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Anonymous
One HUGE issue for a lot of people when considering vegetarianism is the people they live with. Honestly, it's fucking HARD to maintain it in a household of meat-eaters. There's been two friends of mine whove both lived in a house of 4-5 people and tried going veggie, and only managed to keep it up for a year because it just became so hard. They would either have to cook their meals separately from others and hence miss out on pretty much every family meal, or their parents would have to cook two meals at once, putting heaps of stress on them. They just couldn't keep it up. I myself have considered vegetarianism, but living in a house with 4 other people, not to mention all the friends that are regularly staying over for dinner, it'd just be impossible to keep up and honestly not worth it in the end. I might give it a go when I move out, but basically when you have a family you live with, vegetarianism almost isn't an option.
Honestly, as much as I care about animal welfare, vegetarianism is incredibly low priority. Instead of encouraging vegetarianism, people should just start spreading awareness of how much better well-treated animals taste, and generally fighting against factory/general cruelty. And fuck, look at the awesome meals vegetarians get at school camps and during flights compared to the canned shit the rest of us get. There's a great angle right there. Get people to become vegetarian fliers, even if no where else, and you might save a good few chooks a year.
Promoting vegetarianism itself is just fucking annoying. It's a fucking HUGE lifestyle change that honestly isn't that damn important comparatively. It's a waste of time incessantly promoting it. Focus your energy elsewhere, where it'll actually do some good.
There are few things in this world more incessantly annoying than a haughty vegetarian. Honestly out of every 10 people they try and convert, at least 5 probably decide to become full blown carnivores out of spite.
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