I am vegetarian, but have no objection to putting meat in my mouth if e.g. someone insists on serving it to me on a special occasion, or it would otherwise be thrown away. I think in a hundred years, yes it'll have gone the way of slavery (though we can almost replicate non-meaty meat already).
The only people I have an objection too are carnivores who somehow believe that meat is the only truly tasty substance on earth, and that a dish without meat in it is inevitably bland and unsatisfying - it bespeaks a staggering ignorance of the tastes and textures that can be conjured up without meat. My father-in-law is one of these people, he is very silly. I think most meat-evangelists are just set in their ways and haven't explored alternatives, but after embarking on a diet without meat I find myself healthier, richer, less depressed and less worried about the insane ways my food may have been industrially processed on the way to the supermarket, so it certainly works for me.
If you want to know why a lot of people nowadays seem to believe that meat is for every meal, and not an occasional thing, I suspect there are some rich and powerful livestock farming lobbyists out there who know the answer.
To want to hammer into other people that meat is the only right and proper food smacks of some kind of imagination failure to me. I feel the same way about Christianity evangelists and indeed atheism evangelists.
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The only people I have an objection too are carnivores who somehow believe that meat is the only truly tasty substance on earth, and that a dish without meat in it is inevitably bland and unsatisfying - it bespeaks a staggering ignorance of the tastes and textures that can be conjured up without meat. My father-in-law is one of these people, he is very silly. I think most meat-evangelists are just set in their ways and haven't explored alternatives, but after embarking on a diet without meat I find myself healthier, richer, less depressed and less worried about the insane ways my food may have been industrially processed on the way to the supermarket, so it certainly works for me.
If you want to know why a lot of people nowadays seem to believe that meat is for every meal, and not an occasional thing, I suspect there are some rich and powerful livestock farming lobbyists out there who know the answer.
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That's a bit of a sweeping statement there.
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To want to hammer into other people that meat is the only right and proper food smacks of some kind of imagination failure to me. I feel the same way about Christianity evangelists and indeed atheism evangelists.
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