I feel you. I ate meat every day for the first 25 or so years of my life, and was even that guy arguing "but bacon" sometimes. Thankfully, once I went to a clean (non-processed, GMO free, organic) diet and started detoxing, my body absolutely refused to let me eat meat anymore.
Since that time I've gone from being vegan simply for health reasons, to reinforcing that with environmental & economic reasons, and finally meat-eating anarchists convinced me of the moral argument through their absolute inability to defend their own actions philosophically.
To me, it seems that the reason the programming to eat meat is so pervasive is the same as with taxes, war, etc. Because people are totally removed from the act itself, they are able to out-source responsibility for what they are doing. I've talked to SO many people who say they wouldn't kill an animal to eat it, yet will quickly buy a plastic-wrapped dead thing from the grocery store.
I'm guessing you've read @mckeever's Vegan Anarchy series?
A couple of my favorite vegan YouTubers:
- Mic The Vegan - science, statistics, facts
- Earthling Ed - morality, consistency, on-the-street interviews
- Gary Yourofsky - Such GREAT angles on these thoughts
- DISL Automatic - fitness, philosophy.. plus he's an amazing hip-hop artist
No, not familiar with @mckeever , thanks for the links, I'll check them out.
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Thanks for the mention @kennyskitchen. @truthabides, here is a link to my most recent Vegan Anarchy post, with links to the other articles included in my signature.
https://busy.org/@mckeever/vegan-anarchy-a-world-without-government-and-slaughterhouses
thanks for the link: