Yeah my Mum makes/buys my food and I want to make her life as easy as possible. I’m already a picky eater. Weird thing is she doesn’t eat a lot of meat so the majority of the food she eats is vegetarian friendly it’s just me and the rest of the family she cooks meat for.
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Highly unlikely. I just like meat.
It’s their choice, you have no right to judge or infere. Before you do that, think about your own life first.
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Not saying all veggies are bad but if you’re the type to talk s**t on other people’s dietary choices, then you’re despicable!
Being vegetarian/vegan doesn’t mean you’re a good person. Don’t trust fools like Freelee The Banana Girl as she is a massive hypocrite! Well she’s a vegan but she’s one of these fools that think all meat eaters deserve to die. Being vegetarian/vegan doesn’t mean you’re healthy either.
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Basically my ex-teacher, she was super toxic.
She said “I don’t want to teach you anymore, let me know when you want to stop this lesson.”
So yeah, I immediately stopped her lesson and she changed her carrer.
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Really? Why’s that?
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Idk, she probably wanted me to stop her lesson so she can change her carrer.
But whatever, she was being rude to me, so bye.
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So I guess she shoved her dietary choices down your throat.
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Yes.
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What a toxic biaaaatch!
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See, voting is different. Because each person has a provable same effect. Its just simply not the same with pollution, and the media has tried to portray the idea that it is the same, and that’s just wrong. It’s not an issue we can fix by holding hands and praying for change while making small dietary changes and driving a more economic car. Those are things that make us feel better because the media and politicians say it makes a difference, because its in their best interest to help these huge companies thrive.
And if capitalism actually worked like supply and demand, we wouldn’t have this problem. That’s falling right into the trap of thinking capitalism of this sort works, its just the people behind it who are bad. You know, the kne bad egg in the otherwise working system argument, which was also made as propaganda to help large companies 
demand doesn’t effect supply, supply affects demand. That’s why marketing exists, and why we have such a massive waste problem.
As for each person making a difference. Its a wonderful idea, and I would never discourage anyone from voting, because everyone’s vote has the same value. But pollution is a matter of scale. Your car doesn’t matter, your meat intake doesn’t matter. Several million people’s cars don’t matter, their meat intake doesn’t matter. so long as the large corporations get to continue unchecked, the issue will remain. They want people to be looking at themselves instead of at the bigger picture. To make small (less affordable) changes in their own life instead of voting for systemic change
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Not with the US’s electoral college system! A Democrat in Florida has more of an effect than a Democrat in New York because Florida is more of a mix so the vote matters, but New York (barring a catastrophic change in the future) will vote Democrat anyway, so it doesn’t really move the needle… Maybe if we’re talking about popular vote-based elections. And this is not even mentioning election fraud and all that fun topic entails…
I don’t think that it’s been the media pushing people to consider helping the environment at all. If anything, it’s the opposite since we’re so inundated with ads and product placement. Maybe there’s some noise of “going green” but it is quite ineffective in my opinion because it is easy to make “green” choices when you are not stressed/busy/poor/etc but the subliminal marketing of sh*tty companies that pollute will win over your brain anytime you encounter a problem, so it’s rendered null even though you feel great when you succeed at being “green” in ideal conditions. And yeah, some of the “green” labels are marketing BS that do help huge companies thrive.
But that’s not what I’m proposing at all. Certain groups of people need to make radical changes for this to make any kind of effect. And I’m saying this to others as much as I am to myself. I love to travel and now live on another continent from my family and need to keep my flying in check.
While, yes, marketing sucks for reasons mentioned above, our supply of perishable food would not go up if demand (or perceived demand) wasn’t growing or at least staying the same as well. Brazil’s president wouldn’t order the amazon to be logged and turned into cattle farms if it wasn’t so profitable. I personally think there’s not one bad egg in capitalism, but every egg is tainted as consumers are not hapless little people who happen to fall victim to evil companies. It’s a two way street. You can turn a blind eye to the kids making your cheap clothes, the kids mining your smartphone parts, the forests burning and the species disappearing for your dinner, but ignorance is ignoring those problems. And without a global power controlling each of the supply chain factors in all of those awful industries, you have to hold someone accountable and I think it’s time we hold ourselves accountable, while advocating for regulatory changes. (I’m again talking to myself with my albeit old and cracked, iPhone and Uniqlo clothes…)
Also, here’s a look at per capita demand for meat products over the years:
source: Meat and Dairy Production - Our World in Data
I still just don’t get why it wouldn’t help though. There are billions of people on the planet, and I think the individualistic outlook is kind of what gets us in trouble with capitalism… And some countries are just at an insane scale, so maybe what doesn’t work in the UK, would be hugely helpful in the US. For example, noncommercial driving creates about 20% of the US’s greenhouse gas emissions. Everyone cutting their usage by 10% would cut the entire country’s emissions by 2%, not huge, but not nothing and according to this article, that’s the same as taking about 28 coal-fired power plants offline for a year. Which is not nothing! And at the end of the article, regulatory changes are advocated for so it feels less “do this and nothing else.”
Yeah, unfortunately I have yet to see politicians with comprehensive and sufficient environmental platforms get elected. I think it’s a feedback loop. If people make changes to prove they’re committed to making change, more politicians will come out for this systemic change. If we just grumble on the internet (myself especially included) and don’t practice what we preach, we’re doomed to repeat the past.
I just don’t think it’s a zero sum game, where you can only change policy or only change consumer habits.
I think I just get passionate about this kind of stuff because I consider myself an environmentalist of sorts but I make sh*tty decisions for the environment all the time for the sake of convenience, but I know so many people who make even worse ones and it frustrates me when they have this kind of attitude because together we’d have the kind of power to change things as like people with no kids and enough disposable income, but they don’t care because it’s not like it’d make a difference, you know? So it hits a nerve. Like when people litter because the street’s already dirty, you know?
Another interesting article I couldn’t work into my diatribe because I honestly couldn’t read it again haha
Reducing meat to reduce impact - paper in Science and article
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Truthfully, I can never go vegetarian/vegan because I love meat haha 
Plus these documentaries about slaughterhouses doesn’t affect me.
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Well, I myself don’t eat meat, chicken and fish at all, yet I don’t know whether or not to define myself as vegetarian.
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I’d say you are, but it’s up to you!
For some reason, I avoid defining myself as a vegetarian…
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Do you know why? Is there a negative connotation in your mind with the word?
Wish I did.
To be honest, no. I mean, I never considered the word “vegetarian” as a term with a negative connotation, yet I avoid using it to define myself as such one.
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It’s kinda funny actually. I have a friend who can’t eat meat due to medical reasons but she doesn’t call herself vegetarian because she see’s it as more of a mindset and if she was able to she would like to eat meat.
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I am noticing that I am slowly starting to struggle more with eating vegetarian just because I am a bit done with thinking about what to cook 
Have you ever tried indian food? (A bit non specific I know )
But they have some really good vegetarian friendly foods
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