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Think about the impact it would have on climate change if humans were allergic to meat.
There seems to be a wildly unusual anti-meat sentiment on Lemmy. It's disproportionate from my experience in person.
I wonder if it means anything.
Lemmy's userbase is currently skewed very left wing, many people on the left are vegan or vegetarian or at least care about climate change enough to see reduction in meat consumption as a necessity to fixing it.
So it shouldn't be too much of a surprise that you see more anti-meat discourse.
Disclaimer: I eat meat
I'm confused by this and totally open for evidence that proves otherwise, but literally everyone I know who is vegetarian or vegan is a bit more or...insanely more on the conservative side.
I don't know any liberal vegetarian or vegans.
That's fascinating, here in Germany it's the opposite, at least in my experience. Everyone I know who is vegetarian or vegan (including me) tends to lean more left than those who eat meat.
I am left wing but I'm not vegan and I'll never be vеgаn and that is my personal choice
I don't mind if others are vеgаn or vegetarian but when you start bullying people off a platform for not being vеgаn then that's when I do mind
If I do see any of that bullying I do report it and I suggest you should too
/positive connotation
Who's being bullied?
I don't think many on the left are vegan or vegetarian, I think that those two groups tend to live in the left spectrum. They're far outweighed by those that do eat meat.
Hehe, meat-eaters fat
I suppose. but I worry about those who cannot biologically process a vegetarian diet no matter the supplements they take. If they get bitten by the tick, they're fucked
That's a thing? I mean, non-meat products are... well, an absolute fuckton. Obviously I know there's stuff like gluten or fructose intolerance, allergies, etc.,but the spectrum of "things that aren't meat" just seems too large for somebody to be incapable to live without it. Like, you would have to be absolute stacked with rare medical issues affecting your dietary options.