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svnoyi:

android-pigstina:

houseofangryhippies:

android-pigstina:

I came up because the OP is a friend of mine, and if I see you giving my friend shit, I’m going to call you out. Maybe YOU should stop trying to recruit everyone in the fucking world to your vegan religion,…

This person truly sums up my feelings about militant veganism- and militant people in general. The truth is, I’m not an Indigenous person of the place that I live in- nor do I live in the Americas.

Whilst I admire and respect many people- including my friends- who’re committed to a vegetarian/vegan diet, environmentally conscious and take a stance against animal cruelty, it really upsets me when certain people aggressively bash others with their beliefs armed with complete ignorance of someone’c culture, history, context or even their health.

Maybe your convictions doesn’t fall on the same grounds as someone else’s- but who are you to disregard theirs as irrelevant or having no logical basis?? You are privileged- privileged enough that you don’t have to take a road trip to buy your groceries, you have the financial resources of doing so, you have good health, you most likely don’t have to spend time wondering IF you are ever going to eat for the next few days.

Did you know that in many places all over the world, people have to rely on eating the animals not out of savagery, but because it is all that they have to eat. Has it ever occurred to anyone that sometimes depending on where you live, the land isn’t fertile enough or isn’t right to be able to grow and harvest the food you want? Or that the closest markets takes days to get there and the price of vegetables is actually much, much more expensive than meat?

I dare you to try to cultivate your own food on difficult land, or live extremely far away from the nearest grocery store, be so financially crippled that you can’t afford to chose your meals. Yeah, I’m pretty sure you’re not going to resort to cannibalism.

I have visited an Indigenous community called Yarrabah, and this man is right. Although it is on the other side of the world, when you see and talk to the people living there, it’s impossible to deny that western colonialism imposed onto their families generations ago still affects them in the present day. With issues such as poor nutrition, misuse of drugs and alcohol, poverty, prejudice, to name a few. Despite this, the community is slowly healing and an aspect of this involves engaging in their traditional way of life- and yes, a part of that involves ethically hunting animals. To whoever originally wrote “Not all cultural differences are ethical or necessary in a modern society”, I dare you to utter such words to these people.

And guess what- there is no race, no country, no continent in this world that is guilt free of animal exploitation and environmental destruction? Disregard the fact that mass consumer demand and pollution from industrialised nations kills more animals and harms the environment more than indigenous hunting ever will. 

In my opinion, healing the world in general, nurturing it and caring for its creatures whether they are great or small, doesn’t benefit from bigotry and ignorance. We need to move past it and learn from each other.

And for a broader perspective on vegetarianism/veganism, here’s a great article: http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2010/07/vegetarianism-worse-for-the-environment

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