where can a girl get a cherry coke at this fine hour

this evening I shrunk my most favorite comfiest jeans AND experienced the worst churros ive ever had

@moth_ball @kaia I dont like deep voices and big muscles!! plus I want to be the strong one

@kaia @moth_ball yikes couldnt be me

@kaia yeah they are lol

@kaia shit like this makes me remember I'm kinda bisexual

Meat consumption at its current scope is quintessentially dependent on disproportionate government subsidies because otherwise the costs to breed, shelter, and harvest the animal in millions would be too extreme for affordable prices.

The consumer effectively absorbs a fraction of the caloric value of the cow, and the cow in turn absorbed a fraction of the caloric value of its feed. It is disproportionate.

The feed requisite to fatten cattle is multiple times the volume that would otherwise be required for direct consumption if the resources dispensed to feed the cattle were used for crops to feed us. Disproportionate.

To meet the demand for animal feed, ecologies are destroyed. If we consumed crops directly from the land that would otherwise be wielded to fatten cattle, much less land would be necessary. Disproportionate.

The demand for meat and associated products is so vast that the entirety of the animals farmed could not be processed in conditions even close to reconcilable with basic ethics or empathy. You cannot meet the demand remotely whilst maintaining a minimum of conditions. Disproportionate.

That is all that the carnivore diet is—disproportionate.

Vegans are bourgeois moralists, says the industrial predator with blood dripping from their mouth.

I skipped the red pepper jelly thanks to peer pressure. also because it was cold.

@lain I probably will just do the oysters dw

methinks crackers tonight with smoked oysters... and maybe red pepper jelly..

@dtluna @technolyze often as a form of misdirection

@lain thats true but its a mixed blessing because it often leads to vanity and pride and identification of the self with the body. so its a lower form of grace.

@lain often merited by karma I guess lol, but unmerited in this lifetime

@technolyze and if theyre not evil then they magically become beautiful

@nyx is this part of your internal alchemy training?

the incels are right about lookism and nothing else really. its a form of unmerited privilege the media will never seriously touch.

@subnetter @Critias food that deprives fewer beings of their lives is more ethical usually, and veganism is only novel because the problems with the modern milk and egg industry are so novel. but many jains (an ancient religion) are switching to veganism based on the ancient principle of ahimsa because cow milk is obtained far differently than it was in preindustrial times let alone vedic times. I'm not of the cohort who believes every relationship with animals where something is obtained is exploitation, but dairy farming which involves separation from and killing of calves and forced impregnation definitely is.

I refuse to call them "Red Delicious" because they are anything but delicious

@feld @ee @wikipedia thats fair but spergs gonna sperg

@Critias @subnetter never heard of the latter but shojin ryori in japan is also vegan (and they do eat mushrooms unlike many indian lacto-vegetarians).