# To people who don’t eat animals

- Link: https://www.andreidraganescu.info/2017/09/08/to-people-who-dont-eat-animals/
- Published: 2017-09-08T11:21:43+03:00
- Author: Andrei Draganescu

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#### You are doing it wrong

The right way to not eat animals correctly is, behold:

> don’t eat animals

Whoa, imagine that. I mean, literally, that is all you have to do. But you’re failing
at it.

I am tired of [articles](https://medium.com/the-philadelphia-liberationist/to-those-i-love-who-still-eat-animals-9f97abdc3523)
eliciting this kind of self hatred that supposedly should make people stop eating
meat and animal byproducts.

Listen guys and gals, presenting the idea of eating a pork stake as a similar act
of cruelty to eating a fresh baby’s face chunks roasted in olive oil and with an
intro of toddler foie gras, is a horrible form of hate speech, and you are doing
it! _It is like you are trying very hard to stop loving meat. _Shouting at people
who eat animals that they serve _corpses_, is the nutritional equivalent of homophobic
speech from gay clerics: you love the D, but you so wish you didn’t, that you do
everything in your power, including ruining folk’s life, so that no one can enjoy
the D. How is that for a shitty comparison?

First, decide what you want to talk about. Are you explaining: dietary choices for
healthy living or animal rights or spiritual paths or what? Stop confusing things
so badly.

If you are a vegetarian because you don’t want to hurt animals, I think you need
to meditate more on this idea. This point is a horribly weak point to make. What
if humanity will print meat from artificial protein, meat that is 100% identical
to cow meat, then your vegetarianism is done?

If you are a vegetarian because you want to remove this bit of karma from your story,
you should meditate more on this idea too. How well does your dharma do today about
everything else?

If you are a vegetarian because you want to kill the horrible meat industry, you
are doing it wrong. The right way is to enroll in organizations that work with regulators
and raise funds to sue farms, processors, importers and exporters of animal food
which hurt and torture animals. The way we slaughter animals affects the quality
of food for everyone, and it is almost always an important figure in the expenses
of the food industry.

You should fight the fact that the price of meat is too low. Way too low. But your
abstinence and all the vegetarian abstinence in the world will never put a dent 
in the EBIDTA of the food industry corporations.

Are you a vegetarian who just wants to be healthy? Go for it, but remember that 
putting a healthy person on a higher moral ground than an unhealthy one is a dogmatic
habit which the not so holy church has done for hundreds of years. And, yes, you
are momentarily heading towards your death like everyone else. All the veganism 
in the world will not make you eternal, just maybe healthier than average. Also,
the average, contains a lot, a big lot, of unlucky sick people.

Promote responsible consumption. Lobby for hyper complete labeling and mandatory
pedigree of animal food ingredients. Pledge money for those who can enforce change,
such as taxing cheap meat producers who sell meat for indiscriminate processing.
There is so much to do, all better than telling people they “love joyfully gorging
on the murdered bodies of [children](http://www.aussieabattoirs.com/facts/age-slaughtered).”

Vegans and vegetarians are no better in any way, than people with omnivore dining
habits. But, oh my God, do they cling to that and tout their superiority non stop.

It is OK to preach healthy habits. It is more than welcome to try and push society
into a higher perspective, one about how far we go with our hedonism and fever for
growth. You are doing a great job in working for making healthy, guilt free food
more accessible, by say providing vegan recipes, inventing them, sharing them. You
are doing great for yourself by being a vegan or vegetarian or ovo-lacto-vegetarian,
or a vegetarian who eats fish, whatever suits you.

But when you step up to the mic and tell omnivore people that they commit murder
by eating sentient beings with feelings and family, when you call omnivore people
cannibalistic, when you hurt people by generalizing abuse as if it were absolutely
everywhere, when you elicit guilt in people by poisoning their plates with shame,
regret, doubt and fear, you are being a really, really, bad person. Even to yourself,
you’re doing far more damage than eating a cow’s baby or drinking a cow’s milk would
do.

If you dare playing the sensationalist card by claiming all milk is filled with 
pus, by equalizing all omnivore diet with pink slime or any other such gimmicks,
you are a Martin Shkreli of nutrition, because you play the one card you’ve got,
despite consequences. Stop doing this.

To my surprise the experience as a flexitarian who swings shamelessly from spiritually
abstaining from food, to indulging in consuming heavily processed fast food served
in dubious conditions, swinging from a million salads a month and no animal traces
in my kitchen to weeks of steak and white bread, well, this experience has nothing
to do with food.

This experience instead opened my world to the other people concerned with what 
they eat. And I was horrified. I am talking about SAW one to seven horror level.

Spiritual veganism and vegetarianism flooded my life with homophobic people, racist
and intolerant folk who made a new brand of shithead politics: Dietary Nazism. Amazingly,
the mixture of religiousness with diet habits created a fanatic human who wants 
to cleanse the world of all impurity, asap. Dangerous.

Hip vegans were basically deeply existentially hurt people who found meaning in 
their fucking diet. It is like everything the Earth has to offer to a briefly being
spirit, can be found in the stuff you shove down your throat. Delusional.

Warrior veganism are people who want to save the planet, to fix the world, to solve
all problems once and for all, and they have found the magic potion of Fix-it-all
to be in a fact-poisoned exclusively plant based diet. Demagogic.

People, please, I so hope this gets said by more and more of us:

### your diet does not make you a better human!

It is just your diet, stuff you eat.

Action! Creation! Communion! Stuff like that _maybe _could turn one into a better
human. The mere act of choosing what you eat is a smart way to take care of yourself,
that is about it.

### Stop slut shaming my dinner plate!

All those of _your loved ones _whom you assassinate with facts about chicks being
rolled alive into burritos, they are EATING YOUR HATE SPEECH. You make people more
sick by feeding them shame, guilt, regret, fear, anxiety, by pushing against them
harder and harder you are doing so much more harm than good.

Maybe, there will be some day when we all eat things that don’t harm any living 
creature or being, not first hand, not with any secondary effects, not the environment,
not the Planet. And I dream this future will enact itself. But this, this is not
a path to that future. You are ridiculing, indirectly, the correct path of creating
a good and stable framework for re-imagining nutrition, with sensationalist hate
filled stories of killed animals.