Veganism

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

I see that almost everyone in the topic not only eats meat but most can't even imagine life without eating plenty of it even for every meal. But through most of the human history people were mostly vegetarians, meaning that they ate meat only a few times a year at most. Even the Roman gladiators were vegetarians and ate a lot of barley.

Animals were held for other purposes than for eating. Like sheep for their wool and cows to plow the fields, but today they barely live for long and are grown for food.

But, today that life is forgotten. People would rather eat some low grade meat like spam and hot dogs than non meat products. Like, a lot of people don't know what the alternative is and think that vegetarians eat mostly soy products like tofu. And there is that suspicious mentality for non meat eaters that they are in some ridiculous cult, (like you have to have some ideological reason for not eating meat every day, rather than just behaving like humans behaved for most of the history) which no doubt comes from meat industry, similar how oil companies are trying to portray drivers of electric cars.

And how can you blame people when the quality of food is degraded. People used to be filled with just eating bread which today is unimaginable when our bread is little more than a spiderweb that we use with eating meat. And even meat is not "meat". Sure if you eat a steak, but most people eat meat products without knowing what is in it, and we even have a saying "Anyone who loves sausages should never watch them being made" and we're fine with it.

‘Mostly vegetarian’ means the same thing as ‘omnivore’, which is what most humans have always been.

Boru