Kate, you are absolutely right. I have no major food allergies, food will not kill me, and if I started eating meat again eventually it would not even cause me pain and would have no major long-term health problems. I have a huge amount of food privilege and I did not take it into account before writing this piece at all. That is, to put it somewhat gently, very fucking stupid of me. Especially since this post is supposed to be directly addressing issues of choosing to do things/not choosing to do things, it goes directly counter to my point not to acknowledge the immense amount of privilege I have simple because I can make that choice. Before I say anything else I just want to thank you for calling me out on that.
And now I want to re-think everything I thought in this post with that in mind, because it does matter, and food privilege is central to what I'm talking about here, in a way. I don't think I've thought everything through clearly yet, but this is what I've come up with
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However this is only in my personal situation. Let's run through it again if I didn't have food privilege, like, um, a shitton of people don't for all sorts of reasons
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Before I say anything else I just want to thank you for calling me out on that.
And now I want to re-think everything I thought in this post with that in mind, because it does matter, and food privilege is central to what I'm talking about here, in a way. I don't think I've thought everything through clearly yet, but this is what I've come up with ( ... )
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