Think about the impact it would have on climate change if humans were allergic to meat.
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There seems to be a wildly unusual anti-meat sentiment on Lemmy. It's disproportionate from my experience in person.
I wonder if it means anything.
Lemmy's userbase is currently skewed very left wing, many people on the left are vegan or vegetarian or at least care about climate change enough to see reduction in meat consumption as a necessity to fixing it.
So it shouldn't be too much of a surprise that you see more anti-meat discourse.
Disclaimer: I eat meat
I don't think many on the left are vegan or vegetarian, I think that those two groups tend to live in the left spectrum. They're far outweighed by those that do eat meat.
True, but the proportion of non-meat eaters is certainly much higher with the sort of people that make up the majority of this community than with the whole population
They're far outweighed by those that do eat meat.
Hehe, meat-eaters fat
I'm confused by this and totally open for evidence that proves otherwise, but literally everyone I know who is vegetarian or vegan is a bit more or...insanely more on the conservative side.
I don't know any liberal vegetarian or vegans.
Depends on where you’re from. There are countries like India where being vegetarian is a conservative, religious policy, where as in the US, being vegetarian (mostly vegan) is a liberal choice.
Wait, really? My experience has been the exact opposite. Where do you live, generally?
Portland, Oregon.
Huh, fascinating. I grew up in the Northeast and live in the Southeast now. I wanna do a sociological study on this.
I think you know some crunchy people. Or some republicans with a little bit of extra brain damage. There is a very strong left bias in vegan circles and vegetarians to a lesser extent
Vegan here. I don't know any conservative vegans, except for a single YouTuber. From an anti-oppression perspective, being on the right doesn't really make sense for veganism. The right will perpetually define the taking of conscious life as personal choice as if a choice itself is morally relevant. Anyway, perhaps you live in an area with lots of repubs and neolibs?
I think overall I associate more people on the left being vegan than the right; however, anecdotally I know more vegans that are conservative/right leaning. I don’t know why that is other than maybe it being a fairly well off area with hippie roots.
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We're all ticks here
GGs I was the tick
We are rats, sir
The average lemmy user is more educated and empathetic to the impact of the industrial meat industry than the average person?
Meh. I’m not vegan. I just thought it was an interesting connection. Possibly another example of nature fighting back.
Lemmy is a foss anti-coporate project, what kind of demographics do you expect to see here ?
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Ecoterrorists finally figured it out.
I suppose. but I worry about those who cannot biologically process a vegetarian diet no matter the supplements they take. If they get bitten by the tick, they're fucked
You'd have to be pretty damn unlucky to not only have one rare condition affecting your diet, but also get bitten by the makes-you-vegetarian-bug
I do hate that this is downvoted as your comment seems to have been targeted out of rash and inflammatory reaction to your comment
Your comment is logical and I believe people who don't choose to be vеgаn shouldn't be forced into it
I'd hoped this response to comments would have stayed on reddit but apparently not
It’s a shame, but tribalism is built into our species; the moment someone gets even a whiff of ‘us vs them’, it comes back into the forefront.
Ticks are terrible; creepy just as little things that get on you, but then they also carry all sorts of diseases which drives drives up the paranoia after every hike
Read anything about Lyme disease and you’ll never feel safe again.
A friend of mine got this. It took forever to pin down what was wrong (basically it was like having IBS but didn’t know why). After learning about it he asked his doctor to test for it and they were like “lol, no way but sure okay” and lo and behold..
What did they test for, exactly? Meat allergy?
Yes, you can test for antibodies that indicate what allergies you have.
This happened to me about 5 years ago. Wasn’t too bad. Just had hives and awful gut pain. Enough to make you not want it but nothing life threatening.
Since I’ve figured it out, I’ve had beef or pork accidentally maybe two or three times. Feel awful for about a day.
I don’t miss red meat too much. Thinking about going full vegetarian.
I have it. It took years to get diagnosed and it was making me SICK. I’ve had reactions from breathing the air where they’re cooking meat. It’s no joke
I'm deathly allergic to chicken, turkey, tuna, ham, and a few other meats randomly. Life is so shit now. They hide meat products in literally everything. It's FUCKED.
I don't think I've ever seen meat being hidden in stuff. Milk, though? Fucking everywhere. Just 1% milk powder in everything so they can get those dairy subsidies.
Vegans: "Write that down! Write that down!"
I wish a mother fucka would
Everybody gangsta until Texans become allergic to BBQs
Vegans: How can i learn this power?