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As one who does not care if the food i eat has meat in it, maybe i can clarify why people react like this. It's simple: you make me feel like i'm some sort of a heartless, evil person for eating meat, i will make you feel bad as well. Eating chicken is murder ? We humans are omnivores, we eat anything. Meat is less efficient land wise, but is more efficient to digest. Morals have nothing to do with it, as we have long evolved to be that way.
If you want people to eat more plants; my advice is to make it a better option. I often make myself a 100% plant pasta sauce, but that takes 3x longer to do and doesn't cost much less then just grilling a piece of meat and cutting a tomato or two. Make cheap tasty vegetarian fast food stalls, cheap mini markets, etc. Calling people murderers will make some of them hate you.
PS I have a vegetarian friend, for over a decade i didn't know he was. Respect his decision, has nothing to do with me.
May I request that you watch Dominion, a 2018 documentary about the farming industry. https://youtu.be/LQRAfJyEsko
If, after watching it, you still don't care about consuming animal products or not then fair enough. People seem so sure they already know how animals are farmed so they don't need to learn about it or watch this kinda thing, but I feel many people would be shocked to actually see with their own eyes that it's not 'happy cows living it up in green fields all day' like the farming industry would like us all to continue believing.
Many people who work in factory farms end up with all kinds of mental illnesses. Even those who are desensitised to the suffering of animals end up with PTSD and severe depression from contributing to this man-made animal hell.
My grandparents had pigs, chicken, goats, etc. And my father has farm animals. I'v also seen larger scale farming in my country. It's not so bad as what you are thinking of, here is not the usa. I know of what you want to show me. Maybe go watch Clarksons Farm for a different view ? Do what you want either way.
So have you seen Dominion already? I just find it hard to believe anyone can watch Dominion from start to finish and not be done with animal products forever, unless they lack any form of empathy.
I don't see how your family having farm animals has much relevance unless they keep them as part of an animal sanctuary where the animals can live out their lives in peace and safety, plenty of room to roam and live as they would like to live their lives? Were any of the animals' lives cut short so that they could be eaten? Were any of them ever forced to do something they didn't want to do? Did any of the animals that were slaughtered actually want to die?
When you say you've seen large scale farming in your country, was that in the slaughterhouses? All of the animals were treated with courtesy and respect? Never mistreated? Imagine for a moment that instead of animals being farmed, it was your family members being farmed.. would you feel that they were all being treated fairly and justly then? Being herded around and murdered in the prime of their lives so someone can enjoy a sandwich?
Animals have feelings and emotions just like human animals.. the way they feel things will be very similar to how we feel things, both pain and happiness amongst all the other types of feelings and emotions. Imagine again your family being stunned before being murdered, does that make the murder ok because they didn't suffer at the moment of death? Or perhaps you live in a country where you don't even need to stun the animal before killing, you can just hang them upside down and skirt their throat while they slowly die in agony.
I've seen a clip of Clarksons farm, it was something to do with him always feeling dread when it was time for his animals to be slaughtered. I'm assuming because even a complete buffoon like Clarkson knows deep down, it's wrong to kill animals.
Yea, one sided conversations usually don't go far. Have fun in your life.
I suspect you don't understand what a one sided conversation is, but ok, good luck and have fun with your life too.