I am a full fledged carnivore. There, I said it. Stay away from me, vegans, I’m dangerous!! XD
Jokes aside, my real case scenario is that I have ARFID (Avoidant Restricted Food Intake Disorder). With that said, it’s already a pain in the ass for us (some of us at least) to deal with.
And then there’s the political extremism in so-called ethics in eating meat. Because according to those people, eating meat is always, and I mean ALWAYS ethically wrong. And those who argue against such cases such as myself are told that there’s no point in defending ourselves because the morals of animal rights is OBVIOUS. (I hate Vox and other vegan propaganda sites)
https://www.vox.com/2015/8/9/9122907/meat-ethics
There’s also a supposedly moral method that being vegan is a “healthier lifestyle”, because for some stupid reason eating meat has NO health benefits whatsoever (despite the fact that protein is a HUGE source for energy). Healthier my butt! As I said I have ARFID, I cannot stand the taste of vegetables, and I constantly vomited them out as a baby.
For those of you who are saying “but you’ll eventually like the vegan diet if you ever learn about how REALLY bad the animal exploitation is, so you gotta try it, it’s the only way to be ethical and healthy”, I already know damn well about animal exploitation. The problem is though, I have a better time consuming and digesting animal products compared to fruits and vegetables because I have extreme teeth sensitivity to acids and protein is the better alternative for my energy. It’s bad enough that I have excessive guilt going through me but whenever I see memes that trash on “animal lovers” and the annoying hashtag #GoVegan, I utterly go “that’s it, I might as well be dead”.
Living with ARFID sucks, and being piled upon by vegan propaganda is even worse. It is a huge discouragement to my already restrictive lifestyle. And the biggest lie of it all is that it intends to debunk every single rational argument against veganism, framing it as delusional and defensive, meanwhile veganism itself tries to portray itself as progressive (anti-racist, matriarchal, etc.).
The truth is however, at least what I see, is that veganism is anything BUT progressive. Veganism ignores the African cultures that encourage an all-meat diet, it overlooks the systemic misogyny indoctrinated in foods (particularly masculinity in meat and femininity in vegetables), and most of all, it hurts the disabled community and promotes diet culture by creating even more restrictions and moral norms on what is good and bad.
Now I will admit that a vegan diet has helped some people in terms of health benefits, and I’m not trying to attack anybody who is/was involved in the vegan community (cue the flood of comments of endless accusations). I just want to be honest with myself and all of you.
I don’t want to be “moral” anymore, ok? Living with ARFID is difficult as hell, so cut us some slack. Rant over.
Jokes aside, my real case scenario is that I have ARFID (Avoidant Restricted Food Intake Disorder). With that said, it’s already a pain in the ass for us (some of us at least) to deal with.
And then there’s the political extremism in so-called ethics in eating meat. Because according to those people, eating meat is always, and I mean ALWAYS ethically wrong. And those who argue against such cases such as myself are told that there’s no point in defending ourselves because the morals of animal rights is OBVIOUS. (I hate Vox and other vegan propaganda sites)
https://www.vox.com/2015/8/9/9122907/meat-ethics
There’s also a supposedly moral method that being vegan is a “healthier lifestyle”, because for some stupid reason eating meat has NO health benefits whatsoever (despite the fact that protein is a HUGE source for energy). Healthier my butt! As I said I have ARFID, I cannot stand the taste of vegetables, and I constantly vomited them out as a baby.
For those of you who are saying “but you’ll eventually like the vegan diet if you ever learn about how REALLY bad the animal exploitation is, so you gotta try it, it’s the only way to be ethical and healthy”, I already know damn well about animal exploitation. The problem is though, I have a better time consuming and digesting animal products compared to fruits and vegetables because I have extreme teeth sensitivity to acids and protein is the better alternative for my energy. It’s bad enough that I have excessive guilt going through me but whenever I see memes that trash on “animal lovers” and the annoying hashtag #GoVegan, I utterly go “that’s it, I might as well be dead”.
Living with ARFID sucks, and being piled upon by vegan propaganda is even worse. It is a huge discouragement to my already restrictive lifestyle. And the biggest lie of it all is that it intends to debunk every single rational argument against veganism, framing it as delusional and defensive, meanwhile veganism itself tries to portray itself as progressive (anti-racist, matriarchal, etc.).
The truth is however, at least what I see, is that veganism is anything BUT progressive. Veganism ignores the African cultures that encourage an all-meat diet, it overlooks the systemic misogyny indoctrinated in foods (particularly masculinity in meat and femininity in vegetables), and most of all, it hurts the disabled community and promotes diet culture by creating even more restrictions and moral norms on what is good and bad.
Now I will admit that a vegan diet has helped some people in terms of health benefits, and I’m not trying to attack anybody who is/was involved in the vegan community (cue the flood of comments of endless accusations). I just want to be honest with myself and all of you.
I don’t want to be “moral” anymore, ok? Living with ARFID is difficult as hell, so cut us some slack. Rant over.
