something bothers me
we went to dinner at the Mexican restaurant and there were few vegan options. i guess i could have paid 10 bucks for a veggie burrito hold the sour cream and cheese but i got rice and beans with a side of corn tortillas for 5 bucks instead. they brought me the dish and i took the cheese off the top of the beans. one of the guys said "hey man that looks really tasty!" but you could tell the sarcasm in his voice. his meal was a quesidilla packed with chicken and cheese and sour cream. i wanted to disappear.
nothing i would say could change his mind about food. for many people vegetarianism is not philosophically defensible. it seams, though, that people also forget that nihilism is not a philosophically defensible stance on a lot of things. They think that just because one segment of the population says no to meat products, it won't make a difference to the 60% percent of mad made greenhouse gasses attributable to animal farming, or the unholy slaughtering of animals for food or byproducts (kosher/halal food excluded).
people tend to look past health and nutrition as simply being physiological phenoms when in fact the spiritual aspects of health are just as important. Especially here in soCal, people seem to think that if you ride a bike someplace, it's because you're poor, not because you feel like riding a bike. This is the area of the world where escalators lead to the gym, the "lap band" (laproscopic gastric bypass/gastric banding surgery) billboards proudly share ad space with McDonalds, and despite it being sunny 300 days out of the year, tanning salons just keep springing up in every strip mall.
So when he said "hey man that looks really tasty!" I just smiled and said "Yeah. Yeah it is."
nothing i would say could change his mind about food. for many people vegetarianism is not philosophically defensible. it seams, though, that people also forget that nihilism is not a philosophically defensible stance on a lot of things. They think that just because one segment of the population says no to meat products, it won't make a difference to the 60% percent of mad made greenhouse gasses attributable to animal farming, or the unholy slaughtering of animals for food or byproducts (kosher/halal food excluded).
people tend to look past health and nutrition as simply being physiological phenoms when in fact the spiritual aspects of health are just as important. Especially here in soCal, people seem to think that if you ride a bike someplace, it's because you're poor, not because you feel like riding a bike. This is the area of the world where escalators lead to the gym, the "lap band" (laproscopic gastric bypass/gastric banding surgery) billboards proudly share ad space with McDonalds, and despite it being sunny 300 days out of the year, tanning salons just keep springing up in every strip mall.
So when he said "hey man that looks really tasty!" I just smiled and said "Yeah. Yeah it is."