Preemptively harassing others because you feel “attacked” is a fact-free shtick. Drop the projections.
You like meat, great! Don’t make it your personality. Environmental impact of the meat industry is well known and you don’t have to defensively-attack people who point it out.
You didn’t “give advice” to how to reduce environmental impact, you told people they should ignore environmental impact and clarified that pointing out the objective impact (as per the thread) hurt your feelings.
People aren’t telling you you’re “a bad person for eating meat”, that’s being constructed in your head to justify the compulsion to respond.
If you’re trying to add in how to eat meat more ethically, that wouldn’t have been taken as trolling because it wouldn’t be trying to swing wildly at perceived hippies attacking you for your “lifestyle”.
But the “ever tried EATING ANIMALS?!” gimmick isn’t cute or interesting or insightful, neither is the projected followup “how dare you criticize me just for eating animals! Apologize for this insolence!” response.
Anyhoo, I’m fine with restricting my consumption of meat to local butchers but while that’s a form of harm reduction, I’m still always nudging my spouse towards more consumption of whole foods, more veg, less meat.
They’re a fan of Impossible’s pea protein meat, which is getting better every year and fine for burgs but I’d rather try to figure out how to work with stuff that’s better for my body in general.
When it comes to veggie burgers, I’d rather just make from legumes, anyway.
Let me state first that I’m not suggesting anything about you here but I mean, it’s sort of a so what are you offering by sharing that with others?
Some persons use it as a nihilistic cudgel to claim some sort of virtue by being uncaring, some people use it to push the necessity of action.
We’re seeing the effects in our food infrastructure already pushed to extremes because of climate change, profit-seeking over sustainable agriculture, the remnants of unhealthy colonialist practices, and pandemic effects on top of the rest.
So yeah, it’s understandable for people to feel more powerless but is the person stating it because they want to connect with other similar minded persons, or does the person stating “lol we’re doomed” want to steep themselves in some cloak of self-righteousness, “independence” and rugged individualism for not giving a shit?
Venting about how fucked we can be if society doesn’t change is understandable, the internet nihilist arguebros are the only ones trying to reduce others into “sinners” and “saints”.
The rest of us are just trying to live!
