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The oyster thing is a bit of a meme at this point, considering I've seen the same thing about 5 times in the last month. For vegans, avoiding eating any animal
by colordrops 4y ago
The oyster thing is a bit of a meme at this point, considering I've seen the same thing about 5 times in the last month.
For vegans, avoiding eating any animal is easier than trying to discern which animals can truly feel pain. There are always updates to our understanding about what animals feel, and it's vastly easier to draw a line between kingdoms than to create some fractal border of which animals are ok to eat.
Also, people thought newborns didn't feel anything decades ago and performed circumcisions without anesthetic. There isn't a final word on how awareness and pain work and the nature and location of the seat of consciousness, so it's better to be conservative on this.
- Cerium 4y agoBesides - feeling pain is not the only reason people are vegan. I was vegan for about 15 years and it had nothing to do with how animals are kept or killed.
- colordrops 4y agoWhat was your reason for being vegan? And it sounds like you no longer are vegan, why the change?
- Cerium 4y agoI was vegan from when I was about 11 to 25. My family decided to try out vegan eating as a healthy choice, in part due to my dad's high cholesterol. We all felt more healthy and enjoyed the food we were eating. I gave it up when I started traveling to China. I decided that it was more important to me to be able to enjoy the rich culinary traditions and be a part of the communal culture than keep to my diet at the time.
- colordrops 4y agoLOL I was a vegetarian for 6 years then I moved to China and gave that up quickly. I'm now vegan, and I think I could go to China and make it happen now. But I lived there for a while so no longer have a desire to try everything.