Very, very cool and I don't typically like tattoos. One thing, "you can't really love nature and not be vegan in this society"-- I have a lot of problems with that statement. That really depends on your belief system and definition of nature. I think it's very ignorant to so generally state that to love nature you have to be a vegan. I also think it's ignorant to say that you love nature if you aren't a vegan, but that's only because of my personal definitions of "nature" (which, what does it mean, anyway?) and I realize that I am being perhaps unjustly critical based on my own perceptions of what is right. It's like saying "let's face it, you can't really love nature and drive/ride in a car in this society", or if perhaps I were a Christian, to say that you can't really love the world if you don't love God. That's only true according to a very specific world-view that is not commonly shared
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Okay I stated that poorly. I just think being so matter-of-fact about veganism being mandatory for environmentalism is hypocritical based on what veganism is supposedly against (the matter-of-fact eating meat is just a part of life, it's the food-chain, etc. kind of viewpoint). People love nature and the world and act as environmentalists in their own ways based on what they see as the most prevalent problems. The meat industry is a big one, but what of oil, or global capitalism? The vast vast majority of vegans are dependent on oil and big business/capitalism that contributes to a degraded environment. It's a lot easier to not eat meat than to avoid participating in an economic system that includes big bad MNCs, or to avoid being at all reliant on oil, but you've got to pick your battles. Some people might not pick veganism, just as some vegans drive cars.
yes. the argument that non-vegans automatically = non-nature is absurd. there are omni indigenous people, for example, who could easily be deemed more "natural" than most vegan urbanites.
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the argument that non-vegans automatically = non-nature is absurd. there are omni indigenous people, for example, who could easily be deemed more "natural" than most vegan urbanites.
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you cannot love or appreciate something if you consistently partake of its destruction, especially unnecessarily
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so very jealous
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