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Originally Posted by Barkingturtle
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That said, I'd like to take this opportunity to ask you all a quick question. I don't personally involve myself in these supermarket funerals because I'm not sure about the efficacy of these sort of demonstrations. I see a couple "lol's" and "wtf's" and frankly that's sort of what I expect. But I wonder, what sort of demonstration do you believe would be helpful in getting you to abandon the comfort of your cognitive dissonance to start making better choices based on facts and logic, rather than defaulting to the social programming with which you've been raised?
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Doing things like super market funerals make the group look like extremists and radicals (which most people shy away from). The truth of the matter is less than 1% of the population thinks the way you do. As a meat eater the most effective thing I have seen is showing the cruelty and brutality that happens in slaughter houses.
I personally do not feel animals have any rights. Animals are here to serve humans and that may sound harsh but I am entitled to my beliefs just as you are entitled to yours. Do I kill or hurt animals for no reason? No. Do I beat or fight my dogs? No, because I am not a psychopath who likes to see things get hurt, but I also find it crazy that someone can go to jail for abusing a dog or chicken. They are not the same as us and I don't think that is even debatable.
Most vegans/veggies that have given me their spiel on why eating meat is wrong just come off as sounding pretentious and spoiled to me. Hunting has been the most viable way for humans to survive for thousands of years. Although we are approaching a time and place where 100% of people not eating meat might theoretically be possible, it is very short sighted of you to say its wrong when the human species literally would not be here if our ancestors were not hunters. Higher cognitive development isn't even possible from an evolutionary stand point without all the protein meat contains. Only reason you are able to think for yourself is likely because your great great great great great grand paw killed Babmi to feed his family.
If you find it necessary to mettle in other peoples lives and press your agenda onto others I would recommend showing footage of slaughter houses... it's a pretty good way to make people think twice about what they are eating.
I am just not convinced removing meat from the menu solves anymore problems than it would create.