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I hope those who are against eating meat enjoy this enough to allow we meat eaters enjoy our meat in peace

Both the meat-centered diet crowd and the vegan crowd seem to be about equally awful about being judgy about what other people eat. I eat a semi vegetarian diet. I'm not a vegetarian but some of my meals are. Both camps seem equally happy to give me hell.

I try to hope that most aren't really like that and, like with homeless people, we just seem to notice and remember the worst representatives of such groups because the rest are so quiet as to go unnoticed.

> Both camps seem equally happy to give me hell.

Important to remember here that it's a tiny vocal minority from each side. Probably in the <0.01% range. Most people just live their lives.

> it's a tiny vocal minority from each side. Probably in the <0.01% range

It's important to keep this rule in mind for all public discussions. Unfortunately, no one, including politicians and policymakers, does.

To be honest, if one day there's lab-grown meat available in every store with comparable quality and prices to animal meat (!), I will inevitably form some sort of opinion on people who still pick animal meat.

Us vegans get a lot more heat from meat eaters than the other way around. And I mean both social heat and environmental heat.

I've never seen a meat eater forcing anything upon a vegan.

But you see the inverse all the time.

Bullshit

Meat eaters will still get heat from those who oppose the production of meat on ethical grounds. There, the question of who enjoys what is a distant consideration compared to the death and suffering of those being eaten.

What makes you think that? I'm a vegan who's been involved in animal rights activism for four years, and I've never met another vegan who opposes cultured meat on ethical grounds (or for any other reason). There are plenty who are excited to eat it, in fact.

I can't even think of an ethical argument against cultured meat.

I meant traditional meat. It's possible that I misunderstood the previous post.

Actually, upon rereading the parent comment, I think I'm the one who misunderstood! That's my bad, hah.

If you can afford it without the unimaginably massive subsidies it gets today then go for it.

Edit: also humanly slaughtered

life experience teaches me that if many people start to accept this, they'll start to push it on others via legislation. (see: vaccination. No talk of force until >50% was vaccinated, suddenly forcing on others became feasable and desirable for them)

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