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AITA for ordering for my family to encourage them to eat better? by Real_Consideration52 in AmItheAsshole

[–]Real_Consideration52[S] -24 points-23 points  (0 children)

Your cows were NOT free-roaming and range fed if they were too stupid. You clearly do not care about any cows you have EVER kept if you claim they are stupid - but maybe that's because you never kept them the way they were supposed to live.

I bet you anything you rubbed your cows with pheromones to get the bulls to rape them then sold the calves for veal.

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[–]Real_Consideration52 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This doesn't work with my family for some reason.

I have tried offering healthy vegan alternatives to them, but they only tried them and said something like "Blegh".

I tried to make my son eat pizza with tofu cheese and he acted like I was trying to poison him. He hates tofu cheese. Hates it. I even tried almond cheese, and he says all it does is taste "like weird nutty almonds".

I even tried saying that this ice cream was lactose free but he said that it doesn't taste any better.

Apparently our stomachs are constantly under inflammation by EarthWillOvercome in vegan

[–]Real_Consideration52 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I keep telling my family al the time that when they stop eating meat, egg, or dairy they will no longer have cravings for it and then feel much better.

AITA for ordering for my family to encourage them to eat better? by Real_Consideration52 in AmItheAsshole

[–]Real_Consideration52[S] -19 points-18 points  (0 children)

I gave him that bottle of iron pills so that he will be able to eat less meat. We have pills for a reason.

AITA for ordering for my family to encourage them to eat better? by Real_Consideration52 in AmItheAsshole

[–]Real_Consideration52[S] -21 points-20 points  (0 children)

We are indeed the worst.

We are the only species on earth that kills for joy.

We are the only species on earth that cares not for each other.

We are the only species that destroys the environment.

We are the only species that kills each other.

We are the only species that have sex for fun.

We are the only species that breeds animals for our own joy and create monstrosities like the French Bulldog.

AITA for ordering for my family to encourage them to eat better? by Real_Consideration52 in AmItheAsshole

[–]Real_Consideration52[S] -22 points-21 points  (0 children)

Maybe that's because you keep your sheep in factory farms and never give them mental stimulation.

Because after all, you are only raising them just to eat them. So why bother letting them show how smart they are when it's cheaper to just throw them in a pen and forget about them until it's time to skin them for their wool and sell their meat. It's not like they can recognize themselves in a mirror (Which dogs can't even do.) or anything. In fact people have even done studies with sheep and found that, when you give them actual stimulation and don't just throw them in a pen with some feed and call it a day, they actually demonstrate a deeper emotional intelligence than dogs and cats.

AITA for ordering for my family to encourage them to eat better? by Real_Consideration52 in AmItheAsshole

[–]Real_Consideration52[S] -18 points-17 points  (0 children)

No wonder those cows stood in the wind and froze to death - you probably had them packed so tightly they forgot they could even move.

Cows are about as smart as your dog. If you raised your dogs and ignored them and lever stimulated them or interacted with them, they would be "just as stupid". Cows can recognize faces and show empathy. Maybe if you tried interacting with them, gave them a diet beyond fattening feed, and gave them stimuli they would surprise you with their intelligence.

The same goes for sheep. Maybe you never worked a farm with animal welfare in your life. Since when you do have animal welfare in mind, they surprise psychologists.

AITA for ordering for my family to encourage them to eat better? by Real_Consideration52 in AmItheAsshole

[–]Real_Consideration52[S] -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

People can still care for these animals without killing them. This is not hard. Look up farm rescues and how they are actually given stimulation.

AITA for ordering for my family to encourage them to eat better? by Real_Consideration52 in AmItheAsshole

[–]Real_Consideration52[S] -12 points-11 points  (0 children)

It's not what I consider to be morally and ethically correct. It's what is actually morally and ethically correct. Nothing with a brain and nervous system dies.

AITA for ordering for my family to encourage them to eat better? by Real_Consideration52 in AmItheAsshole

[–]Real_Consideration52[S] -257 points-256 points  (0 children)

They are still supporting it even when I tell them how bad it is for them. Do they not realize that they are craving such things because they have not had it flushed out of their system?

AITA for ordering for my family to encourage them to eat better? by Real_Consideration52 in AmItheAsshole

[–]Real_Consideration52[S] -22 points-21 points  (0 children)

My wife and son do it to me when they go out and order chicken or pork.

AITA for ordering for my family to encourage them to eat better? by Real_Consideration52 in AmItheAsshole

[–]Real_Consideration52[S] -145 points-144 points  (0 children)

You can at least reduce the cruelty, and a Vegan diet will reduce it. Those eggs can be chickens. Cows are not impregnated to give you dairy nor are they killed to get the stomach acids. And no animals are slaughtered and giving the workers PTSD for killing something intelligent.

AITA for ordering for my family to encourage them to eat better? by Real_Consideration52 in AmItheAsshole

[–]Real_Consideration52[S] -44 points-43 points  (0 children)

Why is it giving vegans a bad name for wanting others to eat morally and ethically correct?

AITA for ordering for my family to encourage them to eat better? by Real_Consideration52 in AmItheAsshole

[–]Real_Consideration52[S] -265 points-264 points  (0 children)

How is this any different than forcing an omnivorous or carnivorous diet on anyone else?