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[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Lol my answer is directly related to my answer to last weeks questions

I guess cutting out meat was: I was chilling with some animals and I was like, why the fuck would I eat a living creature??? That's deranged???

And then I got bullied IRL by vegans and realized I was turning a blind eye to violence I didn't see directly. The cognitive dissonance lifted. Not commodifying/enslaving animals came with that. I didn't really think about how this "food" came to be and once I let myself understand I simply could not do it anymore.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It is funny because ultimately vegan bullying from vegan circlejerk pushed me from being an on the fence plant based person to hard core vegan lol. I guess some bullying works!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

if one can tone down their ego for a lil bit and not immediately get defensive it's a pretty nifty tactic.

I said bullying but it's not really bullying. It's getting called out on bullshit and refusing to associate with/pretend non vegans are moral people.