scientific claim of fact is not education.
Would you listen to yourself? If someone says something that doesn't match this clearly fictional view about a meatless-utopia is "rhetoric". Like I'm reading some "how to screw with perfect people, by Mr. Satan" pamphlets? How about this counter. The vegan side simply doesn't hold water. Period. That's it. My so-called rhetoric is just "calling bullshit".
Why? Because I disagree with vegans? All I see is trollish behavior and downvotes from people who demonstrably show lack of knowledge. When I grew up, my friends were becoming environmental engineers and farmers, and my family struggles have made me acutely aware of the complex nutritional questions that exist. I'm "misinformed" because I've been surrounded by experts in the various fields. But I suppose you would tell a PhD in nutrition that they're misinformed on the health side if they don't agree with you, and would tell a PhD in Environmental Engineering the same. I bet you would tell a small-time farmer that they're misinformed about how their negative-margin milk cow (since the strike price of milk is down) is still necessary because it's the only way their plant crops are profitable.
We're alllll just misinformed. But the vegans, oh boy, just like the Christians, those vegans know the right of it. And they'll save my soul if I just let them.
Correction. I'm against preachy, militant, veganism. More specifically, I'm against all proselytization, but that from veganism is the worst I've seen of late. I have vegans in my family, and I have no problem with them.
I already don't. While you're fighting to get everyone to stop eating meat, I do my part to fight against Big Ag (meat and plant). I support free range laws that are actually animals getting to live their best lives. I'm against anti-natalism (like PETA and anti-farm initiatives) because that is oppression, too. I fight against preachy vegans because they are oppressing animals in their own way.
Whatever beef... you have with veganism, I don't need to combat you. There are people that do know the middle way, and live it as much as possible, without needing to be taught. And there are people who will find it and learn from it. You may be one of them, but the energy you put into this back and forth isn't worth the time, honestly.
You should REALLY write a book, because there is nothing but anguish on your part to gain while messaging me, just as I realised there was nothing more to say 3 weeks ago. It's quite a shame you haven't noticed I checked out a while ago upon catching your anecdotal rhetoric, what if I just don't believe you, you've given no evidence to support your claims, and they're BOLD claims.
I've felt no need to explain myself, and if you feel morally inferior, that's on you. I'm not morally superior, but I strive to be better than I was. There's the difference.
I wish you the best in your life, even while contributing to unnecessary suffering while using a fantastic brain to justify it.
With militant preachy religions where outsiders are inferior.
For the rest, you've gone off the deep-end. I'll stop replying to you until the next time I see you insult me to somebody else.